Swiss chocolate maker Lindt misleads consumers about child labor, US lawsuit claims

Sales taxA sales tax is levied on retail sales of goods and services and, ideally, should apply to all final consumption with few exemptions. Many governments exempt goods like groceries; base broadening, such as including groceries, could keep rates lower. A sales tax should exempt business-to-business transactions which, when taxed, cause tax pyramiding.  holidays, designated periods…

Inside the U.S. race for drone delivery dominance

Image: Jamie Street/Unsplash The fourth in a series of extracts from Global Government Forum’s new study on future-proofing digital capability examines how a strong technical workforce alone is not enough – leadership is increasingly critical to digital delivery The Future-proofing government digital capability study, led by Kevin Cunnington, executive advisor at GGF and former director general of…

US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with Prime Minister of Iraq Ali al-Zaidi in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on July 14, 2026. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images The U.S. launched a fresh round of strikes on Iran early Wednesday morning, hours after President Donald Trump…

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Statement Why frontier AI matters for firms  Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve rapidly. Frontier AI models represent a step-change in capability, with significant implications for cyber security and operational resilience.   The cyber capabilities of current frontier AI models are already exceeding what a skilled practitioner could achieve, and at a significantly higher speed, greater…