By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – Electric vehicle (EV) battery startup Britishvolt said on Tuesday it will launch a Series C funding round with a starting investment of 40 million pounds ($54 million) from mining giant Glencore. Britishvolt said it aims to raise around 200 million pounds in the funding round, some of which will …
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By Clara Denina and Helen Reid LONDON (Reuters) -Glencore will set aside $1.5 billion for probes into bribery and market manipulation, which it expects to resolve in 2022, while announcing a $4 billion dividend payout as the prices of the materials it mines and trades continue to boom. The company, one of the world’s biggest …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The total number of people in work in Britain shrank in the last three months of 2021, when the Omicron COVID-19 wave swept Europe, and workers in Britain saw their earnings shrink when adjusted for inflation, official data showed. Employment was down by 38,000 in the October-to-December period, the biggest fall since the …
LONDON (Reuters) -A Russian invasion of Ukraine is highly likely, could be imminent and would pose a threat to Europe’s wider stability that emboldens aggressors around the world, Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday. Russia has more than 100,000 troops massed near the border of Ukraine. Russian political leaders deny Western accusations that …
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By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz heads to Moscow on Tuesday to meet President Vladimir Putin in a high stakes mission to avert war, with Russia’s largest trading partner in Europe warning of far-reaching sanctions if it attacks Ukraine. Scholz’s one-day trip, after visiting Kyiv on Monday, is part of frantic …
(Reuters) – British cyclist Mark Cavendish fell “quite heavily” in the penultimate fifth stage of the Tour of Oman but came away from the crash with relatively minor injuries, the 36-year-old said on Monday. The Briton, who is competing in his first race since suffering serious injuries in another crash in November, got back on …
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(Reuters) – British middle distance runner Laura Muir has called off her indoor season due to a back injury, the Olympic silver medallist announced on Monday. The 28-year-old, who finished second in the women’s 1,500 metres in Tokyo last year, said she suffered the injury “a few weeks ago” and added that she would be …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday agreed there was a crucial window for diplomacy and a chance for Russia to step back and avert disaster in Ukraine, Johnson’s office said after a call between the leaders. “They agreed there remained a crucial window for diplomacy and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to step back and avoid what he termed “a disastrous mistake”, as Russia masses troops on the border with Ukraine. “We are on an edge of a precipice but there is still time for President Putin to step back,” …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Monday reported 41,648 new cases of COVID-19 and 35 deaths further deaths within 28 days of a positive test, government statistics showed. Cases over the last seven days are down 30% on the previous week, with weekly deaths down 27.2% compared to the previous seven days. (Reporting by Alistair Smout)
