LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reported 66,638 new COVID-19 cases and 206 deaths within 28 days of a positive test on Thursday, government data showed. Case numbers in the last seven days have fallen 25% compared with the previous seven days, while deaths have fallen 20% on the same measure. (Reporting by Paul Sandle; editing by …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Charles, who has tested positive for COVID-19 for a second time, recently met his mother Queen Elizabeth, but the 95-year-old British monarch is not displaying any symptoms, a palace source said on Thursday. Charles, 73, the heir to the throne, pulled out of an event in the southwestern …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Charles, who has tested positive for COVID-19, recently met his mother Queen Elizabeth, but the 95-year-old monarch is not showing any symptoms, a royal source said on Thursday. The source said the situation would continue to be monitored. (Reporting by Michael Holden; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
By Elizabeth Piper and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – Former British Prime Minister John Major accused his fellow Conservative Boris Johnson on Thursday of breaking COVID-19 lockdown laws and said he should resign if he is found to have deliberately misled parliament with his “brazen excuses”. Johnson is facing his gravest crisis since becoming prime …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British foreign minister Liz Truss told Russia on Thursday it should move its troops amassed on the border with Ukraine if Moscow is serious about wanting to use diplomacy to defuse the crisis. “I can’t see any other reason for having 100,000 troops stationed on the Ukrainian border apart from to threaten …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British minister for Europe James Cleverly said the government intended new sanctions legislation to come into force on Thursday which will enable it to target a broader range of Russian interests in response to aggression in Ukraine. Last month Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Britain planned sanctions legislation to give London new …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry said on Thursday he felt compelled to try to finish the work of his late mother, Princess Diana, in tackling HIV and the stigma around it, as he urged people to get tested for the disease. Diana famously shook hands with AIDS patients at a London hospital in 1987, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Anti-Semitic incidents in Britain reached a record high last year, driven by reaction to a rise in violence in Israel and Gaza, a Jewish advisory body said on Thursday. The annual report by the Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain’s estimated 280,000 Jews on security matters, found there had been 2,255 …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain ordered 1,000 troops to be on a state of readiness to provide support in the event of a humanitarian crisis caused by any Russian aggression, ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the leaders of NATO and Poland on Thursday. Johnson will go to Brussels and Warsaw to …
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LONDON (Reuters) -More than 50 people believed to have attended lockdown parties at British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Downing Street will be contacted by police to explain their involvement, officers said on Wednesday, as they considered widening their investigation. A statement from the Metropolitan Police said officers would start contacting people from the end of …
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