LONDON (Reuters) – The number of billionaires in Britain has fallen in 2025, The Sunday Times said on Friday in its annual compilation of the country’s richest people, adding that it was the biggest drop in billionaires since the list began in 1989. The newspaper’s Rich List 2025 was topped by businessman Gopi Hinduja, 85, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A Ukrainian man appeared in a London court on Friday to face charges of arson following a counter-terrorism investigation into a series of fires all linked to Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Roman Lavrynovych, 21, appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ court accused of three counts of arson with intent to endanger life over the three …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – The trial of former Northern Ireland politician Jeffrey Donaldson for historical sex offences has been provisionally scheduled to start on November 3, a court heard on Friday. The trial of the former Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader and his wife Eleanor was delayed in March after the court heard that Eleanor was …
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LONDON (Reuters) – U.S. singer Chris Brown has been arrested and charged with inflicting grievous bodily harm in connection with an alleged assault in February 2023, British authorities said on Thursday. Brown is slated to be presented before a magistrates’ court on Friday, London’s Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said in separate …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s proposed assisted dying law for terminally ill people will be debated in parliament on Friday, when lawmakers consider changes to the legislation, ahead of the next vote on whether to proceed with the historic law or scrap it. Lawmakers voted 330 to 275 in November in favour of allowing assisted dying, paving …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police said a 21-year-old Ukrainian man had been charged with arson following a counter-terrorism investigation into a series of fires in London, including at Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s private home. Police were called to reports of a fire in the early hours of Monday morning at the property in Kentish Town …
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TIRANA/LONDON (Reuters) – The British government is in talks with unspecified third countries about deals to send them migrants who have been refused the right to stay in Britain and run out of legal options to avoid deportation. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is under pressure to show he can control migration – an emotive subject …
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By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) -A yacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch and six others, was vulnerable to violent winds and was probably knocked over by gusts of more than 117 kilometres (73 miles) per hour, an interim UK report said on Thursday. The 56-metre-long (184-foot) Bayesian was …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – The British government is planning to make some immigrants living in the country wait up to five years longer to qualify for permanent settlement under Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plans to cut immigration numbers. The government announced migration reforms on Monday which would, among other measures, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will step up its efforts to tackle criminal networks across the Western Balkans that facilitate illegal migration, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday, days after he announced a major set of reforms to help reduce legal migration. Losing ground in the polls to Nigel Farage’s anti-immigration Reform Party, Starmer is …
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