LONDON (Reuters) -A father and daughter who survived a bombing that killed 22 people at the close of an Ariana Grande concert seven years ago won their harassment lawsuit on Wednesday against a conspiracy theorist who claimed the attack was staged. Martin Hibbert was paralysed from the waist down and his daughter Eve, then 14, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will train hundreds of school teachers and invest 3.5 million pounds ($4.54 million) into ethnically diverse areas as part of a four-year plan to boost participation, the governing body said on Wednesday. The ECB aims to support the provision of free cricket in 500 state …
LONDON (Reuters) – Waheed Alli, the British Labour Party donor at the centre of a row over Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other politicians accepting freebies, breached parliamentary rules when he failed to declare certain interests, an investigation found. Alli, who sits as a Labour member in parliament’s upper House of Lords, should write a …
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By James Redmayne APIA, Samoa (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles and Queen Camilla flew into Samoa late on Wednesday, for a visit during which the monarch will be offered the title of high chief and attend a summit of Commonwealth nations, following a six-day tour of Australia. Prime Minister Fiame Naomi Mata’afa welcomed the royal couple …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) will block Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug donanemab on Wednesday, deeming it too expensive for NHS patients, the Telegraph reported on Tuesday. British regulators are expected to declare the drug safe for use on Wednesday, but the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which decides what drugs are …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A Black man shot dead by a British police officer in London two years ago was the gunman in a nightclub shooting days before he was killed, it can be reported after a judge lifted reporting restrictions on Tuesday. Chris Kaba, 24, who was unarmed, died from a single gunshot to the …
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By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -British public borrowing in the first six months of the tax year came in higher than official forecasts, according to data that underscored the challenge facing finance minister Rachel Reeves in her first budget next week. Borrowing hit 79.6 billion pounds ($103.5 billion) between April and September – almost 7 …
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By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles was embraced by an Indigenous elder after a welcome smoking ceremony on Tuesday in the birthplace of Australia’s urban Aboriginal civil rights movement in Sydney, a day after being heckled by an Indigenous senator in Canberra. Charles met Indigenous elders at the National Centre of Indigenous Excellence …
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(Reuters) – Glasgow was confirmed as host of the 2026 Commonwealth Games on Tuesday, the Scottish city stepping in after the Australian state of Victoria withdrew due to cost concerns, with organisers set to deliver a pared-down edition of the multi-sport event. Among the sports to be axed from the programme are badminton, cricket, hockey …
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – King Charles visited a skin cancer clinic in Sydney on Tuesday where he met cancer survivors and researchers working on cures for the disease. The visit to the Melanoma Institute Australia was one of the final public appearances Charles made on his 16th official visit to the country, his first major overseas …
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