LONDON (Reuters) – Music investor Hipgnosis Songs Fund cannot sue singer Barry Manilow in Britain in a dispute about a $1.5 million bonus payment, London’s High Court ruled on Thursday, but the fund can continue its case for some allegedly unpaid royalties. Hipgnosis last year brought a lawsuit in London against Manilow, 81, who just …
By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) – AstraZeneca has opened a plant to produce biogas from organic waste that will ensure by the end of this year all of its research and development and drug manufacturing in Britain is powered by clean energy, it said on Thursday. The plant, operated through a 15-year agreement between AstraZeneca …
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(Reuters) – A British lawmaker on Thursday won his appeal against a prison sentence for punching one of his constituents, though he still faces the prospect of being ousted from parliament and triggering an electoral test for the governing Labour Party. Mike Amesbury, the member of parliament for Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England, was …
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(Reuters) -Cypriot authorities were guilty of bias and victim-blaming in failing to investigate a British teenager’s gang-rape allegation against Israeli tourists in 2019, the European Court of Human Rights found on Thursday. The woman, then 18 and identified as “X”, reported being raped by Israeli youths in July 2019 in the resort of Ayia Napa. …
By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is inclined to approve the expansion of its second largest airport Gatwick, the government said on Thursday, over objections from environmentalists and during a push on infrastructure to drive economic growth. However, transport minister Heidi Alexander said the deadline for a final decision was pushed back to October …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) – London’s police force vowed on Thursday to reform its “stop and search” tactic which has seen far more Black people than others halted on streets and been criticised for enabling racism. The Metropolitan Police, Britain’s largest force, said the searches remained necessary to combat crime in the capital of …
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LONDON (Reuters) – An unknown artist has created a public mural in London of Luigi Mangione, the man accused of shooting and killing a U.S. health insurance executive in New York last year. The large portrait of Mangione was spotted under a railway bridge in Bethnal Green, east London, depicting the 26-year-old in a green …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Finance Minister Rachel Reeves said on Tuesday that other European nations must follow in her country’s footsteps and increase their defence spending. Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced earlier he would increase annual defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and target a 3% level last seen just after the Cold …
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By Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) -More than 1,000 musicians, including Kate Bush and Cat Stevens, on Tuesday released a silent album to protest proposed changes to Britain’s copyright laws, which could allow tech firms to train artificial intelligence models using their work. Creative industries globally are grappling with the legal and ethical implications of AI …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – The British and Irish governments will explore whether to have talks with paramilitary groups that are still active and involved in crime in Northern Ireland to encourage them to disband, Britain’s minister for the region said on Tuesday. While the 1998 Good Friday Agreement largely ended 30 years of sectarian violence and …
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