By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -A British junior minister was sacked by Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Saturday and suspended from the governing Labour Party over WhatsApp messages which the minister said were “badly misjudged”. Andrew Gwynne, who was a health minister, apologised on social media platform X following a report by the Mail on …
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By Catarina Demony and Hannah Ellison LONDON (Reuters) – Hamid Ali Jafari says he feels his father’s presence every time he walks or drives past London’s Grenfell Tower, where the 82-year-old died in a devastating blaze more than seven years ago. The fire ripped through the 23-storey social housing block early on June 14, 2017, …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian police have opened a criminal investigation into an alleged assault on a freelance journalist by a person believed to be an employee of the British embassy, the Russian interior ministry said on Friday. It said the journalist, a 23-year-old woman, had complained to police that she had suffered “physical and moral injury” …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A former British government contractor appeared in a London court on Friday charged with making “damaging disclosures” about national security. Juan Joseph, 42, is charged with two offences under the Official Secrets Act in November 2024 and January this year. The charges allege he made a damaging disclosure of information relating to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain supports the independence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has no plans to sanction its officials, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said on Friday. The spokesperson was asked about the ICC after U.S. President Donald Trump authorised economic and travel sanctions targeting people who work on ICC investigations of U.S. …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s security officials have ordered that Apple create a so-called ‘back door’ allowing them to retrieve all the content any Apple user worldwide has uploaded to the cloud, The Washington Post reported on Friday citing people familiar with the matter. The iPhone maker is likely to stop offering encrypted storage in the UK, rather …
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(Reuters) – Liverpool will not get carried away by lofty expectations of winning a quadruple this season, captain Virgil van Dijk said after his side thrashed Tottenham Hotspur 4-0 at Anfield to set up a League Cup final clash with Newcastle United. Van Dijk completed the rout with a header after goals from Cody Gakpo, …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Thousands of victims of modern slavery are being denied support because of Britain’s crackdown on illegal migration, according to more than a dozen sources, a decade after the approval of legislation that put the country at the forefront of the global fight against human trafficking. Britain’s Modern Slavery Act …
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LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) -Holders Liverpool punched their return ticket to Wembley and a League Cup final against Newcastle United after a 4-0 rout, and 4-1 aggregate victory, over a toothless Tottenham Hotspur at Anfield on Thursday. The runaway favourites took the lead, to overturn a 1-0 first leg deficit against the injury-depleted visitors, when Cody …
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LIVERPOOL, England (Reuters) – Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou said last year that he always wins something in his second season but Liverpool made that assertion sound hollow after a League Cup semi-final thrashing on Thursday. Taking a 1-0 first-leg lead to Anfield, Spurs were crushed 4-0 to exit 4-1 on aggregate and without a …
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