(Reuters) -Britain and Indonesia have agreed to a 4 billion pound ($5.24 billion) maritime deal led by defence firm Babcock to build vessels for the Southeast Asian country, the British government said on Friday. “The boats will be built in Indonesia using British shipbuilding expertise, which will support 1000 jobs at home in the UK,” …
(Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 recovered ground on Friday, trimming earlier losses as increased expectations for Federal Reserve interest rate cuts improved global market sentiment, while investors now await next week’s UK budget announcement. The blue-chip index, however, ended the week down 1.7%, marking a steeper weekly decline than those seen in April when markets were …
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ROME (Reuters) -A British father denounced on Friday an Italian court decision to remove his three children from the off‑grid woodland home where they lived with him and his Australian wife, after the family came under scrutiny when they were poisoned by mushrooms. A juvenile court in the central city of L’Aquila ruled this week …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -A British former member of the European parliament and ex-leader of the populist Reform UK in Wales was jailed for more than 10 years on Friday after admitting taking about 40,000 pounds ($52,344) in bribes to make pro-Russian speeches and statements. Nathan Gill had pleaded guilty in September to eight …
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LONDON (Reuters) -An Afghan national on Friday pleaded guilty in an English court to raping a 12-year-old girl, British media reported. Ahmad Mulakhil admitted the rape of a girl under 13, which took place in Nuneaton, central England in July, when he appeared at Warwick Crown Court, the BBC reported. Mulakhil had previously denied the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Two teenagers pleaded not guilty on Friday to hacking charges over a 2024 cyberattack on London’s public transport body, with one of them also denying charges related to two health systems in the United States. Transport for London (TfL), which operates the British capital’s tube and bus networks with millions of journeys each …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he had yet to speak to Donald Trump after the U.S. president said he would sue the BBC for up to $5 billion over how the broadcaster wrongly edited a video of a speech he gave in 2021. Trump said on November 15 he would call Starmer, …
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By Joel Dubber PERTH (Reuters) -Australia trailed England by 49 runs on 123-9 at the end of an extraordinary opening day of the Ashes series on Friday at Perth Stadium, where bowlers had very much the upper hand and a remarkable 19 wickets fell. Mitchell Starc, spearheading the home attack in the absence of the …
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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -Britain plans to double the time most foreign workers must wait for settled status to 10 years, with exceptions for doctors and nurses, the government said on Thursday, adding that some illegal immigrants would face a 30-year wait. Political discourse in Britain has been dominated by a decade-old debate over …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson oversaw a toxic, chaotic and dithering response to the COVID pandemic, with a delay to locking the country down resulting in about 23,000 more deaths, a report by a public inquiry concluded on Thursday. Britain recorded more than 230,000 deaths from COVID, a similar …
