By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) -Shell reported on Thursday third-quarter profits of $6 billion that exceeded forecasts by 12% as higher liquefied natural gas (LNG) sales offset a sharp drop in oil refining and trading results. The results, together with a drop in debt and strong cash flow, could lift investor confidence in CEO Wael …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s communication regulator Ofcom has fined right-leaning GB News channel 100,000 pounds ($129,910) for breaking due impartiality rules relating to a programme featuring former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it said on Thursday. Ofcom said the broadcast in February did not include an “appropriately wide range of significant viewpoints” and gave Sunak a …
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(Reuters) – The FA wants to achieve equal access to soccer for girls in 90% of schools by 2028 and boost the number of female coaches in the game as part of its new strategy to grow women’s football, England’s governing body said on Thursday. “We have identified challenges that need to be met head-on …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Buffer zones will come into force on Thursday around all clinics and hospitals providing abortions in England and Wales, making it a crime to “intentionally or recklessly” influence a person’s decision and obstruct access to those services. Britain’s interior ministry, the Home Office, said in a statement the “safe access zones” would …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain has detected its first case of new mpox variant clade Ib, the country’s health security agency (UKHSA) said on Wednesday, adding that the risk to the population remained low. The clade Ib variant is a new form of the virus that was declared a global health emergency by the World Health Organization …
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(Reuters) – Masked individuals broke into the home of England test captain Ben Stokes this month when he was in Pakistan but his wife and children were in the house, he said on Wednesday. The burglary happened on Oct. 17 when England were playing the second test against Pakistan and Stokes said items including his …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier accused of passing sensitive information to people linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and of then breaking out of prison told jurors on Wednesday that he and his family were opposed to the Iranian government. Daniel Abed Khalife allegedly collected sensitive information between May 2019 and January 2022, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Rachel Reeves said in her first budget speech on Wednesday that a temporary five-pence cut in fuel duty would remain in place, saying it would be wrong to raise it amid a time of global uncertainty and a high cost of living. “I have today decided to freeze fuel …
LONDON (Reuters) – A teenager accused of murdering three young girls in a knife attack in northern England in July appeared in a London court on Wednesday charged with production of the deadly poison ricin and a terrorism offence. Axel Rudakubana is accused of killing girls aged between six and nine at a Taylor Swift-themed …
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By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) – Sixty years after director Stanley Kubrick’s movie “Dr. Strangelove” was released, a stage version of the black comedy has opened in London’s West End starring Oscar-nominated and BAFTA award-winning actor Steve Coogan. Like actor Peters Sellers in the original version of the Cold War farce, Coogan takes on …
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