LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Britain’s Duke of Marlborough, a distant relative of Winston Churchill, has been charged with three counts of intentional strangulation, British police said on Wednesday. Charles James Spencer-Churchill, 70, was arrested in May last year over the alleged offences which took place in November 2022, and in January and May 2024 …
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By Marissa Davison and Catarina Demony LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Doctors in England began a five-day strike on Wednesday over pay and working conditions during a surge in flu cases and with no end in sight to an increasingly bitter dispute with the government. The walkout is the latest in a series of strikes …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Andrew R.C. Marshall MANCHESTER, England, Dec 17 (Reuters) – Adam didn’t set out to expose what he calls Britain’s “broken asylum system.” About four years ago the 32-year-old started working in one of hundreds of hotels being used to house asylum seekers because, he said, he wanted to help them settle …
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LONDON, Dec 17 (Reuters) – British police said they had charged a 15-year old boy with murder on Wednesday, following the death of a nine-year-old girl in southwest England. The girl, Aria Thorpe, died on Monday as a result of a single stab wound, police said a post-mortem examination had found. The 15-year old boy, …
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By Jack Queen Dec 16 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has sued the BBC for at least $10 billion in damages after the British broadcaster edited a speech to make it look like he encouraged supporters to storm the Capitol. Here is a look at the case: WHY IS TRUMP SUING THE BBC? Trump …
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By Jack Queen and David Thomas Dec 15 (Reuters) – President Donald Trump sued the BBC for at least $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems untrue or …
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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Two British-Lebanese men appeared in a London court on Tuesday, charged with belonging to the banned Iran-backed group Hezbollah and attending terrorism training camps, with one of the two accused of helping procure parts for drones. Annis Makki, 40, is charged with attending a terrorist training camp at the Birket …
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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – Britain ordered a review on Tuesday into foreign financial interference in politics, following the conviction of a former member of the right-wing Reform UK party for taking bribes to promote Russian interests in the European Parliament. Nathan Gill, a former Reform UK leader in Wales and former European lawmaker, was …
LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – A British man who injured more than 130 people by ploughing his car into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans during May’s Premier League victory parade was jailed for 21-and-a-half years on Tuesday, after admitting 31 criminal charges over the incident. Paul Doyle drove into the mass of fans – …
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LONDON, Dec 16 (Reuters) – British police said on Tuesday they had arrested a teenage boy on suspicion of murder after the death of a nine-year old girl at an address in south west England. Police were called to the house in Weston-super-Mare on Monday evening, where paramedics were treating the girl, who was pronounced …
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