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(Reuters) -Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, was greeted with a standing ovation at the Wimbledon tennis championships on Sunday, in her second public appearance this year while she undergoes treatment for cancer. Tennis fan Kate, patron of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club in Wimbledon, wore a bright purple dress as she strode …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s new government is preparing over 35 bills for the formal start of the parliamentary year on Wednesday and has put economic growth at the heart of its agenda, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said. Starmer, who ended 14 years of Conservative rule earlier this month with a sweeping election win for his …

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By Mark Gleeson BERLIN (Reuters) – Captain Harry Kane and his England teammates are desperate to banish the disappointment of losing the last European Championship final by overcoming Spain in Sunday’s decider in Berlin, and winning a first major trophy in almost 60 years. Kane is one of eight of the squad in Germany who …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara beat Australians Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson 6-7(7) 7-6(8) 7-6(11-9) in an absorbing men’s doubles final at Wimbledon on Saturday to clinch their first grand slam titles. The unseeded duo of Patten and Heliovaara started playing together only three months ago but ousted seeded pairs …

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(Reuters) – Ben Ainslie and Hannah Mills’ Great Britain SailGP team won season four of the Impact League for their sustainable efforts, with last campaign’s champions Denmark runners-up and Switzerland in third place. The Impact League, which tracks how SailGP teams reduce their carbon footprint, was judged on four new areas: climate action, accelerating inclusion, …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Kate, Britain’s Princess of Wales, will attend the men’s singles final at Wimbledon on Sunday, her office said on Saturday, set to mark her second public appearance since surgery six months ago revealed the presence of cancer. The 42-year old princess, who is undergoing preventative chemotherapy, is an avid tennis fan and is …

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s new Labour government plans to expand the early release of prisoners from September to tackle a jail overcrowding crisis which justice minister Shabana Mahmood said threatened to create “a total breakdown of law and order”. Prisons in England and Wales have space for only 700 more male inmates and …

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(Reuters) – Novo Nordisk’s popular diabetes treatment Ozempic could be tied to a lower risk of cognitive problems, according to an observational study published by researchers at Oxford University. The study, published in the Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine journal on Thursday, explored more than 100 million medical records of U.S. patients to see if Ozempic increased the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The children of Britain’s former finance minister, Jeremy Hunt, left welcome notes for Keir Starmer’s children at his Downing Street residence, a gesture that the country’s new prime minister said was “really sweet and thoughtful”. Starmer, who won a landslide election victory last week, has yet to move into his new home …

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