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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 issued an alert branding a woman a Chinese agent possibly to detract attention from a COVID lockdown party scandal involving former Prime Minister Boris Johnson, a tribunal in London heard on Monday. In January 2022, MI5 sent out an alert notice about lawyer Christine …

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(Reuters) -Standard Chartered on Monday lost a bid to cut from a London lawsuit allegations that it broke U.S. sanctions against Iran in a more widespread way than it has previously admitted. More than 200 investors are suing Standard Chartered at London’s High Court for allegedly untrue statements about its sanctions non-compliance between 2007 and …

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(Reuters) -Home improvement retailer Kingfisher Plc on Monday named British Land finance chief Bhavesh Mistry as its next CFO to replace Bernard Bot who will retire. British Land in a separate statement said that Mistry has a 12-month notice period and a date for his departure will be agreed. Kingfisher said Bot is scheduled to …

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By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – Britain’s manufacturers want the next government to deliver a formal industrial strategy and forge closer trade ties with the European Union, according to a survey published by the sector’s own trade body on Monday. Make UK said these two issues were top priorities for a majority of the more than …

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By Andy Bruce (Reuters) – Asking prices for British homes coming to the market were flat this month, adding to signs of a recent cooling off in the housing market upswing, a survey from property market website Rightmove showed on Monday. The company said the average asking price was 375,110 pounds ($475,827) for property put …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The three young children of British heir-to-the-throne Prince William and his wife Kate released a Father’s Day message and photograph on Sunday, saying “We love you, Papa”. The photo shows the three children, Prince George, 10, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6, hugging William on a beach, with the photograph taken …

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By Lori Ewing WEIMAR, Germany (Reuters) – If Gareth Southgate is feeling the pressure of delivering England’s first European Championship in what many have speculated could be his final major tournament in charge, the 53-year-old manager is not showing it. The Three Lions play Serbia on Sunday in Gelsenkirchen in a Euro 2024 that could …

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