EDINBURGH (Reuters) -Scotland rued a massive missed opportunity as they let a potential historic first win over New Zealand slip at Murrayfield on Saturday after fighting back to be level with the All Blacks 10 minutes from time. Scotland have not beaten the Kiwis in 120 years of tests between the nations but had a …
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(Reuters) -England must use Jude Bellingham’s intensity and fiery on-field behaviour to their advantage, manager Thomas Tuchel said after calling up the Real Madrid midfielder for next week’s World Cup qualifiers at home versus Serbia and away against Albania. Bellingham was left out of Tuchel’s squad for the 5-0 victory over Latvia last month, which …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Former British soccer player and coach Joey Barton was convicted on Friday of six counts of sending offensive social media posts to two ex-players and a broadcaster, though he was cleared of six more charges. Barton, 43, was charged over X posts sent to former England international Eni Aluko, former player-turned-pundit Lucy Ward …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A former Commerzbank analyst who made false allegations of sexual harassment by a female colleague in a British employment tribunal was jailed for 20 months on Friday for his “dishonest pursuit of undeserved damages”. Damilare Ajao briefly worked for the German lender in 2019 as a “know your client” analyst, conducting due diligence …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British man who offered then-defence minister Grant Shapps’ personal information to purported Russian spies was jailed on Friday for assisting a foreign intelligence service. Howard Phillips offered Shapps’ home address and phone number to two people he believed were Russian agents using the names “Sasha” and “Dima” who were in fact British …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Friday that they had arrested Brahim Kaddour Cherif, a convicted sex offender who had been mistakenly released from prison. The arrest of the 24-year-old Algerian in north London follows a spike in the number of prisoners being wrongly released, placing justice minister David Lammy and the government under increasing …
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LONDON (Reuters) -London’s police chief Mark Rowley said his force must undergo cultural change after another deeply critical report published on Friday cited systemic racism in how it deals with Black members of the public and its own staff. In her report entitled “30 Patterns of Harm”, human resources expert Shereen Daniels said the Metropolitan …
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BIRMINGHAM, England (Reuters) -Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli supporters demonstrated outside the politically-charged Europa League soccer match between Aston Villa and Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday and police made 11 arrests, but the game was played without major disruptions. The match, which the hosts won 2-0, at Villa Park, Birmingham was held under a massive …
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BERLIN (Reuters) -A British citizen suspected of helping obtain and store weapons for attacks on Israeli and Jewish institutions in Europe was arrested in London on a German arrest warrant earlier this week, German prosecutors said. Germany’s Federal Prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday that the man, named only as Mohammed A. for privacy …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British defence group BAE Systems on Thursday lost a bid to block staff from striking at two of its sites where Eurofighter Typhoon jets are partly produced and assembled. Members of Britain’s Unite union at BAE’s Warton and Samlesbury plants in Lancashire, northern England, last month voted to strike after rejecting a 3.6% …
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