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(Reuters) -Mark Cavendish will compete in his final professional race at the two-day Tour de France Criterium in Singapore on Sunday, the British cyclist said on Saturday, bringing down the curtain on his glittering career. Cavendish, the world’s most decorated sprinter, announced his retirement last year before reversing that decision and breaking the all-time record …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Two survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at the close of an Ariana Grande concert seven years ago were on Friday awarded 45,000 pounds ($58,212) in damages after successfully suing a conspiracy theorist who claimed the attack was staged. Martin Hibbert was paralysed from the waist down and his daughter …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s energy market regulator on Friday proposed new regulations for grid companies to cut down the backlog of renewables projects waiting to connect to the grid. In a consultation document, Ofgem said projects waiting to be connected has reached more than 730 gigawatts, well above the 220-225 GW of generation projects the …

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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Friday named Jonathan Powell, who was chief of staff to former prime minister Tony Blair, as its national security adviser, a role that will involve responding to global threats and building ties with Donald Trump’s new U.S. administration. Powell, who also served as a diplomat in Britain’s Foreign …

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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Three people have been charged in relation to One Direction singer Liam Payne’s death in a fall from his Buenos Aires hotel balcony last month, Argentine authorities said on Thursday. The 31-year-old’s death shocked the world, and raised questions about how he had fallen. A 911 call from a hotel employee …

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