LONDON (Reuters) – British police charged a man with multiple counts of racially aggravated criminal damage on Thursday, after a series of anti-Muslim incidents last October and November at the office that serves Palestinian interests as well as mosques and businesses in the capital. Police said Jonathan Katan was arrested last November after red paint …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England allotted 14.444 billion pounds ($18.30 billion) of one-week funds in its short-term repo operation on Thursday, the largest usage of the facility since it launched in October 2022, after previous records were set in recent weeks. The BoE uses the weekly repo to help keep money market rates …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The editor of WikiLeaks denounced the British judicial system as crooked on Wednesday, days before a crucial court hearing which could end the legal battle by the organisation’s founder Julian Assange to stop extradition to the United States. Assange, 52, is wanted by U.S. prosecutors on 18 charges, all bar one under …
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By Pranav Kashyap, Purvi Agarwal and Sruthi Shankar (Reuters) -Britain’s FTSE 100 closed at an all-time high on Wednesday, lifted in part by housebuilder stocks buoyed by hopes of an interest rate cut, while Burberry’s shares sank after it reported a sharp fall in quarterly sales. The blue-chip rose 0.2% to close at 8445.80 points. …
By Huw Jones LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will do more to make regulators take the financial sector’s needs into account if they don’t apply their new competitiveness remit, UK financial services minister Bim Afolami said on Wednesday. There will be an update from regulators on how they are applying their new remit in coming months, Afolami …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s Pharmacy2U said on Wednesday it had cut the prices of weight-loss medication Wegovy and Mounjaro, becoming the latest in a slew of online pharmacies and slimming clinics to do so as initial supply shortages of the drugs ease in the country. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT The British market could provide a glimpse into …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Residents in part of Devon in southwestern England were warned on Wednesday to boil water before consuming it after the region’s water utility found traces of an intestinal parasite that can cause diarrhoea and vomiting. South West Water issued the notice to its customers in Alston and the Hillhead area of Brixham, …
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By Yadarisa Shabong (Reuters) -Royal Mail’s parent company International Distributions Services is set to agree a 3.5 billion pound ($4.42 billion) takeover by Daniel Kretinsky if the Czech billionaire tables a formal offer, the British firm said on Wednesday. Kretinsky’s investment vehicle EP Group sweetened its bid to buy the owner of one the world’s …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – The British government triggered emergency measures to release some criminals from prisons early and to delay the start of certain court hearings to prevent overcrowding in jails. The prison population in England and Wales has doubled in the last 30 years as a result of longer criminal sentences and …
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By Layli Foroudi and Ben Makori CARDIFF, Wales (Reuters) – When he took office as First Minister of Wales in March, Vaughan Gething became the first Black head of government in Europe – yet he believes UK society is more overtly racist than a decade ago. “On virtually every piece of social media that went …
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