LONDON (Reuters) – Stopping British arms sales to Israel if it launches a ground assault on Rafah in the Gaza Strip would strengthen Hamas, Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron said on Sunday. Israel ordered Palestinians to evacuate more of the southern city on Saturday in an indication it was pressing ahead with its plans for …
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LONDON (Reuters) – With two games remaining in their quest for a first Premier League title in 20 years, Arsenal are embroiled in a neck-and-neck battle with holders Manchester City — and it’s a position manager Mikel Arteta said he would gladly have taken when the season kicked off. “I would have taken the pen …
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(Corrects headline and paragraphs 1 and 3 to show the case was not badly damaged) LONDON (Reuters) -Two climate protesters aged 82 and 85 attempted to smash the reinforced case holding an original text of the Magna Carta in the British Library in London on Friday before the pair – one an Anglican priest – …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William said on Friday his wife Kate was “doing well” in a rare public comment about the Princess of Wales as she undergoes preventative chemotherapy for cancer. Kate announced in March she was having treatment after cancer was found following abdominal surgery she underwent at the start of the year. …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Four men will go on trial next year accused of setting fire to a London commercial property linked to Ukraine, an arson attack allegedly paid for by Russian intelligence, a British court heard on Friday. They were charged last month over the fire at a commercial premises on an industrial estate in …
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By Iain Withers LONDON (Reuters) – London’s Canary Wharf financial district is considering a radical redesign of one of its largest office towers that could include apartments or hotel space once tenant HSBC leaves, sources told Reuters, in a sign of the wider rethink that awaits the global office market. Landlord Canary Wharf Group (CWG) …
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(Reuters) – British trade union Community on Thursday said more than 85% of its 3,000 members across all Tata Steel UK production sites have voted for strike action against the company’s job cut plans. Tata Steel in January said it would close two blast furnaces at its Port Talbot steelworks in Wales, leading to the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt said figures showing Britain was no longer in recession were proof that the economy has turned a corner. “It has been a difficult few years, but today’s growth figures are proof that the economy is returning to full health for the first time since the pandemic,” he …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – The ringleader of an extreme body modification conspiracy who cut off men’s genitals and uploaded videos to his “Eunuch Maker” website was jailed for a minimum of 22 years in a London court on Friday. Norwegian Marius Gustavson was involved in several highly dangerous procedures which included removing the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles joked he had been “allowed out of his cage” on Thursday as he visited a military training college on his latest engagement since returning to public duties after his cancer diagnosis. “I do apologise for taking you by surprise, but when this opportunity appeared and I had been allowed out …
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