By Andrew MacAskill and Farouq Suleiman LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Thursday that he would not hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take place later this year. The comments are likely to end speculation that the prime minister will call …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an aircraft used by defence minister Grant Shapps to travel from Poland back to Britain, a government source and journalists travelling with him said on Thursday. According to a government source and journalists, the GPS signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Female acts will fill two of the three headline slots at Britain’s Glastonbury Festival for the first time in June when Dua Lipa and SZA top the bill alongside rock-band Coldplay, organisers said on Thursday. Country pop star Shania Twain will take the Sunday afternoon “legend” slot. British-Albanian Dua Lipa, whose hits …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday it had agreed a security package to protect the borders of the Turks and Caicos Islands – a British Overseas Territory – in response to the risk violence in Haiti could spread. The Turks and Caicos Islands are 200 miles (322 km) from Haiti, where a political and …
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By Natasha Mulenga LONDON (Reuters) – Model and photographer Pattie Boyd is selling handwritten lyrics and personal letters that reveal her relationships with late Beatle George Harrison and guitarist and singer Eric Clapton. Boyd, who turns 80 on Sunday, was married to both musicians, inspiring songs such as Harrison’s “Something” and Clapton’s “Wonderful Tonight” and …
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By Jonathan Cable LONDON (Reuters) – The Bank of England will start cutting borrowing costs in the third quarter although 40% of economists saw an earlier trim, according to a Reuters poll which showed it was more likely the first move is later than expected rather than sooner. That would put it roughly in step …
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(Reuters) -Drugmaker AstraZeneca said on Thursday it would acquire endocrine diseases-focused firm Amolyt Pharma for $1.05 billion in cash, in a bid to boost its rare diseases portfolio. France’s Amolyt, backed by investors including Danish drugmaker Novo Nordisk’s parent firm Novo Holdings and EQT Life Sciences, is currently in the late-stage development of a therapy …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Giant sequoias, the largest trees on Earth, are thriving in Britain, growing at a rate nearly equivalent to those found in their native range in the U.S. state of California, researchers said on Wednesday. Introduced to British country estates as a 19th century status symbol, there are now an estimated half a …
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(Reuters) – French train maker Alstom on Thursday said it plans to start operating its own passenger rail service across England and Wales from 2025. The company said it was partnering with consultancy SLC Rail to form a rail service between North Wales, Shropshire, the Midlands and London. An application would be submitted to Britain’s …
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(Reuters) – British oil major Shell’s CEO Wael Sawan’s total pay package in 2023 was 7.9 million pounds ($10.11 million), including an annual bonus of 2.7 million pounds, its annual report showed on Thursday. Sawan was appointed to the top job at Shell at the start of 2023, replacing Ben van Beurden, who received a …
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