By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday he would have to take unpopular decisions, raising the possibility of “painful” taxes on the wealthy and spending cuts to try to fix Britain’s myriad of problems he blamed on Conservative misrule. In a speech in the rose garden of his Downing Street …
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(Reuters) – British shop prices fell in annual terms this month for the first time since October 2021, pushed down by summer sales of clothes and household goods, a survey showed on Tuesday. The British Retail Consortium said shop prices fell by 0.3% in August compared with the same month in 2023, after a 0.2% …
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By Wladimiro Pantaleone PALERMO (Reuters) -Italian prosecutors have placed under investigation the captain of the superyacht that sank off Sicily last week in a storm, killing British tech magnate Mike Lynch and six other people, one of the captain’s lawyers said on Monday. James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for …
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By Suban Abdulla and Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -In 1959, Trinidadian activist Claudia Jones organised a Caribbean carnival in St Pancras Town Hall in London in response to race riots, planting the seeds for Notting Hill Carnival, one of the world’s largest street parties. Revellers on Monday, the second day of this year’s carnival, said …
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By Johan Ahlander and Stine Jacobsen STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Swedish football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson, who became the first foreigner to lead the England national team, died on Monday at the age of 76. Eriksson, a charismatic coach who guided Swedish, Portuguese and Italian clubs to major trophies in the 1980s and 1990s before taking on the …
By Philip O’Connor STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Few who saw him play the game would ever imagine that Sven-Goran Eriksson would go on to put Swedish football on the map, but as a coach he did just that, winning major titles and managing England in a glittering, but complex career. Eriksson, who died on Monday at …
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ROME (Reuters) – Italian prosecutors have placed Captain James Cutfield under investigation over the deaths of Mike Lynch and six others after the British tech tycoon’s superyacht sank off Sicily last week, a judicial source told Reuters. The official, who asked not to be named, confirmed earlier reports in Italian media that New Zealander Cutfield …
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(Reuters) – England fast bowler Mark Wood has been ruled out of the test series against Sri Lanka due to a thigh injury and will be replaced by left-arm seamer Josh Hull, the England Cricket Board said on Sunday. Wood injured his right thigh during the first test at Old Trafford and the 34-year-old did …
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CAIRO (Reuters) – Hezbollah said on Sunday it had completed the “first phase” of its response to Israel’s killing of the group’s top commander in a strike on a Beirut suburb last month. Hezbollah added that it had hit 11 Israeli military sites, fired more than 320 rockets and sent drones flying into northern Israel …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -England were closing in on victory over a gritty Sri Lanka in the first test with the visitors on 204-6 in their second innings at the end of the third day at Old Trafford on Friday — a slender lead of 82. Angelo Mathews (65) and Kamindu Mendis (56 not out) led …
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