LONDON (Reuters) – Climate activist Greta Thunberg was on Friday cleared of a public order offence as a judge ruled police had no power to arrest her and others at a protest in London last year. Thunberg stood trial with four other defendants who were arrested on Oct. 17 outside a London hotel, where the …
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By Amanda Ferguson and Padraic Halpin BELFAST/DUBLIN (Reuters) – Northern Ireland lawmakers are set to elect an Irish nationalist First Minister for the first time on Saturday, placing a member of the former political wing of the Irish Republican Army in charge of a region where it seeks an end to British rule. But Michelle …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s antitrust watchdog has launched an investigation into the $19 billion merger between Vodafone’s UK operation and CK Hutchison’s Three UK, reviewing whether the deal will hurt competition, it said on Friday. The tie-up announced last year will reduce the number of mobile networks in Britain from four to three. The Competition and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain handed a 1.85 billion pound ($2.36 billion) contract to French electronic defence company Thales on Friday to maintain the sonar and sensors on Royal Navy ships and submarines over the next 15 years. The deal will see Thales use artificial intelligence, data management and virtual reality to predict faults and cut …
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By Sachin Ravikumar and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British police were searching for a man suspected of injuring several people by throwing a corrosive chemical on them, while his status as someone who had been granted asylum after a sexual assault conviction added a political element to the case. Police said they were looking for …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling reversed course on Friday as the dollar strengthened after U.S jobs data to leave the pound set for its biggest weekly fall against the greenback in eight weeks. The British currency was last down 0.79% against the dollar at $1.2643, and set for a weekly fall of 0.45%, its most in …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A man has died after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery building in London, police said on Friday. The death is being treated as unexpected but is not thought to be suspicious, London’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Police were called to the Tate, one of London’s top tourist attractions, …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – Michelle O’Neill will become the new leader of Northern Ireland’s regional government on Saturday, the most significant milestone yet in the shift to a new generation of Irish nationalists not directly involved in the region’s decades-long bloody conflict. – O’Neill, 47, represents Sinn Fein, the former political wing of the Irish Republican …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police have arrested a woman in connection with the alleged escape from a London prison last year of a former soldier accused of offences relating to terrorism and the Official Secrets Act. Daniel Khalife escaped last September from Wandsworth prison by attaching himself to the underside of a food delivery truck, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni agreed to keep working together to deal with illegal migration by developing “innovative partnerships” along migration routes, Sunak’s office said. Both leaders have made reducing the numbers of illegal migrants coming to their countries a priority, and on a call on Friday …
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