By Michael Holden and Jonathan Saul LONDON (Reuters) – A new exhibition comes to London this week aiming to bring to life the experience of Israeli hostages who have spent more than 100 days in captivity after their kidnap by Hamas militants on Oct. 7. Staged in a derelict building in east London and based …
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(Reuters) – Nottingham Forest and Everton face a points deduction after the clubs have been charged by the Premier League for a breach of their profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), the league said on Monday. Everton have already been handed a separate 10-point deduction this year over their finances in the 2020-21 season, which meant …
By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) on Monday said progress had been made in talks with the British government on restoring a power-sharing government in the region, but declined to give a timetable for a possible deal. Northern Ireland has been without a regional government for almost two years after …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain on Monday declared global Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir as a proscribed terrorist group, making it a criminal offence to belong to what it described as an antisemitic organisation. Britain’s proscription of the Sunni Islamist political group – which puts it on par with al-Qaeda or ISIS – will come into force from …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s train drivers will stage a fresh round of strikes in a long-running dispute over pay which will affect services across the country from Jan. 29-Feb. 6, the ASLEF trade union said on Monday. Drivers working across 16 train companies will stage one-day strikes at different times with an overtime ban set to …
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By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) – This year must mark an “inflection point” to decide the future of British defence, minister Grant Shapps said on Monday, setting out steps to better protect the nation against threats posed by a number of conflicts that are “likely to grow”. In a speech setting out his view that …
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By Joice Alves LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling slid on Monday in a risk-off trading day, ahead of a busy week for data with markets expecting Britain’s employment and inflation figures to provide clues on when the Bank of England (BoE) will start loosening monetary policy. With U.S. markets closed for a public holiday, European shares …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is set for an electoral defeat on a par with its heavy loss to the Labour Party in 1997, according to a YouGov opinion poll published in the Telegraph newspaper. Ahead of an election expected later this year, the poll predicted Labour was on course to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Job opportunities in London’s financial sector plummeted nearly 40% last year, recruiter Morgan McKinley said on Monday, as market turbulence and high inflation led employers to tighten their belts on costs. Available jobs in finance decreased by 38% in 2023 compared to the prior year, according to the firm’s London Employment Monitor, …
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By Suban Abdulla LONDON (Reuters) – Average asking prices for British homes made the strongest start to the year since 2020, according to a Rightmove survey on Monday that added to signs that the slowdown in the sector could be easing as demand picked up in January. The average price of homes put on sale …
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