LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Sunday arrested six people who are members of the Palestine Action protest group as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to disrupt the London Stock Exchange. The police alleged the activists had planned to target the LSE on Monday morning in an attempt to prevent the building …
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By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Manchester United were held to a 2-2 Premier League draw by Tottenham Hotspur at Old Trafford on Sunday in a disappointing result for Erik ten Hag’s team who twice took the lead but were pegged back by an aggressive performance from the visitors. Rasmus Hojlund’s early opener was cancelled …
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AKROTIRI, Cyprus (Reuters) – Pro-Palestinian activists protested at the gates of RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus on Sunday, angry that the British base was used as a launch pad for strikes against the Houthi militia in Yemen. U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines launched dozens of air strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen overnight Thursday …
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By Sergiy Karazy KYIV (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited wartime Kyiv on Friday to sign a new security agreement and announce an increase in military funding for Ukraine to buy drones, including surveillance, long-range strike and sea drones. Britain, one of Ukraine’s closest allies during President Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion, will increase …
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KYIV (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday signed a security accord between the two countries in Kyiv. Zelenskiy said it would remain in effect until Ukraine joined NATO, describing it as an “unprecedented security agreement”. “I am glad that we concluded the first agreement with the United …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain, which has had the strongest inflation among the world’s big rich economies for much of the past two years, could see its pace of price growth slow to below 2% before the United States and the euro zone, a consultancy said on Friday. Capital Economics said inflation in Britain could fall …
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By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Mohammed Ghobari WASHINGTON/ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – U.S. and British warplanes, ships and submarines struck across Yemen overnight in retaliation against Iran-backed Houthi forces for attacks on Red Sea shipping, a widening of regional conflict triggered by Israel’s war in Gaza. Witnesses confirmed explosions throughout Yemen, saying raids targeted a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Office for National Statistics said on Friday that it was delaying interim changes to improve the accuracy of its main data on unemployment for another month. Low response rates to the ONS’s main Labour Force Survey (LFS) mean that since July it has been extrapolating from previous unemployment data using separate …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The British government on Friday published a summary of its legal advice, which said its decision to strike Houthi military targets in Yemen was justified under international law. “The UK is permitted under international law to use force in such circumstances where acting in self-defence is the only feasible means to deal …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Acclaimed British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig has been charged by police in London with a child sexual offences, authorities said on Friday. Latham-Koenig, 70, was arrested at Victoria train station in London on Wednesday and charged the following day with arranging or facilitating a child sexual offence and sexual communication with a child, …
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