(Reuters) -England captain Harry Kane will miss Thursday’s friendly against Wales at Wembley due to an ankle injury that kept him out of team training on Wednesday, manager Thomas Tuchel said. The Bayern Munich striker suffered a knock in the closing stages of last weekend’s Bundesliga win over Eintracht Frankfurt and trained away from the …
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By Michael Holden and Sam Tabahriti LONDON (Reuters) -The man whose attack on a synagogue in northern England last week resulted in the deaths of two Jewish worshippers phoned police minutes afterward to say he was acting for Islamic State, investigators said on Wednesday. Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent, made the …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) -Prime Minister Keir Starmer rejected on Wednesday accusations that Britain tried to appease China by dropping a prosecution against two men accused of spying for Beijing, saying the decision was based on legal constraints, not political motives. In an unexpected move, British prosecutors last month dropped charges against the men …
By James Davey DOVER, England (Reuters) -Britain’s Port of Dover is confident the EU’s new biometric border checks will not result in traffic congestion in the peak summer season despite warning it will take six times longer to process each car, its boss said on Wednesday. On Sunday, the European Union will start to phase …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Two men plotted an Islamic State-inspired attack on the Jewish community in northwest England with the aim of “killing hundreds of innocent people”, British prosecutors said on Wednesday at the start of their trial. Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, are charged with preparing terrorist acts, while Walid Saadaoui’s brother Bilel Saadaoui, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The mother of missing British toddler Madeleine McCann said in court on Wednesday a woman accused of stalking her for over two years made her feel distressed and “invaded” by approaching her at her house and claiming to be her daughter. Kate McCann – whose daughter disappeared in May 2007, nine days short …
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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A British man pleaded guilty on Tuesday in New York to involvement in a nearly $100 million fraud whose victims invested in loans meant for fictitious wealthy wine collectors whose wine also did not exist. James Wellesley, 59, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy before U.S. District Judge Pamela …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British police said on Tuesday that they had arrested two people on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail following a cyberattack on a London childcare company in which data on more than 8,000 children was stolen. The hackers declined to say how much money they were demanding from Kido International, which operates 18 …
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(Corrects name of lawyer from Doyle to Royle in paragraph 11) LONDON (Reuters) -Nigel Farage, the leader of the populist Reform UK party which leads opinion polls in Britain, told a court on Tuesday an Afghan migrant’s TikTok video about him while making apparent gun gestures was “chilling”. Fayaz Khan, a 26-year-old Afghan national, is …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Tuesday that regulatory expert Richard Monks had been appointed as chief executive of the newly established Independent Football Regulator (IFR), tasked with overseeing governance and financial sustainability in English soccer. Monks, a former executive at EY and the Financial Conduct Authority, will lead the independent regulator as it begins implementing …
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