LONDON (Reuters) -Climate activist Greta Thunberg was charged by British police on Wednesday after she and others were arrested at a protest outside a London hotel where an oil and gas conference was taking place. Thunberg was charged with a public order offence for failing to comply with conditions that police said had been imposed …
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By Joanna Plucinska LONDON (Reuters) -Airline executives on Wednesday called on Britain to draft new rules to allow carriers to share responsibility with air traffic control and airports for any disruptions to flights so the burden of paying out customers doesn’t fall solely on them. “There has to be recourse for airlines … We can’t …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A man who British police believe ran an operation involved in smuggling 10,000 people to the United Kingdom as part of a pan-European network has been jailed for 11 years in Belgium, Britain’s National Crime Agency said on Wednesday. Hewa Rahimpur, 30, who was originally from Iran, ran the network from his …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s biggest food bank network warned on Wednesday it was expecting its worst ever winter, with over 600,000 people likely to need support as a cost-of-living crisis now in its second year curtails spending power. The Trussell Trust, which supports a network of 1,300 food bank centres across the United Kingdom, said …
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Tuesday any of its citizens wishing to leave Israel on a government-arranged flight should make a booking before 0900 GMT on Wednesday, an update on the foreign office’s travel advice website said. Britain said more than 900 people had been transported home from Israel on the government-organised flights since …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will not be seeking a global framework on artificial intelligence for countries to sign up to at its upcoming global summit, Times Radio on Tuesday, citing an interview with culture and digital minister Michelle Donelan. (Reporting by William James and Farouq Suleiman)
By Kirstin Ridley and Nell Mackenzie LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s markets regulator needs to properly tackle rife sexism and misogyny in London’s financial industry by clearly defining bad behaviour and helping alleviate the “fear factor”, lawmakers were told on Tuesday. Helena Morrissey, a banker and equality campaigner, called for an independent review as she gave …
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By Sam Tobin LONDON (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s decision to declassify evidence given by ex-British spy Christopher Steele over the former U.S. president’s alleged links with Russia led to the disappearance of two sources, Steele said in court documents made public on Tuesday. Steele said in a witness statement that Trump’s decision to declassify his …
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By Toby Melville LONDON (Reuters) -Climate activist Greta Thunberg was detained by police in London on Tuesday, a Reuters witness reported, after she and others protested outside an oil and gas conference, preventing some delegates from attending. Thunberg, who became the face of young climate activists worldwide after staging weekly protests in front of the …
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(Reuters) – Accounting firm KPMG is planning to cut about 100 jobs in its deal advisory business in the UK, a source told Reuters on Tuesday. The layoffs will impact closer to 6% of the 1,700-strong KPMG deal advisory team in the UK, the source said, adding that the move was due to lower client …
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