(Reuters) -Everton have been sold to 777 Partners, the struggling Premier League club said on Friday, with the U.S. private equity firm taking over from Farhad Moshiri in a deal reports said was worth more than 550 million pounds ($685 million). The Miami-based investment fund said it had signed an agreement with British-Iranian billionaire Moshiri …
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By Lori Ewing (Reuters) – Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp hopes his squad can pick up the momentum they had before the international break when they play Wolverhampton Wanderers at Molineux on Saturday, despite being without injured defender Trent Alexander-Arnold. Liverpool are third in the Premier League with 10 points from four games in one of …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British train drivers will stage two more says of strikes, their trade union said on Friday, the latest walkouts in a long-running industrial dispute and which will coincide with the governing Conservative Party’s annual conference. Passengers in Britain have faced severe disruption to their travel since last year as transport workers seek better …
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By Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Friday American XL bully dogs would be banned by the end of the year after a man was killed in another suspected attack on Thursday. The announcement came less than a week after one of the stocky, muscular dogs was involved in an …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The absence of European football will help Chelsea cope with their long list of injuries, Mauricio Pochettino said on Friday, but the Argentine manager added he was confident the Premier League club will return to continental competition next season. Chelsea, the 2021 Champions League winners, endured a turbulent campaign last season and …
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By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is to pump 500 million pounds ($621 million) into Tata Steel to decarbonise its Welsh site, in a deal aimed at securing the future of the country’s steel industry but which puts as many as 3,000 jobs at risk. The 1.25 billion pound total funding package for Britain’s biggest …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Friday imposed sanctions on four Iranian officials to mark the first anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police. The sanctions target senior decision makers enforcing Iran’s mandatory hijab law and were coordinated with similar moves by the United States, Canada and Australia, Britain’s …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Friday officially proscribed the Russian mercenary Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, after announcing the move last week, which will make it illegal to be a member or to support it. (Reporting by Michael Holden and Farouq Suleiman, writing by Muvija M; Editing by Sachin Ravikumar)
By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – The India Club, a historic London curry house with links to India’s freedom struggle, will close its doors for the last time on Sunday after failing to stop a hotel redevelopment plan. With a non-descript entrance up a precipitous stairway on a busy stretch of The Strand in central …
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By John Irish and Alistair Smout PARIS/LONDON (Reuters) -Britain, France and Germany said on Thursday they would retain ballistic missile and nuclear proliferation-related sanctions on Iran that were set to expire in October under the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a step that could provoke Iranian retaliation. Reuters first reported in June that European diplomats had …
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