LONDON (Reuters) – Britain vowed on Thursday a former army soldier suspected of terrorism offences who escaped from a prison by hiding under a food delivery van, would be found, as it promised an urgent inquiry into how he had been able to go on the run. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, is believed to have …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will require social media companies to take action to stop child abuse on their platforms, and if necessary work to develop technology to scan encrypted messages as a last resort, technology minister Michelle Donelan said on Thursday. Platforms including Meta’s WhatsApp and Signal have been fighting Britain’s Online Safety Bill, which is …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Five former London police officers on Thursday admitted sending grossly offensive racist messages to each other on WhatsApp, which included references to Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, and other members of the royal family. The five officers, who have all retired, were charged after an investigation by BBC’s Newsnight programme which discovered …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain recorded its hottest day of the year so far on Thursday, the country’s national weather service said, with provisional data showing a high of 32.6 degrees Celsius (90.7 degrees Fahrenheit) in south east England. This year’s previous high was 32.2 C, which was reached twice in June, the Met Office said, …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faces another difficult vote to fill a vacant seat in parliament after a lawmaker suspended for groping two men at a London club last year resigned. Chris Pincher, who sat as an independent for more than a year after being sanctioned by …
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By Maggie Fick LONDON (Reuters) -British health and beauty chain Superdrug said on Thursday that the amount of weight-loss drug Wegovy it has so far received is “a very small fraction” of what would be needed to fulfil its swelling waiting list. More than 20,000 people had registered an interest in buying Wegovy from Superdrug …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British police said they had issued an urgent appeal to find a former soldier suspected of terrorism offences who went on the run after escaping from a London prison on Wednesday. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, who was being held in prison while he awaited trial, is believed to have escaped from HMP Wandsworth …
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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -Britain said on Thursday it would rejoin the European Union’s flagship Horizon science research programme, ending a two-year post-Brexit standoff with the bloc over science funding. The agreement, which excludes the EU’s Euratom nuclear research scheme, signals a further improvement in bilateral relations seven months after a row over trade …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Staff at 140 universities across Britain will take five days of strike action later this month in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, the University and College Union said on Wednesday. The UCU said it had also now withdrawn a marking and assessment boycott that has been running since April …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s statistics office requested earlier access to key economic data on Wednesday, a few days after it sharply revised its estimate of the size of the economy at the end of 2021 which caught many analysts by surprise. A senior official at the Office for National Statistics asked Britain’s statistics regulator to …
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