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LONDON (Reuters) – British radical Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary has been charged with three terrorism offences after being arrested in London last week, police said on Monday. Choudary, 56, has been charged with membership of a proscribed organisation, directing a terrorist organisation and addressing meetings to encourage support for a proscribed organisation, police said. He …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Vodafone reported an acceleration in first-quarter top line growth on Monday, driven by strong demand in Britain and improvements in Germany, Italy and Spain, marking a positive start for new chief executive Margherita Della Valle. The European and African telecoms group also said it had appointed former SAP chief financial officer Luka Mucic …

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(Reuters) – Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Monday that it had found traces of explosives on a ship travelling from Turkey to the port of Rostov-on-Don in Russia to pick up grain. The FSB said the ship had been docked in the Ukrainian port of Kiliia in May, and that it may have …

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Australia retained the Ashes after the fourth test at Old Trafford was drawn on Sunday with no play possible on day five due to rain, leaving England trailing 2-1 in the series with one match to play. England needed to take five more wickets in Manchester on the final day of a …

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By Lori Ewing BRISBANE, Australia (Reuters) – England’s women’s soccer team opened their Women’s World Cup campaign with a 1-0 victory, but the general consensus was the fourth-ranked Lionesses were lucky to escape Lang Park with three points on Saturday, failing to find any finishing finesse. England’s rusty performance drew negative reviews. “It was really …

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Marnus Labuschagne scored his 11th test century to frustrate England before falling to Joe Root as Australia reached 214-5 on a rain-hit day four to leave the fourth Ashes test delicately poised going into the final day. Though fears of a washout did not come to pass, the start was significantly …

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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – The start of play was delayed on the fourth day of the fourth test between England and Australia at the Old Trafford stadium in Manchester on Saturday due to rain. The outlook for the rest of the day is bleak, with Britain’s Met Office predicting high chances of precipitation throughout the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The failure of Britain’s Labour Party to take former Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s old parliamentary seat in an election this week shows the opposition party still has a long way to go to win power, leader Keir Starmer said on Saturday. Labour won a once safe Conservative parliamentary seat in northern England …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William and his wife Kate have published a new photograph of their eldest son George to mark his 10th birthday on Saturday. The photograph, taken in Windsor earlier this month by Millie Pilkington, shows George smiling at the camera as he sits on some stone steps, wearing a checked shirt …

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