By Alistair Smout, David Milliken and David Lawder LONDON/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – New British finance minister Rachel Reeves will spell out on Monday the scale of the public finances mess she says she has inherited, potentially paving the way for tax rises that critics say she could have been more candid about before the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s new government said on Friday it was dropping its predecessor’s query of the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to issue an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ICC’s chief prosecutor has requested warrants for Netanyahu and his defence minister, Yoav Gallant, on suspicion of war crimes, infuriating Israel and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Former government ministers Mel Stride and Robert Jenrick have entered the race to become the next leader of Britain’s Conservative Party, which lost power after 14 years at this month’s election. Former prime minister Rishi Sunak said he would step down as leader following the party’s worst ever election performance, but would …
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(Reuters) -Britain’s Metro Bank is selling its portfolio of prime residential mortgages to NatWest Group for up to 2.4 billion pounds ($3.1 billion) in cash, it said on Friday. The sale is expected to reduce Metro’s risk-weighted assets by approximately 824 million pounds, leading to an improvement in the British lender’s Common Equity Tier 1 …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Two climate protesters from Just Stop Oil who threw tinned soup at Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” painting in London’s National Gallery in 2022 were on Thursday found guilty of criminal damage, media reports said. Anna Holland and Phoebe Plummer, now both 22, had thrown tins of Heinz tomato soup on the artwork, …
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By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) – Israel’s foreign minister warned his French counterpart on Thursday of a potential Iranian-backed plot to target Israeli athletes and tourists during the Paris Olympic Games. Israel’s military campaign in the Palestinian-run Gaza Strip, launched in retaliation against Hamas militants’ deadly cross-border raid last October, has inflamed tensions in the …
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By Purvi Agarwal and Roshan Abraham (Reuters) -Britain’s FTSE 100 ended higher on Thursday after upbeat earnings from Unilever and British American Tobacco helped counter losses in precious metal miners on the back of a slump in gold prices. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed up 0.4%, rebounding from a three-month low hit earlier in …
By William James LONDON (Reuters) -A video showing a British police officer kick and stamp on a man’s head during an arrest at Manchester Airport in northern England has led to accusations of police brutality and a formal investigation. Police suspended one of the officers involved and referred the actions to an independent police complaints …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British hospitals are facing an unprecedented shortage of blood supplies due to disruption from an ongoing cyber attack, health authorities said on Thursday, as they imposed limits on blood use and appealed for more donations. Large London hospitals run by Britain’s state-funded National Health Service (NHS) have faced disruption since the June …
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By Kane Wu PARIS (Reuters) – China’s divers are aiming for a golden sweep in Paris with a star-studded team, but Britain’s Tom Daley said it was possible to beat them in the men’s events. “The Chinese diving team is the strongest diving nation, unquestionably on paper,” said the 30-year-old Daley at a World Aquatics …
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