LONDON (Reuters) – Britain has summoned the Russian ambassador following Russia’s violation of NATO airspace last week, the British Foreign Office said on Monday. Poland shot down Russian drones last Wednesday in the first known action of its kind by a member of the Western military alliance during Russia’s war in Ukraine. Days later, Romania …
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By Sarah Young and Andrew MacAskill LONDON (Reuters) – A leading Conservative politician on Monday became the first sitting member of parliament to abandon Britain’s main centre-right party for the anti-immigrant Reform UK, now leading in opinion polls. Speaking at a press conference alongside Reform leader Nigel Farage, Danny Kruger said leaving behind friends was …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British aristocrat and her partner were on Monday both jailed for 14 years for the manslaughter of their baby daughter by gross negligence, as they sought to avoid detection by social services and briefly sparked a nationwide manhunt. Constance Marten – whose father was once a page to the late Queen Elizabeth …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain has banned Israelis from attending a prestigious London defence studies college due to the escalation of the war in Gaza, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said on Monday, prompting an angry response from Israel. While Britain remains a close ally of Israel’s, it has recently tried to pressure its government over the …
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BELFAST (Reuters) -The trial of the sole British soldier charged with murder over the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings of 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers in Northern Ireland began on Monday, over half a century on from one of the defining moments of The Troubles. The soldier, who cannot be identified and is known as …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British police investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a three-year-old British girl who vanished in Portugal in 2007, said a 49-year-old German man remained a suspect but had refused to be interviewed. Christian Brueckner lived in Portugal’s Algarve region at the time when McCann vanished, and is due to be released from …
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MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) – Manchester City’s goal-scoring machine Erling Haaland struck twice in a 3-0 Premier League thrashing of Manchester United on Sunday, giving Pep Guardiola’s side bragging rights in the latest edition of the derby. Phil Foden also scored for City in his first start of the season, heading in Jeremy Doku’s cross in …
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By Toby Davis BRISTOL, England (Reuters) – England battered neighbours Scotland to keep their Women’s World Cup juggernaut rolling on, running in six tries in a lopsided 40-8 victory on Sunday to reach the semi-finals and set a new world record for consecutive test wins. Kelsey Clifford went over twice while further tries for Morwenna …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British boxing great Ricky Hatton, a former two-division world champion, has died at the age of 46, the World Boxing Association said on Sunday. Nicknamed ‘the Hitman’, Hatton won the WBA, IBO and IBF light-welterweight titles and the WBA welterweight world championship during his 15-year professional career before retiring in 2012. He …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said people have a right to peaceful protest after more than 100,000 demonstrators joined an anti-immigration march through London on Saturday, but he condemned assaults on police and said Britain was built on tolerance and diversity. Far-right activist Tommy Robinson organised a march attended by around 110,000 people …
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