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LONDON (Reuters) – The owners of London’s ExCel conference centre on Friday won a court ruling against insurers, including Royal & Sun Alliance, over pandemic-related losses, which its lawyers said could affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders. London International Exhibition Centre Plc took legal action at London’s High Court last year over business interruption (BI) …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who quit parliament last week over a finding that he misled lawmakers about COVID lockdown parties, was accused on Friday of a new breach for taking a newspaper columnist job without waiting for required ethics vetting. Nine months after he left the premiership, Johnson’s ethics record is …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British police on Friday charged a man with three counts of murder following a stabbing and van attack in the central English city of Nottingham earlier this week which left three people dead. The charges relate to university students, Barnaby Philip John Webber and Grace Sashi O’Malley-Kumar – both aged 19 -, …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Train drivers on Britain’s Avanti West Coast rail network, the line which connects London, northwest England and Scotland, will strike on July 2, PA Media reported on Friday. (Reporting by Sarah Young; editing by David Milliken)

By Kirstin Ridley LONDON (Reuters) – A former senior analyst at asset manager Janus Henderson and four others on Friday pleaded not guilty in a London court to being part of a 15-month insider dealing and money laundering conspiracy. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) alleges Redinel Korfuzi misused confidential, price sensitive information to trade in …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will commit 60 million pounds ($77 million) to NATO’s Ukraine fund, the government said on Friday, bringing the UK’s contribution to the fund to over 80 million pounds since February last year. “This new contribution … is part of our ongoing commitment to provide Ukraine with the equipment and training it …

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LONDON (Reuters) -The boss of Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco on Friday hit back at critics, including the Bank of England, who have blamed supermarkets for stubbornly high inflation levels, saying the grocer was quick to react when commodity prices fell. Some politicians and trade unions have raised concerns about profiteering by manufacturers and supermarkets. But …

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