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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Wednesday it would increase funding to the United Nations atomic watchdog by 750,000 pounds ($932,475) to support nuclear safety work in Ukraine. Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Europe’s largest, gets its cooling water from the reservoir of the Kakhovka dam which breached on Tuesday. Britain said it had now …

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LONDON (Reuters) – The head of London’s Metropolitan Police apologised to the city’s LGBT+ community on Wednesday for the failings of the past, responding to calls from an activist group to draw a line under what they called “homophobic victimisation.” Commissioner Mark Rowley, the country’s most senior police officer, made the apology in a letter …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday he would take personal responsibility if he fails to deliver on his pledges to halve inflation and grow the economy by the end of the year. Sunak set the targets in January as part of his five priorities ahead of a national election expected …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Britain cannot yet say Russia is responsible for the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam on the front line between Russian and Ukrainian forces, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday during a visit to the United States. Asked whether Russia was responsible, Sunak told ITV: “I can’t say that definitively yet. …

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PARIS (Reuters) -Britain’s King Charles may travel to France in September after a planned state visit in March was cancelled because of sometimes violent protests over reforms to the French pension system, BFM TV reported. Charles had planned a three-day visit to France in late March in what would have been his first state visit …

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By Sam Tobin and Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Prince Harry’s five-hour appearance and his no-holds-barred assault on the tabloid press at London’s High Court on Tuesday will generate global headlines, but is unlikely to be make or break for the royal’s case against the publisher he is suing. As he arrived at the High …

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