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Soccer-Man City celebrate Premier League title with 1-0 win over Chelsea

By Lori Ewing MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) -Manchester City celebrated their Premier League title success on Sunday, beating Chelsea 1-0 with an early goal by Julian Alvarez in the team’s home finale at a sun-drenched Etihad Stadium. Treble-chasing City, who wrapped up the title when second-placed Arsenal were beaten at Nottingham Forest on Saturday, have won …

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UK’s Sunak says China poses world’s biggest security challenge

By Katya Golubkova HIROSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) – China represents the world’s greatest challenge to security and prosperity, but other leading economies should not seek to fully decouple from it, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Sunday after a summit of the Group of Seven (G7) nations. “China poses the biggest challenge of our age …

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Sinn Fein sweep past unionist rivals again in N. Ireland local elections

By Amanda Ferguson BELFAST (Reuters) -Irish nationalists Sinn Fein followed up last year’s historic Northern Ireland Assembly victory by overtaking their unionist rivals by a wide margin in council elections on Saturday to become the biggest party at local level for the first time. It is the latest political milestone for the former political wing …

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Soccer-Manchester City win Premier League title as Arsenal lose

By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) -Manchester City were confirmed as Premier League champions for the fifth time in six seasons on Saturday without even having to kick a ball after second-placed Arsenal’s challenge ended in defeat away at Nottingham Forest. Arsenal, who enjoyed an eight-point lead over City as recently as mid-March, needed at least …

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Sick of sewage, Britons protest at water companies’ pollution

BRIGHTON, England (Reuters) – Thousands of Britons took to the sea and rivers on Saturday to demand an end to sewage pollution by water companies, highlighting a topic that is likely to be an issue at the next general election. A national “paddle-out” at 12 locations across the United Kingdom, including Brighton in the south, …

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Queen Bee: UK’s Princess of Wales dons veil and boots to mark World Bee Day

LONDON (Reuters) – Buckingham Palace issued a photograph of Kate, the wife of heir to the British throne Prince William, on Saturday to mark World Bee Day. The picture, taken last year, showed the Princess of Wales, as she is officially titled, beekeeping at Anmer Hall, her residence in the rural eastern English county of …

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UK to ban Russian diamonds, US sanctions target major gold miners

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain published plans to ban imports of Russian diamonds, copper, aluminium and nickel on Friday and announced new sanctions against Russia, targeting companies connected to the suspected theft of Ukrainian grain. The United States and Canada also announced new penalties on Russia over its war against Ukraine. Washington imposed sanctions on gold producer …

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Blur’s Alex James on making new album: ‘It’s exciting and emotional’

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – Recording Blur’s first new album in eight years has been “exciting and emotional”, bassist Alex James says, as the band prepares for a series of gigs this summer where fans will get to hear their new tunes. Blur, who exploded onto the British music scene in the early 1990s …

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London court throws out lawsuit against Google over medical records

LONDON (Reuters) – Google on Friday defeated a lawsuit brought on behalf of 1.6 million people over medical records provided to the U.S. tech giant by a British hospital trust. The Royal Free London NHS Trust transferred patient data to Google’s artificial intelligence firm DeepMind Technologies in 2015 in relation to the development of a …

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