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LONDON (Reuters) -Police in Northern Ireland said on Tuesday they had recovered four suspected pipe bombs from a cemetery near the city of Londonderry following a public safety operation. The discovery comes hours before U.S. President Joe Biden is due to arrive in Belfast, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) southeast of Londonderry. On Monday, police …

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By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England will soon add Megan Greene, global chief economist of risk management firm Kroll, to its panel of interest rate-setters, replacing Silvana Tenreyro whose term ends in July, Britain’s finance ministry said on Tuesday. The hiring of Greene, who spoke recently about the need …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain set an ambition to deliver next-generation 5G mobile coverage to populated areas by 2030 and said there was “no magic number” of network operators required to ensure a competitive market. All four of Britain’s mobile networks – BT’s EE, O2, owned by Telefonica and Liberty Global’s Virgin Media O2, Vodafone and …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Up to one million smokers will be encouraged to swap cigarettes for “vapes”, with pregnant women offered financial incentives to make the change in what will be a world first, the British government said on Tuesday. Under the scheme, almost one in five smokers will be given a vape – an e-cigarette …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Joe Biden will become the eighth sitting U.S. president to visit Ireland this week. Many of his predecessors have also sought out their Irish roots, sometimes to be greeted by cheering crowds, and occasionally by protests. John F. Kennedy, June 1963 President John F. Kennedy came to Ireland five months before his …

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LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -A number of masked people attacked a police vehicle with petrol bombs and other objects at a parade opposing the Good Friday peace accord in Londonderry, police said on Monday, a day before U.S. President Joe Biden visits Belfast. A Reuters photograph showed four young people in the mainly Irish nationalist …

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(Adds dropped word ‘impacted’ in first paragraph) (Reuters) – Vodafone on Monday said it resolved an outage that impacted thousands of its home broadband service users in the United Kingdom, after hours of downtime. “We have now fixed the issue impacting just over 1% of our home broadband customers today. Customers should already be seeing …

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(Reuters) – Former England captain Steph Houghton has a slim chance of making the women’s World Cup squad but the door is “never closed” on a potential return, coach Sarina Wiegman said on Monday. Houghton had said it had been mentally tough to deal with her exclusion from the national team but added she would …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis said on Monday he was praying that the Good Friday agreement signed 25 years ago that largely ended violence in Northern Ireland can be “consolidated” to benefit the people of all of Ireland. Francis made the comment about the 1998 agreement, which has come under strain …

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