By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – Healthcare workers in England will decide by the end of April whether to accept a government pay proposal aimed at ending strikes which have disrupted hospital and emergency care, two trade unions said on Friday. Britain sought to end months of walk-outs in the healthcare sector on Thursday by …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) can seize more than $8 million of illicit cash linked to a massive Brazilian corruption scandal involving state-run oil company Petrobras, a London court ruled on Friday. The SFO successfully applied to confiscate $7.7 million and 700,000 pounds held in the London bank account of former Petrobras …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The British government and teaching unions agreed on Friday to begin “intensive” talks to end strikes by hundreds of thousands of teachers in England who say they are overburdened and underpaid. Teachers could be one step closer to ending a wave of strike action that has left classrooms empty for several days this …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain and Japan agreed to co-operate in space on Friday, the latest move in a deepening of defence ties between the two countries which are building a new fighter jet together. Britain said on Friday that it signed an arrangement with Japan to facilitate future space co-operation including sharing space information, collaborative …
MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Former Australia test captain Tim Paine ended his cricket career on Friday after Tasmania’s Sheffield Shield match against Queensland ended in a draw at the Bellerive Oval. Wicketkeeper Paine played 35 tests for Australia, including 23 as skipper after Steve Smith was stripped of the role following a ball-tampering scandal during the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British finance minister Jeremy Hunt has dropped a plan to tax sovereign wealth funds investing in Britain, according to a government document. The report, detailing the measures in a budget plan announced by Hunt on Wednesday, said “the government has carefully considered” responses to its consultation on the immunity of sovereign funds …
By Iain Withers, Elizabeth Howcroft and Martin Coulter LONDON (Reuters) – British banks are seeing a pick-up in enquiries to switch cash between institutions after the collapse of U.S. tech lender Silicon Valley Bank, as contagion fears prompt some depositors to try to figure out the safest harbours for their funds. One of the country’s …
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(Reuters) – White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday discussed the importance of investing in Northern Ireland in separate meetings with the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and Sinn Fein’s leader and vice president, the White House said. “Mr. Sullivan and all of the party leaders discussed the importance of investing in …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Most of Britain’s passport office workers will go on strike for five weeks starting next month in a pay dispute, potentially disrupting the delivery of passports ahead of the summer holiday period. More than 1,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union working across most of the UK’s passport offices …
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By Muvija M and Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said on Thursday it would ban TikTok on government phones with immediate effect, a move that follows other Western countries in barring the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns. TikTok has come under increasing scrutiny due to fears that user data from the app owned …
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