By William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s housing market suffered the most widespread price falls since 2009 last month as the run of interest rate increases over the past year weighed on would-be buyers, according to a survey published on Thursday. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) house price balance, which measures the gap …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s trade minister Kemi Badenoch begins a two-day visit to Mexico on Thursday, targeting a bilateral trade deal as well as Britain’s accession to a Pacific trading association as the country builds its trade ties after leaving the European Union. Britain is targeting an Indo-Pacific tilt in its foreign and trade policy, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The number of anti-Semitic incidents in Britain last year fell by more than a quarter from a record high seen in 2021, but an increasing number of children are becoming victims of hatred, a Jewish advisory body said on Thursday. The annual report by the Community Security Trust (CST), which advises Britain’s …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday said that nothing was off the table when it came to supplying Ukraine with jets to fight Russia, adding that training Ukrainian pilots was the first step towards them being able to use such planes. “The first step in being able to provide advanced aircrafts …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Talks between Britain and the European Union to improve post-Brexit trading relations in Northern Ireland will continue after leading figures discussed the process on Wednesday. “Good to see (European Commission Vice President) Maros Sefcovic again to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland,” Britain’s Northern Ireland minister Chris Heaton-Harris said on Twitter. “We …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain wants to start training Ukrainian fighter pilots as soon as possible, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday, adding London had yet to decide on whether to send combat aircraft. “We are hoping to receive the first Ukrainian pilots for training in the spring, obviously we want it …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Former British lawmaker Jared O’Mara was found guilty of fraud for submitting fake expenses of nearly 20,000 pounds ($24,128) to fund his cocaine habit when he was a member of parliament, local media reports said on Wednesday. O’Mara, a former lawmaker from Britain’s opposition Labour Party, was was thousands of pounds in …
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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s counter-terrorism programme “Prevent” must refocus its efforts more on the threat posed by militant Islamism after becoming too concerned with right-wing extremism, an independent review of the often-criticised strategy concluded on Wednesday. “Prevent” is a key strand of Britain’s security apparatus, which was brought in after the Sept. …
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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) – The Church of England will look into the use of gender neutral terms to refer to God in prayers, but the centuries-old institution said on Wednesday there were no plans to abolish current services. The issue reflects growing global awareness about the assumed usage of pronouns causing offence or …
By Hritika Sharma (Reuters) – The Premier League has charged Manchester City with alleged violations of its regulations, starting from 2009 and continuing into the current 2022-23 season. ACCURATE FINANCIAL INFORMATION For every season from 2009-10 to 2017-18, Manchester City are alleged to have breached rules that require clubs to provide accurate financial information to …
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