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DUBAI (Reuters) -Iranian authorities rerouted a flight bound for Dubai on Monday and prevented the wife and daughter of former national soccer team captain Ali Daei, who has supported anti-government protests, from leaving the country, state media reported. Amid a concerted clampdown, Tehran also said the arrests in Iran of citizens linked to Britain reflected …

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(Reuters) – England test captain Ben Stokes has raised concerns over the scheduling of international cricket, saying the authorities do not give the matter enough thought. Stokes highlighted England’s three-match one-day international series in Australia in November, which started four days after they won the Twenty20 World Cup. He described it as a “series which …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain will stop publishing the COVID-19 R number that measures how quickly the disease is spreading among the population, saying on Monday it was not needed anymore thanks to vaccines and drugs. The R number, or “reproduction number”, has been a staple of coronavirus data bulletins in the last three years. An …

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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles invoked his late mother, Queen Elizabeth, in his first Christmas message to the nation as monarch and spoke of his faith in humanity at a time of “great anxiety and hardship”. Charles said he shares with his “whole heart” his mother’s faith in God and people. …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s King Charles delivered his first Christmas message to the nation since becoming monarch in September after the death of Queen Elizabeth II. Below is the speech’s full text: “I am standing here in this exquisite Chapel of St. George at Windsor Castle, so close to where my beloved mother, the late …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Saturday dismissed an apology by the tabloid Sun newspaper for publishing a column highly critical of Meghan as a “PR stunt” and said the newspaper had not contacted her to say sorry. In the column, television presenter Jeremy Clarkson wrote of Meghan: “At night, …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Maxi Jazz, the lead vocalist of British electronic music band Faithless and known as the voice in trance hits such as “God Is a DJ” and “Insomnia”, has died aged 65, the band said on Saturday. “He was a man who changed our lives in so many ways. He gave proper meaning …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced criticism on Saturday for seeming out of touch with ordinary people when he asked a homeless man at a charity whether he “worked in business” and wanted to get into the finance industry. Sunak, a former Goldman Sachs banker and one of Britain’s wealthiest people, was …

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