(Reuters) -England manager Gareth Southgate has decided to stay on and lead the campaign for the 2024 European Championship, the Football Association (FA) said on Sunday. The popular 52-year-old led England to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar, where they were knocked out by France, and had said he was “conflicted” about his …
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LONDON (Reuters) – A 19-year-old man has been charged with abetting illegal immigration after four migrants died trying to cross the Channel into Britain when the inflatable boat they were using started to sink. One of those who died in Wednesday’s tragedy was a teenager, regional authorities said. Thirty-nine migrants, including 12 children, were rescued …
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(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is scrapping Lizz Truss’s Energy Supply Taskforce plan introduced in September, Sky News reported on Saturday. (Reporting by Jose Joseph in Bengaluru; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
(Reuters) – Scotland’s women’s national soccer team is beginning legal action against their sport’s governing body, the Scottish FA, over equal pay and conditions, British media reports said on Friday. Captain Rachel Corsie, reportedly the lead claimant in the employment tribunal case, told BBC Scotland that there were a “significant number of examples” where players …
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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) -Pope Francis has decided to return to Greece three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon that have been in the papal collections of the Vatican Museums for more than a century. The Vatican said in a brief statement on Friday that the pope was giving them to Ieronymos II, the …
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By Nell Mackenzie and Eric Onstad LONDON (Reuters) -Hedge fund AQR Capital Management and four others asked a British judge on Friday to force the London Metal Exchange (LME) to hand over phone call transcripts and meeting notes about the LME’s March decision to cancel trades. AQR and others filed legal action in September after …
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LONDON (Reuters) – International rail operator Eurostar on Friday said that it would not operate services on Dec. 26 between Britain and France due to a national rail strike that impacts the British rail network on Boxing Day. The Christmas holidays in Britain are set to be disrupted by unprecedented strike action across several sectors, …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Prince William’s godmother has met to offer her sincere apologies to a woman over “unacceptable” comments she had made about her race and nationality at an official royal reception last month, Buckingham Palace said on Friday. Susan Hussey, 83, quit her role in the British royal family’s household after Ngozi Fulani, who was …
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By Tim Hepher LONDON (Reuters) -A $2 billion legal battle between Airbus and Qatar Airways looks set to drag through most of 2023 after a UK court split the case, amid a glimmer of hope that high-level contacts on the sidelines of the World Cup might yield a breakthrough. The dispute over damage to the …
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By Elizabeth Piper and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) – After decades funding Britain’s governing Conservatives, businessman Gareth Quarry has switched allegiance and started donating to the opposition Labour Party in the belief that it offers more certainty and stability. The 63-year-old entrepreneur abandoned the Conservatives after what he called “a litany of misdemeanours” that destroyed …
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