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LONDON (Reuters) -Three days of strikes by tens of thousands of British rail workers over the next week have been suspended while “intensive negotiations” are held in a long-running dispute over pay and working conditions, the RMT trade union said on Friday. Rail operators welcomed the news but said the change of plan had come …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland will nominate Paschal Donohoe to serve a second term as president of the Eurogroup even though he will no longer be Ireland’s finance minister when his term in Europe comes to an end in January, the government said on Friday. Donohoe was appointed chair of the group of euro zone finance ministers …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Friday praised King Charles for his far-sighted leadership on tackling climate change as the monarch hosted a reception for politicians and business leaders ahead of the U.N. COP27 summit. Charles, 73, who has long campaigned on environmental issues, will not himself be attending the summit which …

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By Elizabeth Howcroft LONDON (Reuters) -Santander will block UK customers from sending real-time payments to cryptocurrency exchanges next year as part of measures to protect customers from scams, the bank said in an emailed statement on Friday. At an unspecified point during 2023, the bank will introduce a block on all real-time payments to cryptocurrency …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Hundreds of workers at London’s Heathrow airport will walk out in the run-up to the soccer World Cup this month over demands for better pay, a British union said on Friday. Unite said 700 workers involved in ground-handling, airside transport and cargo, and employed by Emirates Group’s airport services subsidiary dnata and Menzies, …

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By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England must sell in “a timely and orderly” way the 19.3 billion pounds ($21.7 billion) of government bonds which it bought in its recent emergency operation to support the market, a senior BoE official said on Friday. The BoE was forced to step in to buy long-dated …

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(Reuters) – British new car registrations rose for the third consecutive month in October, up by around a quarter, according to preliminary industry data released on Friday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said it expects a market recovery in 2023. The SMMT will provide the final figures for the month at 0900 …

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BELFAST (Reuters) – The UK government will not call fresh elections in Northern Ireland before the end of the year and will announce how it intends to proceed beyond that next week, the British minister for the region said on Friday. The deadline passed last week for forming a power-sharing government following elections in May …

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SYDNEY (Reuters) – A peaking England find themselves in a three-way tussle for a place in the semi-finals of the T20 World Cup but skipper Jos Buttler will have the advantage of knowing exactly what they need to do in their final group match against Sri Lanka. The 2010 champions are sandwiched between New Zealand …

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