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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain will never accept the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia as “anything other than Ukrainian territory” Prime Minister Liz Truss said, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was violating international law. “Putin cannot be allowed to alter international borders using brute force. We will ensure he loses this illegal war,” Truss …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British electricals retailer Currys said on Friday it was raising hourly pay rates for a third time in 13 months as competition heats up to attract and retain staff in a tight labour market amid a worsening cost of living crunch. The group, previously known as Dixons Carphone, said that from Oct. …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain turned a net exporter of electricity to Europe in the second quarter for the first time in over a decade, a report by academics from Imperial College London for Drax Electric Insights showed. From April to June, 8% of the electricity generated by Britain, around 5.5 terawatt-hours (TWh), was exported through …

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PARIS (Reuters) – French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Friday he was concerned about the situation in Britain, where Prime Minister Liz Truss’ plan for huge tax cuts has unleashed chaos on financial markets “I am not worried about the euro but I am worried about the situation in Britain,” Le Maire told …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British house prices failed to rise in monthly terms for the first time since July 2021, mortgage lender Nationwide said on Friday, a latest sign of the slowdown in the market caused by the cost-of-living squeeze and rising interest rates. House prices were unchanged from August and were 9.5% higher than in September …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s City minister Andrew Griffith said on Friday that Prime Minister Liz Truss and finance minister Kwasi Kwarteng would meet the independent fiscal watchdog regarding economic forecasts. “We all want the forecasts to be as quickly as they (OBR) can but also .. you also want them to have the right level …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Liz Truss will attend the first summit of the European Political Community in the Czech Republic next week, a government source said on Thursday. Truss’ advisers have also offered to host the forum’s next summit in Britain, an EU diplomatic source said. Politico, which first reported Truss’ attendance at the …

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By Michael Holden LONDON (Reuters) – The wife of a U.S. diplomat appeared by videolink in a London court on Thursday charged over a fatal car crash in England in a case that led to diplomatic friction between Britain and the United States. Harry Dunn, 19, died in August 2019 after his motorcycle was in …

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