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ST. GALLEN, Switzerland (Reuters) -Reigning champions England thrashed neighbours Wales 6-1 to reach the Women’s Euro 2025 quarter-finals on Sunday, securing second spot in Group D and cruising into the knockouts, where they will face Sweden, on a high note. Georgia Stanway, Ella Toone, Lauren Hemp, Alessia Russo, Beth Mead and Aggie Beever-Jones were all …

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LONDON (Reuters) -British police arrested scores of supporters on Saturday of a pro-Palestinian protest group that was banned this month under anti-terrorism legislation. Police said they had arrested at least 41 people in London and 16 others in Manchester for showing support for the group Palestine Action. Campaign group Defend our Juries said 86 people …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -A British man pleaded not guilty on Friday in New York to charges he helped mastermind a nearly $100 million fraud whose victims invested in loans meant for wealthy wine collectors — except that neither the collectors nor their wine existed. James Wellesley, 58, entered his plea to wire …

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By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) -King Charles and his daughter-in-law Kate’s public battles with cancer have had a huge impact on fellow sufferers, encouraging them to be open about the difficulties of coping with the illness, a leading cancer support charity says. The news that both the 76-year-old monarch and Kate, 43, wife of his …

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By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) -The Anglican Communion is exploring diluting the Archbishop of Canterbury’s role as its central symbolic leader, in an attempt to prevent internal divisions over ordination of women and inclusion of the LGBTQ+ community from tearing apart the world’s third-largest Christian faith. For centuries, the man who crowns British monarchs as …

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By Clodagh Kilcoyne MOYGASHEL, Northern Ireland (Reuters) -A model of refugees in a boat, placed on a bonfire in a pro-British town near Belfast, was set alight on Thursday night, weeks after migrants’ homes were attacked nearby. The display prompted condemnations by politicians across Northern Ireland’s political divides, and police said they were investigating it …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Thirteen people have been arrested in Romania after phishing attacks against Britain’s tax office HMRC, in which authorities suspect stolen data was used to fraudulently obtain millions of pounds of tax payments, HMRC said on Thursday. His Majesty’s Revenue & Customs, or HMRC, said its criminal investigators had joined more than 100 Romanian …

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