By Stefica Nicol Bikes SYDNEY (Reuters) – Surrounded by tens of thousands of pieces of British royal memorabilia in her home in rural Australia, Jan Hugo now has one more thing to boast about: meeting the man who is now King Charles. Starting in 1981 with a commemorative coin of then-Prince Charles’ wedding to his …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Queen Elizabeth’s eight grandchildren, including Princes William and Harry, will stand vigil beside her coffin for 15 minutes on Saturday evening, a Kensington Palace spokesman said on Friday. Elizabeth’s coffin will lie in state at Westminster Hall in London until Monday to allow members of the public to pay their respects to the …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Two police officers were stabbed in central London on Friday and are currently being treated in hospital, the Metropolitan Police Service said, adding that a man had been arrested on suspicion of grievous bodily harm and assaulting an emergency worker. The incident was not terror related and neither of the two officers were …
LONDON (Reuters) – The stabbing of two police officers in central London is not related to terrorism and neither of the officers being treated in hospital are in a life-threatening condition, the city’s mayor Sadiq Khan said on Friday. “Just to reassure those watching, the Met Police Service have confirmed that this is not a …
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish florists are resorting to cargo planes instead of trucks as they rush to send as many flowers as they can to the United Kingdom to meet a deluge of orders after the death of Queen Elizabeth. Orders for cut flowers have soared by 90% since the queen died, said Selcuk Celebi, …
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By Johann M Cherian and Bansari Mayur Kamdar (Reuters) -UK’s benchmark FTSE 100 index rose on Thursday following a steep selloff this week, led by gains in banking and mining stocks, while oil major Shell ticked up after naming renewables boss Wael Sawan as its new chief executive officer. The blue-chip FTSE 100 rose 0.6% …
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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s John Lewis Partnership reported a loss for the first half of the year and warned that the outlook for the rest of 2022 was highly uncertain due to the impact of the cost of living crisis on discretionary spending. The employee-owned group, which runs John Lewis department stores and …
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(Reuters) -British e-commerce group THG said on Thursday it expects annual core earnings to fall short of analysts’ expectations on higher commodity prices, sending its shares down 10% to a record low. Adjusted core earnings for the six months ended June for the company, which also has beauty and nutrition units, slumped 60% to 32.3 …
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By Fawaz Salman ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) – Kulthoom Muhammad Saeed was 12 years old when a young Queen Elizabeth visited Aden, then one of the world’s busiest fueling ports and a strategic piece of Britain’s crumbling global empire. Nearly seven decades later, Yemen’s long years of war and neglect have taken a devastating toll on …
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TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan is looking for the most “appropriate” way to express its condolences for the death of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and is still in the process of understanding plans for her state funeral, the island’s foreign ministry said on Thursday. The queen’s funeral will take place in London on Monday, and a host …
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