PARIS (Reuters) – Riders of gasoline-fueled motorcycles will have to start paying for parking in Paris from September as the French capital aims to reduce noise and pollution, but parking for electric motorcycles remains free, a city hall official said on Monday. The new charge fulfills a campaign promise of socialist mayor Anne Hidalgo and …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain wants to reform its insurer solvency rules quickly, finance minister Rishi Sunak told insurance executives on Monday at a meeting to help to draw up so-called Solvency II reforms. “(Sunak) also made clear that also that the aim is to deliver these ambitious reforms at pace, with our consultation closing on …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain does not rule out using an emergency clause in its Brexit deal known as Article 16, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Monday, but she added triggering the clause would not resolve fundamental issues surrounding Northern Ireland. “We came to the conclusion that it (triggering Article 16) would not resolve the …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British lawyers involved in criminal trials will stage a walkout on Monday in a dispute over government funding, refusing to take on new cases or cover cases for colleagues which have overrun. Barristers voted for action earlier this month with more than 80% of its 2,055 members backing walkouts, the Criminal Bar …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain is providing technology to ensure that any wheat stolen from Ukraine by Russia does not make it to the global market, Britain’s environment minister George Eustice said on Monday. Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine and blockade of its Black Sea ports has prevented the country, traditionally one of the world’s …
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By Lucy Marks LONDON (Reuters) – Fifty years ago, a group of LGBT+ campaigners marched from London’s Trafalgar Square to Hyde Park to protest against discrimination and fight for acceptance in the city’s first ever Pride rally. Among them on the march on July 1 1972, organised by activist group the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), …
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NITEROI, Brazil (Reuters) – The family of Dom Phillips on Sunday bid farewell to the British journalist, who was killed earlier this month along with Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon. Phillips’ wife Alessandra Sampaio, siblings Sian and Gareth, and brother-in-law Paul Sherwood attended the 57-year-old’s funeral in Niteroi near Rio de Janeiro. …
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(Reuters) -A house explosion in the Kingstanding area of Birmingham left one person with life-threatening injuries and four others with minor injuries, while also damaging three other houses, the West Midlands region’s ambulance service said on Sunday. The explosion happened at about 8.40 p.m. local time, the ambulance service said in a statement. (Reporting by …
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(Reuters) – German utility RWE AG’s head has warned that a windfall tax on electricity generators in Britain would make it and other power firms reconsider their investment decisions in the country, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. RWE, Germany’s largest power producer, last year had announced a plan to invest as much as 15 …
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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Ghislaine Maxwell reported Brooklyn jail staff threatened her safety, prompting employees to place her on suicide watch, prosecutors said on Sunday, arguing there was no need to delay her sentencing on sex trafficking charges. Maxwell, 60, is scheduled to be sentenced on Tuesday for her December conviction for …
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