By Paul Sandle GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) -Scottish singer-songwriter Lewis Capaldi made an emotional return to Glastonbury Festival on Friday, two years after he struggled to finish “Someone You Loved” on the Pyramid Stage and took a break to focus on his mental health. The 28-year-old’s set on Friday afternoon was not on the bill but …
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By Virginia Furness and Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) -London’s climate week attracted record attendance, bolstered by the cloud hanging over its sister event in New York in September as the U.S. government turns its back on efforts to stop global warming and tightens entry requirements. The annual London Climate Action Week (LCAW), which ends on …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer sharply scaled back planned welfare cuts on Friday to quell a rebellion by lawmakers in his governing Labour Party, the latest U-turn to dent his authority just a year after winning power. Planned changes to make it tougher to collect some disability …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A man who killed a 14-year-old boy in London during a rampage with a sword was on Friday jailed for a minimum of 40 years. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, nearly decapitated schoolboy Daniel Anjorin during a 20-minute series of attacks in Hainault, east London, in April last year, in which he also assaulted …
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LONDON (Reuters) -British counter-terrorism police have arrested four people in connection with a pro-Palestinian protest last week in which military planes were sprayed with paint at an air base in England, authorities said on Friday. A woman, 29, and two men aged 36 and 24, were arrested on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A memorial to honour Queen Elizabeth in London’s St James’s Park will feature a statue of Britain’s longest-reigning monarch on horseback, another of her arm-in-arm with her husband Prince Philip and a glass bridge, the project committee said. Elizabeth II died at her Scottish castle on September 8, 2022, after more than seven …
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By Andrew MacAskill and Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer was asked in parliament on Thursday why he had not appeared in front of lawmakers for the past two weeks. His answer was simple – he had been busy with international affairs. The question underlines Starmer’s awkward position – just a year …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain has rejected a 25 billion pound ($34.39 billion) Moroccan renewable energy project that would have used solar and wind power from the Sahara to supply up to seven million UK homes. The British government, which is aiming to largely decarbonise its electricity sector by 2030, said on Thursday it believed domestic projects …
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By Catarina Demony LONDON (Reuters) -Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice from the London-based Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth nations, on the issue of slavery reparations. Under the Judicial Committee Act of 1833, Charles, who remains Jamaica’s head of …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Prince William told investors, politicians and scientists on Thursday that Indigenous People had a crucial role to play in protecting nature in his latest call for urgent action to tackle the impact of climate change. The British heir to the throne, who has inherited his father King Charles’ zeal for environmental causes, said …
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