(Reuters) – Liverpool may have a historic quadruple in their sights but manager Juergen Klopp insisted that pressure is not a factor as his side prepare to face Wolverhampton Wanderers on the final day of the Premier League season. Liverpool, who have already won the domestic cup double, must beat Wolves at home on Sunday …
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ZURICH (Reuters) – Dozens of anti-capitalist protesters clashed with police in Zurich on Friday ahead of the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) annual meeting in the Alpine resort of Davos starting on Sunday. The unauthorised “Smash WEF” demonstration is a regular occurrence in Switzerland’s financial hub before the world’s business and political elite gather around 120 …
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(Reuters) -The world’s most prestigious tennis tournament was on Friday set on a collision course with the sport’s global governing bodies after Wimbledon had its ranking points stripped by the ATP and WTA Tours over excluding players from Russia and Belarus. The move by the men’s and women’s tours will reduce Wimbledon to an exhibition …
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ATHENS (Reuters) – A marble fragment of the Parthenon temple will be permanently returned to Athens from a museum in Italy, a significant move for Greece which has stepped up its campaign for the return of the sculptures from its most renowned ancient monument. The “Fagan fragment” is a 35-by-31-centimetre (12-by-14-inch) marble fragment showing the …
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By Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) – British retail sales jumped unexpectedly in April as shoppers loaded up on alcohol and tobacco, likely a blip in an otherwise bleak trend that has driven consumer confidence to all-time lows amid a worsening cost-of-living crunch. Retail sales volumes rose 1.4% month on month after a 1.2% drop in …
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(Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan that Finland and Sweden would be valuable additions to the NATO alliance. A spokesperson for Johnson said the PM also asked Erdogan on a call to work with Swedish, Finnish and NATO counterparts to address any concerns ahead of a leaders …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain reduced its COVID-19 alert level from four to three on Friday, saying the Omicron-variant wave of the virus was subsiding and healthcare pressures continued to decrease in all nations. “Based on advice from UKHSA (UK Health Security Agency), we the UK Chief Medical Officers and NHS England Medical Director have recommended …
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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said he would have to use fiscal firepower to help people through the cost of living crisis over the coming months, comparing the task to the support government offered during the COIVD-19 pandemic. “In the months ahead we are going to have to do what we did …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The UK Health Security Agency said on Friday it had detected 11 new cases of monkeypox in England, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 20. Britain had previously reported a total of nine cases of the usually mild viral illness, characterised by symptoms of fever as well as …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – The British government plans to bring forward legislation in early June to unilaterally scrap some of the rules governing post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland, the leader of the region’s largest pro-British party said on Friday. British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said on Tuesday she would introduce the new law “in the coming …
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