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By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Jury deliberations in British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial came to a close without a verdict on Tuesday, as jurors reviewed testimony of women who said she set them up for abuse by financier Jeffrey Epstein when they were teenagers. Maxwell, 59, is accused of recruiting and grooming …

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By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Tuesday that he would not be introducing new COVID-19 restrictions in England before Christmas, but the situation remained extremely difficult and the government might need to act afterwards. Britain has reported record levels of COVID-19 cases over the past week as the highly …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Tuesday said public New Year’s Eve celebrations in Scotland would be cancelled as she set out plans for post-Christmas restrictions on large scale events to try to slow the spread of the Omicron variant. Britain has reported record levels of COVID-19 cases over the past week, with …

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LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s foreign minister Liz Truss, thrust into post-Brexit talks with Brussels after the resignation of Brexit minister David Frost, said London’s position remained unchanged and the process needed to speed up in the New Year. “Our preference remains to reach an agreed solution,” Truss said after a first online meeting with her European …

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LONDON (Reuters) -A man accused of stabbing to death British lawmaker David Amess at a church where he was meeting voters in October pleaded not guilty at a court hearing on Tuesday. Ali Harbi Ali, 25, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, is accused of repeatedly knifing Amess …

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