BURNLEY, England (Reuters) – Everton fell deeper into relegation trouble with Burnley’s Maxwel Cornet striking an 85th minute winner as the home side fought back to beat Frank Lampard’s team 3-2 at Turf Moor on Wednesday to move within a point of the Merseysiders. The win is a major boost for 18th-placed Burnley who are …
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(Reuters) – The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on Wednesday said it was investigating an increase in hepatitis cases in children. The agency said it has recently detected higher-than-usual rates of liver inflammation (hepatitis) in children. In England, approximately 60 cases are under investigation in children under 10. Similar cases are being assessed in Scotland …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Southampton great Matt Le Tissier quit as an ambassador for the Premier League club on Wednesday after deleting a link to a social media post that questioned reports Russian forces executed civilians in Ukraine. The former England international midfielder, who scored 161 goals in 443 league appearances for Southampton between 1986 and …
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By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) -Britain abandoned on Wednesday plans to hold a flagship conference designed to promote LGBT+ rights around the world following a dispute over conversion therapy for transgender people that prompted charities and organisations to boycott the event. Britain had been due to host the Safe to Be Me conference in London …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Transgender women should not be competing in female sporting events, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told broadcasters on Wednesday. Johnson was speaking as the country looked set to abandon plans to hold a flagship conference designed to promote LGBT+ rights around the world. Charities and organisations are boycotting the event following a …
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LONDON (Reuters) – The sight of tied bodies shot at close range in the Ukrainian streets of Bucha do not “look far short of genocide,” British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. The deaths in Bucha, outside Kyiv, have triggered a global outcry and pledges of further sanctions against Russia from the West. “When …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Russia said on Wednesday it would take further measures against British media based there, after London imposed sanctions against Russian state-controlled news outlets. Britain last week announced sanctions on 14 Russian people and entities including the state media organisations behind the RT and Sputnik news channels, with Foreign Secretary Liz Truss saying President …
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LONDON (Reuters) -A British man who worked in the British embassy in Berlin has been charged with offences under the Official Secrets Act related to passing on information useful to Russia, London police said. David Ballantyne Smith, 57, who was living in Potsdam, Germany and was employed as a security guard at the embassy, was …
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(Reuters) – Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline said on Wednesday its consumer arm stopped imports of supplements and vitamins into Russia as the drugmaker seeks to minimise ties with Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine. “We support global sanctions and will comply with them,” had said earlier on its website. “We have taken a precautionary approach to stop, …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain froze the assets of Russia’s largest bank Sberbank on Wednesday and said it would ban imports of Russian coal by the end of 2022 in a new round of sanctions coordinated with Western allies to “starve Putin’s war machine”. A further eight oligarchs active in industries including fertilizers, oil, gas, trucks …
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