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By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – England recorded its highest ever COVID-19 infection prevalence in March and cases were still increasing in the over-55s at the end of the month, an Imperial College London survey said on Wednesday, adding that Omicron subvariant BA.2 was now dominant. Prime Minister Boris Johnson has lifted all COVID-19 restrictions …

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By Fernando Kallas LISBON (Reuters) – Liverpool took a firm grip of their Champions League tie with Benfica as goals from Ibrahima Konate, Sadio Mane and Luis Diaz earned them a 3-1 victory in Lisbon in their quarter-final first leg on Tuesday. Konate opened the scoring with a close-range header from a corner and Mane …

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By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -U.S. authorities on Tuesday announced criminal and civil charges against the former head of a now-defunct British company for making a fraudulent bid to buy U.S. aerospace and defense company Textron Inc for about $13.8 billion. The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said Melville …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a video appeal to Russians on Tuesday, calling on them to share reports about “atrocities” committed by their troops in Ukraine, saying if people knew the truth they would not support the war. The United States and European countries, including Britain, have accused Russia of war …

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By Amlan Chakraborty NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC) aspires to be a “beacon of hope” for diversity in English cricket, its chairman Kamlesh Patel told Reuters on Tuesday. The club was rocked by a racism scandal last year after Azeem Rafiq, a former England under-19 captain of Pakistani descent, alleged that …

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(Reuters) -Four major British housebuilders have signed a government-backed safety pledge to remove flammable roof coverings from buildings which came into focus after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London. The country’s second-largest and third-largest homebuilders, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey, said on Tuesday they had signed the “Developer Pledge” setting out commitments for coverings called …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British shoppers are increasingly choosing own-label products to help counter surging inflation, according to research by NielsenIQ that showed overall supermarket spending down on a year ago when COVID lockdown measures were in place. Sales of branded grocery products fell by 5.1% in the four weeks to March 26, while sales of …

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(Reuters) – Ukrainian forces have retaken key northern terrain, forcing Russian forces to retreat from areas around the city of Chernihiv and north of the capital Kyiv, British military intelligence said on Tuesday. Low-level fighting is likely to continue in some of the recaptured areas, but reduce this week as the remainder of the Russian …

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