By Peter Hall LEEDS, England (Reuters) – Harry Kane closed in on Jimmy Greaves’ all-time Tottenham Hotspur goalscoring record as he helped Spurs thrash Crystal Palace 4-0 in the Premier League on Wednesday, while Nottingham Forest beat Southampton to move out of the relegation zone. West Ham United and Leeds United remain embroiled in a …
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(Reuters) – British new car registrations rose for the fifth consecutive month in December, with an 18% increase to about 128,000, according to preliminary industry data released on Thursday. However, overall registrations for 2022 fell 2% to 1.61 million units as compared with 2021, amid pandemic-related global parts shortages, according to the Society of Motor …
By Nick Carey LONDON (Reuters) – British new car sales fell to their lowest level since 1992 last year as manufacturers struggled against pandemic-related parts shortages, but could grow 15% in 2023 as those supply-chain issues ease, an industry body said on Thursday. The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) said that according to …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Shopper numbers across Britain in December rose 5.8% from November and were up 9.9% compared to 2021 despite the impact of the cost-of-living crisis and national rail strikes, research company Springboard said on Thursday. It said the gap to pre-pandemic levels also narrowed, with December shopper numbers, or footfall, 10.9% below 2019 …
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By Yew Lun Tian and Neil Jerome Morales BEIJING/MANILA (Reuters) – China is ready to resume oil and gas talks and manage maritime issues “cordially” with the Philippines, China President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday, according to Chinese state television. Xi was speaking to his Philippines counterpart Ferdinand Marcos Jr, who was on a three-day …
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By Steve Holland COVINGTON, Ky. (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell made a rare joint appearance on Wednesday at a bridge in Kentucky in a display of bipartisanship that offers a guide to how the White House hopes to govern in months to come. As hardline Republicans create turmoil in …
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By Sinéad Carew and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) – The S&P 500 finished higher on Wednesday but below its session peak after volatile trading following the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting, which showed officials laser-focused on controlling inflation even as they agreed to slow their interest rate hiking pace. Officials at the …
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By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russia has signaled to U.N. Security Council counterparts that it will likely allow humanitarian aid deliveries from Turkey to about 4 million people in northwestern Syria for six more months, diplomats said. Authorization by the 15-member council is needed because Syrian authorities did not agree to the humanitarian …
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By Gram Slattery WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump failed on Wednesday to persuade 20 fellow Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives to fall in line behind Kevin McCarthy’s bid for speaker, underscoring the former president’s declining power over the party he reshaped. “It’s now time for all of our GREAT Republican House Members to …
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By Kanishka Singh (Reuters) – A federal judge cut by millions of dollars damages that were imposed on organizers of the 2017 “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing a cap imposed under a local law. In November 2021, a federal jury found the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally liable …
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