By Steve Holland and Conor Humphries BELFAST (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden was welcomed to Northern Ireland by British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Tuesday as he flew in for a brief visit to mark the 25th anniversary of a peace deal that largely ended 30 years of bloodshed. Biden, who is fiercely proud of …
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By Giuseppe Fonte and Angelo Amante ROME (Reuters) -Italy’s ruling coalition on Tuesday failed to clinch a deal on key appointments at state-controlled companies, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as negotiations continue within the government. Leading posts at energy companies Enel and Eni, aerospace group Leonardo, Italian post office Poste Italiane and …
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By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) -The Confederation of British Industry said it had fired its director-general Tony Danker and suspended three others after an investigation into complaints of workplace misconduct at the leading business group. One of Britain’s best-known business organisations, the CBI said it had appointed its former chief economist, Rain …
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BELFAST (Reuters) – A Belfast man accused of being Britain’s highest-ranking informer within the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has died, an official leading an investigation into his alleged activities said on Tuesday. Freddie Scappaticci, allegedly a leading member of the IRA’s feared internal discipline unit, the “Nutting Squad”, which interrogated suspected informers, left Northern Ireland …
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By Sachin Ravikumar LONDON (Reuters) -Junior doctors in Britain began a four-day strike over pay on Tuesday that is likely to cause unprecedented disruption to the state-funded National Health Service (NHS), prompting the government to warn of a risk to patient safety. Tens of thousands of junior doctors — qualified physicians who make up nearly …
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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain plans to make it easier to prosecute a large organisation if an employee commits fraud for the benefit of a business, the government said on Tuesday. The interior ministry said businesses which fail to deter fraud will face enforcement action under the new plans and prosecutors will not have to prove …
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LONDON (Reuters) -Police in Northern Ireland said on Tuesday they had recovered four suspected pipe bombs from a cemetery near the city of Londonderry following a public safety operation. The discovery comes hours before U.S. President Joe Biden is due to arrive in Belfast, about 110 kilometers (70 miles) southeast of Londonderry. On Monday, police …
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By David Milliken and Andy Bruce LONDON (Reuters) -The Bank of England will soon add Megan Greene, global chief economist of risk management firm Kroll, to its panel of interest rate-setters, replacing Silvana Tenreyro whose term ends in July, Britain’s finance ministry said on Tuesday. The hiring of Greene, who spoke recently about the need …
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By Shristi Achar A and Johann M Cherian (Reuters) -London’s FTSE 100 ended Tuesday’s session higher as miners and oil stocks boosted the commodity-heavy bourse, while shares of Cineworld hit an all time low as the world’s second-largest cinema chain operator filed for bankruptcy protection. Cineworld Group plunged 37.8% after the movie chain operator filed …
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(Refiles to change headline to avian flu, not aviation flu) LONDON (Reuters) – The British government said on Tuesday it would lift measures it had introduced to stop the spread of bird flu. Bird flu risk levels have been reduced, the government’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) said in a statement. The …
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