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LONDON (Reuters) – The British Museum said on Wednesday it was holding “constructive discussions” with Greece over the Parthenon Sculptures amid renewed speculation that the 2,500-year-old marbles could soon be returned to Athens. Greece has repeatedly called for the permanent return of the sculptures that British diplomat Lord Elgin removed from the imposing Parthenon temple …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British workers belonging to the GMB trade union at an Amazon warehouse in central England are set to walk out on Jan. 25 over a pay row, the union said on Wednesday, warning that further dates will be laid out “in the coming weeks”.  In response, the U.S. tech giant said it …

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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s data privacy regulator fined Meta 390 million euros ($414 million) on Wednesday for breaches at its Facebook and Instagram services and said both must reassess the legal basis on how they run advertising based on personal data in the European Union. The order on how both social media companies run advertising …

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(Reuters) – Shares of GE HealthCare Technologies Inc reversed course to trade up 4.4% in their market debut on Wednesday, after the medical equipment maker completed its separation from industrial conglomerate General Electric Co. GE said in 2021 it would split into three public companies to simplify its business, pare down debt and breathe life …

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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin sent a frigate to the Atlantic Ocean armed with new generation hypersonic cruise missiles on Wednesday, a signal to the West that Russia will not back down over the war in Ukraine. Russia, China and the United States are in a race to develop hypersonic weapons …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday that Britain needed to have the confidence to “do things differently and better,” in a speech setting out his government’s priorities in the new year. “We need to have the imagination and confidence to do things differently and better. The vision to do today, what …

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By Sabrina Valle HOUSTON (Reuters) – BP PLC said on Wednesday it planned to expand investments in the Gulf of Mexico and Texas, where it has its two top U.S. oil and gas production operations. The increase comes as inflation costs hit the industry and as the White House calls on oil companies to expand …

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LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday pledged to halve inflation and grow the economy as he laid out the government’s priorities in his first major speech in the new year. “First, we will halve inflation this year to ease the cost of living and give people financial security,” Sunak said during …

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By Elizabeth Howcroft and Carolyn Cohn LONDON (Reuters) -U.S. funds giant BlackRock will defer third-quarter redemptions from its 3.5 billion pounds ($4.2 billion) BlackRock UK Property Fund, a source told Reuters, in the latest sign of strain in Britain’s real estate market. Top asset managers, including M&G, Columbia Threadneedle, Schroders and CBRE Investment Management, have …

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