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LONDON (Reuters) -The Guardian newspaper reported on Tuesday that John Allan, the chairman of Britain’s biggest retailer Tesco, was facing claims of inappropriate behaviour from four women. One of the allegations relates to Allan’s conduct at Tesco and three to his time at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), where he was president from 2018-2020. …

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By James Davey and Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) -Staff at struggling retailer the John Lewis Partnership gave their backing to boss Sharon White on Wednesday despite her move to consider bringing in outside investment to Britain’s best known employee-owned group. However, the governing body, elected by workers, rebuked her over the group’s performance last year, …

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LONDON (Reuters) – London’s famous Big Ben bell failed to chime on Wednesday when the dials of the Great Clock at Britain’s Houses of Parliament briefly stopped working. The four clock dials, one on each side of the 96-metre-tall Elizabeth Tower which houses Big Ben and four other bells, stopped at 12:55 p.m. (1155 GMT), …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Russian forces are planning to evacuate more than 3,000 workers from the town that serves the occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, resulting in a “catastrophic lack” of personnel, Ukraine’s state-owned Energoatom company said on Wednesday. Last week, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear power watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said the situation around the …

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(Reuters) – Russia may formally “denounce” the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, according to a decree signed by President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday. The decree formally appoints Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov to represent Putin during parliamentary proceedings on denouncing the treaty, which aimed to regulate the number of forces deployed by Warsaw …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – It was a rare day at the Vatican on Wednesday as two popes shared the limelight in St Peter’s Square – Pope Francis and His Holiness Pope Tawadros II of the Coptic Orthodox Church. Tawadros, dressed in black robes, was the guest of honour at Francis’ general audience …

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VIENNA (Reuters) – Austria will join the growing list of countries banning Chinese-owned video-sharing app TikTok from government employees’ work phones, Interior Minister Gerhard Karner said on Wednesday. Various Western countries including Britain, the United States and several other European Union member states have already barred TikTok over security concerns. The EU’s two biggest policymaking …

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By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -ASOS, one of the pioneers of online fashion retailing, swung to a first-half loss, hit by a squeeze on household budgets and forecast a further drop in sales, sending its shares sharply lower. The stock was down 11% on Wednesday, extending losses over the last year to 57%, after the …

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LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Virgin Atlantic warned it would not return to profitability until 2024, pushing back its previous forecast of this year, as a weaker pound, rising costs and higher interest rates offset strong demand for travel. For 2022, Virgin Atlantic posted a pretax loss of 206 million pounds ($256 million) on revenues which …

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