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UK finance minister says no housing boom in Britain

August 24, 2021 at 7:49 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain is not experiencing a runaway increase in house prices, despite concerns that government schemes are helping buyers fuel another property bubble, Britain's finance minister said on...

Reprivatization of RBS bank ‘unrealistic’ in next five years: UK minister

August 24, 2021 at 7:05 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's largely state-owned Royal Bank of Scotland is unlikely to be reprivatized before 2018, Business Secretary Vince Cable said in an interview published on The Telegraph newspaper...

Hundreds protest in London against Russian anti-gay law

August 24, 2021 at 7:09 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Hundreds of people protested in London on Saturday against a Russian anti-gay propaganda law that has attracted international condemnation as the world athletics championships kick off in...

Shadow of soldier’s death lingers as Britain toasts troops

August 24, 2021 at 5:39 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Britons celebrated the work of the military on Saturday in the fifth annual Armed Forces Day, with one of the largest events being...

Black Sabbath top British album chart again: after 43 years

August 24, 2021 at 4:59 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - The British rock band Black Sabbath's album "13!" has given them a first British Number One album in nearly 43 years, a record interval between chart-toppers, the...

British queen’s husband, 91, to undergo ‘exploratory’ surgery

August 24, 2021 at 4:28 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prince Philip, the 91-year-old husband of Britain's Queen Elizabeth, was to undergo "exploratory" surgery on his abdomen on Friday. His wife of 65 years carried on with...

Protests over murdered British soldier, pressure on Cameron

August 24, 2021 at 3:35 p.m.

LONDON (Reuters) - Around a thousand far-right protesters shouting "Muslim killers, off our streets" marched through central London on Monday against a backdrop of swelling anti-Muslim feeling following the killing...

EU faces energy policy vacuum after 2020

August 24, 2021 at 1:27 p.m.

DUBLIN (Reuters) - EU ministers meeting in Dublin stood far apart on what energy and environment policy could follow a set of 2020 targets, with a binding legal deal unlikely...

Anxious, angry Cypriots face uncertain future

August 24, 2021 at 6:29 a.m.

NICOSIA (Reuters) - Dora Giorgali says she has to go back almost 40 years, when Cyprus was at war, to recall such a feeling of anxiety. "I haven't felt so...

UK deputy PM pressured in vote, anti-EU party surges

August 24, 2021 at 5:10 a.m.

EASTLEIGH, England (Reuters) - Residents of an English town that hardly anyone outside Britain has heard of cast their votes on Thursday in an election that could help determine the...

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