By Sarah Young LONDON (Reuters) – A serving London police officer has admitted carrying out 24 counts of rape in a near two decade-long campaign of abuse against women, making him one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders. The Metropolitan Police and the country’s prosecution service said David Carrick, 48, had used his position of …
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By Sarah Young and Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) – Teachers in England and Wales on Monday announced they would take strike action, joining nurses, rail workers and others in staging industrial action in a further headache for Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s government. The National Education Union (NEU) said that the first strike would be on …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – SMBC Aviation Capital, the world’s second-largest aircraft lessor, remains open to acquisition opportunities after its recent purchase of smaller rival Goshawk Aviation for $6.7 billion, its chief financial officer said on Monday. “We still do continue to look at inorganic opportunities, I would say,” Aisling Kenny told the Airline Economics conference in …
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Por Bansari Mayur Kamdar y Sruthi Shankar 16 ene (Reuters) – Las bolsas europeas alcanzaron máximos de casi nueve meses el lunes, aunque en un contexto de escasas operaciones debido al día festivo en Estados Unidos, con los valores inmobiliarios y minoristas ayudando a contrarrestar las pérdidas en los sectores vinculados a las materias primas. …
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The European Parliament began a month-long procedure on Monday to waive the immunity from prosecution of two lawmakers who Belgian investigators want to question over a cash-for-influence corruption scandal. Parliament President Roberta Metsola told the assembly in Strasbourg that Belgium had requested immunity be lifted for Italian Andrea Cozzolino and Belgian Marc …
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By Divya Chowdhury and Anisha Sircar DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – Confidence among companies in their growth prospects has dropped the most since the 2007-08 global financial crisis due to rising inflation, macroeconomic volatility and geopolitical conflicts, a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers showed. With 73% of chief executives around the world expecting global economic growth to decline …
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LONDON (Reuters) -The union representing some of England’s head teachers, deputy and assistant heads said on Monday its members failed to meet the legal turnout requirement for industrial action and will consider a re-run of ballot due to postal disruption. The union, which balloted approximately 25,500 eligible members in England and Wales, said that based …
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SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian leftist President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will seek to end the industrial tax IPI, Vice President Geraldo Alckmin said on Monday, which would continue an exemption policy initiated by his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro. At an event hosted by Sao Paulo’s industry group FIESP, Alckmin acknowledged that the current administration considered …
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By Divya Chowdhury and Lisa Pauline Mattackal DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) – SkyBridge Capital is betting on a sustained turnaround in cryptocurrency markets in 2023, the firm’s founder Anthony Scaramucci said, while admitting this view was “overly bullish”. “If bitcoin could trade back to $35,000, SkyBridge is going to have an amazing year,” Scaramucci told the …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – The United Nations envoy for Yemen said on Monday he was encouraged by intensified efforts for an expanded truce deal but stressed they should seek an inclusive process for a sustainable political settlement. Hans Grundberg, addressing a U.N. Security Council briefing more than three months after an initial truce pact expired, said …
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