By Andrew R.C. Marshall LONDON (Reuters) - It was a normal busy winter for British funeral director Matthew Uden until the second week of January. "Then it was like someone flicked a switch," he said. As Britain's COVID-19 death toll surged into six figures, the phones at W. Uden & Sons, his family's...
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LONDON (Reuters) - The situation in Myanmar is extremely worrying and the British authorities are monitoring it closely, a minister said on Monday after the military in the Asian country seized power in a coup against the democratically elected government. "It's clearly an extremely worrying situation in Myanmar," said junior health minister Helen Whately, the first British minister to appear on the...
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LONDON (Reuters) - A British minister said she was hoping centenarian Captain Tom Moore, who raised millions of pounds for the health service in last year's lockdown, would pull through after the record-breaking fundraiser was admitted to hospital with COVID-19. Moore, who became a national hero after he raised more than 30 million pounds ($41 million) by walking lengths of his garden,...
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LONDON (Reuters) - ASOS (LON:ASOS) has bought the Topshop, Topman, Miss Selfridge and HIIT brands from the administrators of Philip Green's collapsed Arcadia group for 265 million pounds ($364 million), the British online fashion retailer said on Monday. The deal for Arcadia's prized brands does not include its stores, putting thousands of jobs at risk. ($1 = 0.7279 pounds) ...
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(Reuters) - British fund supermarket Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HRGV) raised its dividend and posted a 10% jump in profit for the first half of its fiscal year, as it brought in a record number of new clients on the back of a market recovery post the coronavirus selloff. "As our client numbers continue to grow, we are finding that younger people...
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Investing.com – Japan equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Paper & Pulp, Railway & Bus and Real Estate sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in Tokyo, the Nikkei 225 gained 1.55%. The biggest gainers of the session on the Nikkei 225 were NEC Corp. (T:6701), which rose 12.81% or 730.0 points to...
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(Bloomberg) -- China’s efforts to control a recent resurgence of Covid-19 are undercutting a recovery that’s been one of the bright spots in the global economy. Travel has collapsed ahead of the Lunar New Year holidays after recent lockdowns were imposed in northern China to curb outbreaks and the government took steps to discourage...
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By Martyn Herman LONDON (Reuters) - Liverpool's Mohamed Salah ended his Premier League goal drought in style by scoring twice as the champions raided the capital again to crush West Ham United 3-1 on Sunday. Liverpool came to life after a first half almost devoid of goalmouth action at the London Stadium, with...
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By Wayne Cole SYDNEY (Reuters) - Asian shares rallied on Monday and U.S. stock futures recouped early losses as newly empowered retail investors turned their attention to precious metals, promising a respite to some hard-hit hedge funds. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan climbed 1.4% after four straight sessions of losses. Japan's Nikkei added 1.2%, after shedding almost 2%...
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ZURICH (Reuters) - Clariant Chairman Hariolf Kottmann said he would not stand for re-election to the group's board of directors at the annual general meeting in April, bowing to pressure from biggest shareholder Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC). The Swiss chemicals maker will instead propose to elect Guenter von Au as new chairman of the board and will also propose an ordinary...
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