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British financial assets were under pressure Friday on growing speculation that the Labour government has ditched plans to raise income taxes in a crucial budget at the end of the month.

Economic growth in the U.K. slowed down to a near standstill in the third quarter of the year. The statistics released Thursday are a blow to the British government less than two weeks ahead of a crucial budget that is expected to see taxes rise again.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to say whether he would urge U.S. President Donald Trump to drop his threat to sue the BBC for $1 billion over the broadcaster’s edit of a speech he made after losing the 2020 presidential election.

British police said six people have been arrested ahead of Aston Villa’s Europa League soccer match with Maccabi Tel Aviv in Birmingham, a match that has seen fans of the Israeli team banned.

Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, King Charles III's younger brother, is facing banishment from royal premises.

British police say one of two men arrested over a stabbing attack on a train has been released without charge.

British police say 10 people have been taken to hospitals after a mass stabbing attack on a London-bound train, nine of them with life-threatening injuries.

A Colombian man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing two men in London and dumping their remains in suitcases in southwest England.

Prince Andrew says he is giving up his royal title of the Duke of York after his friendship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein returned to the headlines.

Counter terrorism police in Britain say that the assailant in last week's attack on a synagogue in the city of Manchester that left two people dead had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group.