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Britain's Prime Minister Liz Truss arrives to attend the Conservative Party conference at the ICC, in Birmingham, England, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira)

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UK's Truss sticks by economic plan as her party worries
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Sun,10/02/22-4:23AM , 234 Reads
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Liz Truss said Sunday that she could have done a better job “laying the ground” for her package of unfunded tax cuts, but insisted she would push on with an economic plan that has caused turmoil on financial m
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Hilary Mantel, winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction, poses with a copy of her book 'Bring up the Bodies', shortly after the award ceremony in central London, on Oct. 16, 2012. Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” saga, has died, publisher HarperCollins said Friday Sept. 23, 2022. She was 70. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

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Hilary Mantel, author of 'Wolf Hall' Tudor saga, dies at 70
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Fri,09/23/22-5:31AM , 239 Reads
LONDON (AP) — Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died, her publisher said Friday. She was 70.
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British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her husband Hugh O'Leary arrive for the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey in central London, Monday Sept. 19, 2022. The Queen, who died aged 96 on Sept. 8, will be buried at Windsor alongside her late husband, Prince Philip, who died last year. (Geoff Pugh/Pool via AP)

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Britain's Truss doesn't expect UK-US trade deal anytime soon
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Tue,09/20/22-12:01AM , 307 Reads
NEW YORK (AP) — Prime Minister Liz Truss has kicked off her first visit to the United States as Britain’s leader with an admission that a U.K-U.S. free trade deal is not going to happen for years.
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Police officers are backdropped by a photograph of Queen Elizabeth II in London, Friday, Sept.16, 2022. The Queen will lie in state in Westminster Hall for four full days before her funeral on Monday Sept. 19.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

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Funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is huge security challenge
By JILL LAWLESS - Associated Press
Sun,09/18/22-6:08AM , 302 Reads
LONDON (AP) — The funeral of the only monarch most Britons have known involves the biggest security operation London has ever seen.
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