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By Pesha Magid

RIYADH (Reuters) - Britain will continue to approve arm exports to Israel, Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden told Reuters on Tuesday, saying a full-scale Israeli operation in Rafah would not by itself result in a suspension of UK weapons supplies.

"The assessment that we undertake for arms export controls is one of the most rigorous in the world ... No single action represents a red line," Dowden said on the sidelines of... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - The boss of Tesco, Britain's largest supermarket group, saw his pay package more than double to almost 10 million pounds ($12.6 million) in its 2023/24 financial year, a period when millions of its customers battled a cost of living crisis.

Tesco's annual report, published on Tuesday, showed chief executive Ken Murphy was paid 9.93 million pounds in the year to Feb. 24 2024, up from 4.44 million pounds in 2022/23.

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By Daniel Wiessner

(Reuters) - A group of Republican-led U.S. states filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from enforcing broad legal protections for transgender workers.

The 18 states filed the complaint in federal court in Knoxville, Tennessee, late Monday. They said the federal workplace bias agency lacked the power to assert that federal law requires employers to use transgender workers'... (continue reading...)

(Reuters) - Comcast is set to launch a streaming bundle combining its Peacock service with Netflix and Apple TV+, as the media and broadband company looks to retain subscribers in the face of stiff competition.

The new bundle, StreamSaver, will be available to all its broadband, TV and mobile subscribers and at a "vastly reduced price to anything in the market today", Comcast CEO Brian Roberts told the MoffettNathanson Media, Internet & Communications... (continue reading...)

LONDON (Reuters) - Two men appeared in a British court on Tuesday, charged with planning to attack and kill members of the Jewish community and others with automatic weapons in northwest England.

Walid Saadaoui, 36, and Amar Hussein, 50, were charged with the preparation of terrorist acts, Greater Manchester police said. A third man, Walid Saadaoui's younger brother Bilel, 35, was charged with failing to disclose information about an act of terrorism.