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Nigel Farage to Speak at Reform UK Conference Amid Scrutiny Over Party Finances

Advisers to the Reform U.K. leader Nigel Farage were captured on film apparently arranging contributions from a man posing as a foreign donor.

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The Reform party leader, Nigel Farage, right, with an aide, Dan Jukes, in 2024. British law requires all donations to be disclosed and prohibits political contributions from foreign sources.
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Dutch Central Bank Cuts Gold Reserves in U.S., Citing ‘Geopolitical Unrest’

The Netherlands moved some 90 tons of gold out of the Federal Reserve Bank in New York, the second European nation this year to announce it had decreased or eliminated U.S. gold holdings.

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Olaf Sleijpen, president of the central bank of the Netherlands, in Amsterdam in March. “We have improved the tradeability of our gold reserves,” he said.
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Husband and 12 Men in Britain Are Accused of Woman’s Yearslong Drugging and Rape

Prosecutors said that the man, in his 60s, drugged and abused his wife while she was unconscious, alongside a dozen other men aged 28 to 73.

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Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, in Manchester, England, where a British man is standing trial on charges of drugging and raping his wife.
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Prince William Is Still Silent About His Brother, Harry. Can That Last?

Years of long-distance division between Prince William and his younger brother will be tested now that Harry has returned to Britain.

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Prince William, the heir to the British throne, attends a service at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle in June.
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Muslim Charity in Britain Faces Scrutiny for Possible Links to Hamas

British regulators are investigating Al-Khair Foundation after U.S. prosecutors accused a man affiliated with the group of funding terrorism.

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Marking Eid at an event organized in association with Al-Khair Foundation in London in 2017.
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England’s Ancient Trees Are Dying in the Heat

Extreme temperatures and drought are adding to the stress on oak trees that have lived for hundreds of years and play a key role in the national imagination.

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The Major Oak at Sherwood Forest Nature Reserve in Nottinghamshire, England, in May.
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Return of Harry and Meghan to U.K. Renews Questions About Their Security Fears

The couple lost their publicly funded security after deciding to leave Britain in 2020, deepening their split with the royal family.

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Prince Harry with a security detail as he arrived at Britain’s High Court last year for a hearing over the downgrading of his personal security during visits to Britain.
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‘Posh George,’ the Convicted Fraudster in Nigel Farage’s Inner Circle

George Cottrell’s close alliance with Mr. Farage is back in the spotlight now that the Reform U.K. leader has returned to Parliament.

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Nigel Farage and George Cottrell in Brussels in 2020, as the European Parliament ratified the terms of Brexit, which both men campaigned for.
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Britain’s Farage Takes a Page From Trump’s Playbook Amid Investigations

Nigel Farage, the Reform U.K. leader who resigned from Parliament and won back his seat on Thursday, stays on the offensive and says voters don’t care about allegations of financial impropriety.

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Nigel Farage arriving to vote in Walton-on-the-Naze, England, on Thursday.
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