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    <text>British prime minister Andy Burnham says that the United Kingdom will offer Saudi Arabia aerial refueling in its ongoing conflict with the Houthis. </text>
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    <text>The Office for National Statistics reports that inflation in the United Kingdom rose to 2.9% last month amidst the Iran war. </text>
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      <text>The United Kingdom lifts its travel advisory for the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and the Riyadh and Eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia after the signing of the peace deal. </text>
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    <text>The United Kingdom lifts its travel advisory for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and the Riyadh and Eastern provinces of Saudi Arabia after the signing of the peace deal. </text>
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      <text>Stocks in the United Kingdom increase amidst hopes of new US-Iran talks. </text>
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      <text>A long-lost version of the Magna Carta, dating to 1300 in the reign of King Edward I, is believed to have been found at Harvard University, United States. </text>
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      <text>A long-lost version of the Magna Carta, dating to 1300, is believed to have been found at Harvard University. </text>
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    <text>A long-lost version of the British Magna Carta, dating to 1300 in the reign of King Edward I, is believed to have been found at Harvard University in the United States. </text>
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      <text>Foreign ministers and senior officers of Arab countries, the European Union, United States, United Kingdom and Turkey hold in Riyadh a series of diplomatic meetings focused on Syria. </text>
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  <text>The United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics reports that deaths linked to cocaine use have overtaken deaths from heroin in England and Wales for the first time on record. The increase in deaths from cocaine use is blamed on increased purity of the drug and its widespread availability across the UK in recent years. </text>
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