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LONDON (Reuters) - Last month was the world’s hottest September on record, with unusually high temperatures recorded off Siberia, in the Middle East, and in parts of South America and Australia, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.

Extending a long-term warming trend caused by emissions of heat-trapping gases, high temperatures this year have played a major role in disasters from fires in California and the Arctic to floods in Asia, scientists say.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to know by Oct. 15 if there is going to be a deal with the European Union because businesses need to prepare, Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman said on Tuesday.

“We do need to be in a position where we’re able to provide certainty to businesses as to what the terms of our future trading relationship with EU are going to be, and we do believe that we need to be able to give clarity on whether or not there’s going to be a deal by the 15th of October,” the spokesman said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices gained on Tuesday amid supply disruptions in Norway, a new hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico, and U.S. President Donald Trump’s return to the White House from hospital.

Brent crude LCOc1 futures were up $1.02, or 2.5%, by 1220 GMT at $42.31 a barrel.

U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures were trading $1.02 higher, or 2.6%, at $40.24 a barrel.

LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised on Tuesday to transform Britain rather than settle for the “status quo” after the coronavirus crisis by building more new homes, improving education, fighting crime and boosting the green economy.

In a speech aimed at rallying his Conservative Party, which has become increasingly critical of its leader, Johnson laid out his vision for Britain, where deep-rooted inequality has been laid bare by the COVID-19 pandemic.

LONDON, Oct 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Four men are due to go on trial in Britain on Monday in connection with the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found in a lorry in southeast England.

The grim discovery of 31 men and eight women inside the container truck on an industrial estate east of London last year threw fresh light on the plight of migrants desperate to reach Britain.

A post-mortem examination found the victims – 10 of them teenagers, including two 15-year-old boys – died from lack of oxygen and overheating in the refrigerated lorry.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the current soaring number of COVID-19 cases was about where government forecasts had predicted so the next weeks would be crucial to see if local lockdowns could get on top of the virus.

“The incidence that we’re seeing in the cases really sort of corresponds to pretty much where we thought we were,” Johnson said after Britain reported a jump in daily COVID-19 cases to a record 22,961 on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) - A tug-of-war over $1 billion worth of Venezuelan gold stored at the Bank of England took a fresh twist on Monday as the English Court of Appeal overturned an earlier High Court ruling on who the UK recognised as the South American country’s president.

The Court of Appeal granted the Nicolas Maduro-backed Banco Central de Venezuela’s appeal and set aside July’s High Court judgement which had found that the UK Government’s recognition of opposition leader Juan Guaidó as “constitutional interim President of Venezuela” was conclusive.

LONDON, Oct 04 (APP): Pakistan High Commission in London on Saturday announced that in order to facilitate the Pakistani Community for Consular Services, the High Commission has started a daily appointment system for Consular Services.

According to a statement of the High Commission issued here said that the appointments for Consular Services (Passport, NADRA, and attestation) could now be requested online from Monday, October 5, 2020 1200 hrs – 2400 hrs on a daily basis.

LONDON, Oct 4 (NNN-XINHUA) – 770 students tested positive for COVID-19 in a British university, in one of the major outbreaks in Britain, since the reopening of campuses in Sept, a university spokesperson said.

The spokesperson for Northumbria University, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, said, all of those students who tested positive are now self-isolating and 78 were displaying symptoms.

Meanwhile, flatmates and any close contacts are also going into isolation, the spokesperson added.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday he did not particularly wish for the Brexit transition period to end without a new trade deal being in place, but that Britain could live with such an outcome.

The transition period ends on Dec. 31 and intensive negotiations are ongoing between London and Brussels. Johnson said a deal was there to be done but there were still difficult issues that needed to be fixed.