Spy Chief in Britain Opens Door a Bit to Press
Thursday, den 8. January 2009One hundred years after Britain’s domestic intelligence agency was founded, its director general, Jonathan Evans, became the first head of the agency to grant an interview.
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Australia Says No on Detainees, and Britain Is Reluctant
Saturday, den 3. January 2009Australia said it had rejected U.S. requests to accept detainees from the prison at Guantánamo Bay as Washington moves to close the notorious camp.
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British Defy Court on Iraqi Suspects
Thursday, den 1. January 2009Two men accused of killing British soldiers have been turned over to the Iraqi authorities in defiance of the European Court of Human Rights.
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World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Animal Activists Convicted
Wednesday, den 24. December 2008Four animal rights activists were convicted Tuesday for mounting a seven-year campaign of blackmail and intimidation against suppliers of an animal testing research center near Cambridge. Three others had previously pleaded guilty. The group’s tactics included threatening phone calls, bomb hoaxes, threats of attacks with H.I.V.-infected needles and sending letters to neighbors falsely accusing the […]
Cruelty to Animals, Huntingdon Life Sciences Group Plc|HTDLY|other-OTC, Animals, Extortion and Blackmail, Great Britain, Threats and Threatening Messages | 0 Kommentar »
Iraqi Parliament Accepts Speaker’s Resignation
Tuesday, den 23. December 2008The Iraqi Parliament also authorized the government to approve a resolution to allow British, Australian and other foreign troops to stay in Iraq after the end of the year.
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World Briefing | Africa: British Official Criticizes Mugabe
Tuesday, den 23. December 2008Britain’s Africa minister said that Britain considered Robert Mugabe “an absolutely impossible obstacle” to carrying out a stalled power-sharing deal.
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London Journal: The Doors Shut on an Emporium Offering a Hodgepodge of Essentials
Tuesday, den 23. December 2008After trying unsuccessfully to find a buyer in a crashing economy, Woolworths announced last week that it was shutting all of its 807 stores in Britain by Jan. 5.
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35 Iraqi Officials Are Held in Raids on Key Ministry
Thursday, den 18. December 2008The arrested officials, who included four generals, have been accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.
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World Briefing | Europe: Britain: Heavy Sentence for a Convicted Bomber
Thursday, den 18. December 2008The judge in a terrorist bombing trial imposed two concurrent life sentences on Dr. Bilal Abdulla, and ruled that he must serve at least 32 years in prison before any chance of parole.
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35 Iraq Officials Held in Raids on Key Ministry
Thursday, den 18. December 2008The arrested officials — which included four generals — have been accused of quietly working to reconstitute Saddam Hussein’s Baath party.
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