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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Labour heading for electoral disaster: poll (AFP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:21 AM CDT

Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party is set to lose more than half its MPs at the next election and hand control of parliament to the opposition Conservatives, a poll has found.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour party is set to lose more than half its MPs at the next election and hand control of parliament to the opposition Conservatives, a poll has said.

Bomb attack on British convoy injures Iraqi (AP)

Posted: 05 Oct 2008 03:07 AM CDT

Iraq director of antiquities and museums, Amira Eidan, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad September 24, 2008. In Iraq's national museum, a frieze shows an Assyrian king, whose former capital is now in modern Iraq, besieging what looks like a walled town as soldiers pile decapitated heads at his feet. Picture taken September 24, 2008. (Ceerwan Aziz/Reuters)AP - Officials say a roadside bomb attack on a British convoy in Basra has injured an Iraqi civilian.

UK official: Taliban part of Afghan solution (AP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:47 PM CDT

German Bundeswehr army soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) get a briefing at the army base in Kunduz before leaving for a mission to Taloqan, west of Kunduz, October 5, 2008. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch (AFGHANISTAN)AP - Decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may well be part of a long-term solution for the country, the senior British commander in Afghanistan was quoted as saying Sunday.

Commander expects no clear Afghan victory: report (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:38 PM CDT

British soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force sit on top of their armoured vehicle at Camp Bastion in Helmand Province in August 2008. The top military commander in Afghanistan said in an interview Sunday the public should not expect AFP - The top military commander in Afghanistan said in an interview Sunday the public should not expect "decisive military victory" there, only the reduction of the insurgency to manageable levels.

Thousands rally in London to end child poverty (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 02:51 PM CDT

School children stand outside Windsor Castle in 2006. Thousands gathered in London's Trafalgar Square on Saturday to urge the British government to commit more money to tackling child poverty, which it has promised to end by 2020.(AFP/File/Adrian Dennis)AFP - Thousands gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday to urge the government to commit more money to tackling child poverty, which it has promised to end by 2020.

Somali gunmen raid British aid group's office (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 11:15 AM CDT

Mogadishu residents flee with their belongings from the embattled Somali capital in September 2008. Somali gunmen pillaged the office of a Britain-based aid group operating in the lawless country's capital, officials and witnesses said Saturday.(AFP/File/Abdirashid Abdulle)AFP - Somali gunmen pillaged the office of a Britain-based aid group operating in the lawless country's capital, officials and witnesses said Saturday.

Mosley to take privacy battle to EU court (AFP)

Posted: 04 Oct 2008 06:05 AM CDT

President of the FIA (International Automobile Federation) Max Mosley (C) leaves the High Court in central London, July 2008. Mosley will challenge Britain in the European Court of Human Rights, demanding changes to the country's privacy laws, The Guardian has reported.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - World motorsport chief Max Mosley will challenge Britain in the European Court of Human Rights, demanding changes to the country's privacy laws, The Guardian reported on Saturday.

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