2008年11月3日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Lloyds-HBOS deal on track (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 02:46 AM CST

The massive takeover of troubled British bank HBOS by rival lender Lloyds TSB remains on track, HBOS said in a statement on Monday(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The massive takeover of troubled British bank HBOS by rival lender Lloyds TSB remains on track, HBOS said in a statement on Monday.

London drum-maker dies of anthrax: hospital (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 01:57 AM CST

This image released by US Department of Defense (DoD) Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program, shows Bacillus anthrax spores. Police will examine the house of a London drum-maker who died after inhaling anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins, the hospital treating him said.(AFP/DoD-HO/File)AFP - Police will Monday examine the house of a London drum-maker who died after inhaling anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins, the hospital treating him said.

Afghanistan negotiations 'very difficult': British PM (AFP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2008 12:29 AM CST

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it would be AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said it would be "very difficult" for Afghanistan to negotiate directly with the Taliban while troops were still being killed there.

British PM expects Saudis to top up IMF bailout fund (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 05:48 PM CST

A handout picture released by the Emir of Qatar's Office shows British Prime Minister Gordon Brown talking during a news conference following a meeting with his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem bin Jabr al-Thani in Doha. Brown said he expected Saudi Arabia to give more money to boost the International Monetary Fund's ability to bail out nations hardest hit by worldwide economic chaos.(AFP/Emir of Qatar's Office/Khalid Muftah)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Sunday he expected Saudi Arabia to give more money to boost the International Monetary Fund's ability to bail out nations hardest hit by worldwide economic chaos.

Troops' homecoming passes peacefully in NIreland (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 07:39 AM CST

Loyalists, supporters of the British troops, shout at Sinn Fein, the political wing of the now disarmed Irish Republican Army, protesters in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The homecoming parade in Belfast for soldiers from Northern Ireland who served in Iraq and Afghanistan passed off peacefully, after concerns that violence would break out.(AFP/Peter Muhly)AFP - A homecoming parade in Belfast for soldiers from Northern Ireland who served in Iraq and Afghanistan passed off peacefully on Sunday, after concerns that violence would break out.

Brown meets ex-Guantanamo detainees in Saudi (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 06:22 AM CST

A handout picture from the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) shows Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal (right) during a meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Riyadh on November 1. Brown has shaken hands with former detainees from the US's Guantanamo Bay detention camp at a deradicalisation centre in Saudi Arabia.(AFP/File)AFP - Prime Minister Gordon Brown shook hands with former detainees from the US's Guantanamo Bay detention camp at a deradicalisation centre in Saudi Arabia Sunday.

More than 1.6 million displaced trapped in Congo crisis: British FM (AFP)

Posted: 02 Nov 2008 05:14 AM CST

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner (left) and his British counterpart David Miliband meet Congolese people at an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in Kibati. Miliband has voiced concern over the fate of 1.6 million displaced people in the Congo. Miliband warned that the Congolese are trapped in the crisis and out of the relief net.(AFP/Walter Astrada)AFP - British Foreign Secretary David Miliband voiced concern on Sunday over the fate of 1.6 million displaced people in the Congo he warned were trapped in the crisis and out of the relief net.

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