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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Pakistan key to fixing Afghanistan: British military chief (AFP)

Posted: 01 Feb 2009 12:04 AM CST

A British soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) stands guard during a patrol on the outskirts of Kabul. Peace will only come to Afghanistan if Pakistan can sort out the militants on its side of the border, where US strikes are not helping, the head of Britain's armed forces told The Sunday Times newspaper.(AFP/File/Shah Marai)AFP - Peace will only come to Afghanistan if Pakistan can sort out the militants on its side of the border, where US strikes are not helping, the head of Britain's armed forces told The Sunday Times newspaper.

British PM slams strikers in EU workers row (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 07:43 PM CST

Police watch protesters outside the Total Lindsey oil refinery in Immingham, near Grimsby, north-east England. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown branded wildcat strikes indefensible as he sought to defuse a row over foreign workers and stop industrial action spreading across Britain this week.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown branded wildcat strikes indefensible as he sought to defuse a row over foreign workers and stop industrial action spreading across Britain this week.

UK gov't seeks end to protests over foreign labor (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 02:34 PM CST

Demonstrators gather at dawn at Total's Lindsey oil refinery near Immingham, north east England Friday Jan. 30, 2009. Seven hundred employees at a Scottish refinery walked out Friday, joining a growing campaign of protests against foreign citizens being hired for an oil industry construction project in England. The protests were provoked by an Italian company's decision to use Italian and Portuguese workers for a 200 million-pound ($280 million) project at the Total's Lindsey refinery. (AP Photo/Jon Super).AP - In the face of growing protests and rising unemployment, the British government said Saturday it understands the frustration of energy workers who have walked out over the hiring of foreign citizens. But it warned against protectionism, saying isolating the British economy would only make the downturn worse.

Hamas needs to be part of peace process: Blair (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 12:33 PM CST

Tony Blair, Head of the Middle-East Quartet and Member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum attends a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos January 29, 2009. (Pascal Lauener/Reuters)Reuters - Hamas should be part of the Middle East peace process, Tony Blair, envoy to the region of the international "quartet" of powers, said in comments published on Friday.

China's Wen in Britain as world seeks crisis fix (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 08:29 AM CST

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao walks through Chinatown in London January 31, 2009. (Andrew Winning/Reuters)Reuters - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in London on Saturday in the latest leg of a European tour aimed at tackling the global financial and economic crisis and improving relations between the trading partners.

Its a catastrophe for the apostrophe in Britain (AP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 08:26 AM CST

A street sign naming St. Paul's Square without an apostrophe is seen in Birmingham, England, Thursday Jan. 29, 2009. An English local government has decided to stop using apostrophes in its street signs, saying they are confusing, old fashioned and interfere with modern GPS systems. Britain's self appointed guardians of the English language are outraged. (AP Photo/David Jones, PA)AP - On the streets of Birmingham, the queen's English is now the queens English.

Man detained over Croydon stabbing (AFP)

Posted: 31 Jan 2009 06:07 AM CST

A man is being questioned by police after a father was stabbed to death in front of his young daughter as they went to hospital to see his new born son.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - A man is being questioned by police on Saturday after a father was stabbed to death in front of his young daughter as they went to hospital to see his new born son.

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