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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Two soldiers dead in N Ireland army base shooting: police (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 07:02 PM PST

File photo shows two policemen standing guard inside the Stormont Parliament building in Belfast, in Northern Ireland. The last 18 months have seen an upsurge in violent activity from Republicans opposed to the peace process, including more than a dozen unsuccessful murder bids against police officers.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Two soldiers died and four people were wounded in a shooting at a British army base in Northern Ireland, police said, raising fears the province's troubled past may have returned.

Two British military personnel killed in Northern Ireland (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 06:51 PM PST

Reuters - Gunmen struck at a British army base in one of Northern Ireland's worst attacks for years on Saturday, killing two military personnel and seriously wounding four people, police said.

Two dead in N Ireland army base shooting: official (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:42 PM PST

Two people died in a gun attack at an army base in Northern Ireland, a spokesman for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said Saturday.(Royal Engineers)AFP - Two people died in a gun attack at an army base in Northern Ireland, a spokesman for the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service said Saturday.

Ex-detainee says UK supplied torture questions (Reuters)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 03:00 PM PST

Reuters - A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner has accused British intelligence of feeding questions to the CIA that he says were put to him while he was tortured in Pakistani and Moroccan jails.

Guantanamo prisoner tells of dark Afghan prison (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 10:52 AM PST

In this image released by the human rights and legal defense organization Reprieve, Guantanamo detainee and terror suspect Binyam Mohamed is pictured in London, in 2000. Binyam Mohamed, a former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay says his worst months in custody were spent in a dark prison in Afghanistan, where he says he was shackled in uncomfortable positions for days on end and blasted with constant loud music which made sleep impossible. Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was freed from the U.S. prison in Cuba on Feb. 23 after seven years in U.S. custody, described his time in Afghanistan in an interview to be published in The Mail on Sunday newspaper. (AP Photo/Reprieve, files)AP - A former prisoner at Guantanamo Bay says his worst months in custody were spent in a dark prison in Afghanistan, where he says he was shackled in uncomfortable positions for days on end and blasted with constant loud music which made sleep impossible.

Ex-SAS chief in Afghanistan slams 'worthless' war (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 09:33 AM PST

British soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) sit on top of their armoured vehicle in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, August 2008. Military operations in Afghanistan are AFP - Military operations in Afghanistan are "worthless," with British NATO forces unable to hold ground against Taliban insurgents, the former chief of British special forces there said in an interview published Saturday.

F1 hero Stewart waives RBS fee (AFP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 09:01 AM PST

British former motor racing world champion Jackie Stewart with his wife Helen, seen here in 2006. Stewart will forego payment this year for his work as a global ambassador for Royal Bank of Scotland, the bailed-out bank confirmed Saturday.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AFP - Jackie Stewart, the former motor racing world champion, will forego payment this year for his work as a global ambassador for Royal Bank of Scotland, the bailed-out bank confirmed Saturday.

UK government takes controlling stake in Lloyds (AP)

Posted: 07 Mar 2009 01:53 AM PST

A sign on a branch of Lloyds TSB bank is seen in London, Friday, March 6, 2009. Negotiations continue Friday on a fresh multi-billion pound injection of government money into Lloyds TSB, which may see the Government take a majority stake in the bank. Any agreement will be announced in the London Stock Exchange, according to a government Treasury spokesman. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)AP - The British government has become a majority shareholder in Lloyds Banking Group PLC in exchange for insuring more than 260 billion pounds ($367 billion dollars) in risky assets, the bank said Saturday.

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