2009年7月5日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

One British soldier killed in Afghanistan (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 04:42 PM PDT

Reuters - A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Defense Ministry said, the fifth to die in five days as UK forces take part in a major U.S.-led offensive against Taliban strongholds.

3 British soldiers killed in southern Afghanistan (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 03:02 PM PDT

In this photo taken Saturday, July 4, 2009, an Afghan police officer carries his gun on his shoulder, as a destroyed vehicle is seen in the background following a suicide attack in Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital of Helmand province south of Kabul, Afghanistan. An Afghan civilian was killed and five others were wounded in the attack, Afghan police officials said. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)AP - Insurgent attacks killed three British soldiers in the southern Afghanistan region where thousands of U.S. Marines pushed forward with the American military's biggest anti-Taliban offensive since the hard-line Islamist regime was toppled.

Zoo evacuated after chimps escape (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 01:01 PM PDT

A chimpanzee licks a giant ice lolly as it cools down in the hot weather at Chester Zoo on July 2, 2009. The zoo was evacuated on Sunday after about 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure.(AFP/File/Andrew Yates)AFP - A zoo was evacuated on Sunday after about 30 chimpanzees escaped from their enclosure.

Iran: British-Greek reporter held for weeks freed (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 10:58 AM PDT

FILE-- This is an undated handout image from Global Radio News issued on Thursday June 25, 2009 of Global Radio News freelance correspondent and The Washington Times reporter Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, known as Jason Fowden, who is holds Greek and British dual nationality . Iran's state television is reporting that a Greek journalist that had been held for more than two weeks has been released. State television Sunday July 5, 2009 quoted a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hasan Qashqavi, as saying that Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden had been released in, what he described as the framework of Tehran-Athens ties. Athanasiadis-Fowden was arrested on or around June 19. He has dual Greek and British citizenship and was believed to be the only foreigner being held by Iranian authorities in the post-election crackdown that has swept the country. (AP Photo/ Global Radio News, FILE )AP - Iran said Sunday it has released a British-Greek journalist detained for two weeks during its postelection crackdown as opposition forces pressing their claims of fraud called for parliament to dismiss President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Church of England bishop says gays should 'repent' (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 10:46 AM PDT

AP - A senior Church of England bishop has angered gay-rights campaigners by saying homosexuals should repent.

Incoming MI6 chief in Facebook security slip (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 09:06 AM PDT

British diplomat John Sawers answers questions after a Security Council meeting at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Photographs and personal details about Sawers -- the next head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service -- have been removed from Facebook after they were published by a British newspaper.(AFP/File/Emmanuel Dunand)AFP - Photographs and personal details about the next head of Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service, John Sawers, were removed on Sunday from social networking website Facebook after they were published by a British newspaper.

Iran to free eighth British embassy worker: Miliband (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 09:00 AM PDT

Foreign Minister David Miliband, seen here in June 2009, says Iran will release an eighth employee of the British embassy in Tehran. Iran arrested a total of nine local embassy staff on June 28.(AFP/File/John Thys)AFP - Iran is to release an eighth Iranian employee of the British embassy in Tehran later on Sunday, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said, bringing to one the number still in custody.

Two British troops killed in major Afghan push (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 07:15 AM PDT

British soldiers are silhouetted against the sky in southern Afghanistan. Britain's Ministry of Defence has confirmed that two British soldiers were killed this weekend during a major assault on a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - Two British soldiers and two police officers were killed in southern Afghanistan as thousands of troops have moved into Taliban strongholds ahead of August polls, officials said on Sunday.

UK spy chief's family details posted on Facebook (AP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 03:42 AM PDT

AP - He's the spy who came in from the beach.

Two British soldiers killed in Afghan assault (AFP)

Posted: 05 Jul 2009 02:45 AM PDT

British soldiers are silhouetted against the sky in southern Afghanistan. Britain's Ministry of Defence has confirmed that two British soldiers were killed this weekend during a major assault on a Taliban stronghold in Helmand province.(AFP/File/John D Mchugh)AFP - Two British soldiers were killed this weekend during a major assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said Sunday.

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