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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

11 arrests at anti-Islam protest in England (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 12:21 PM PST

Supporters from the English Defence League (EDL) shout slogans and hold a banner reading 'Pride' during a demonstration in the city centre of Leeds on October 2009. About 500 members of the EDL sang the English national anthem and football songs as they gathered in the city. Eleven men were arrested and a policewoman was taken to hospital Saturday after violence broke out.(AFP/File/Martin Elliott)AFP - Eleven men were arrested and a policewoman was taken to hospital Saturday after violence broke out at a far-right group's demonstration against Islamic extremism in central England, police said.

Cameron doubts 2010 Afghanistan troop withdrawals (AFP)

Posted: 05 Dec 2009 05:57 AM PST

British opposition leader David Cameron has met troops in Afghanistan and said he believes troop withdrawals are unlikely to happen in 2010.(AFP/File/Stefan Rousseau)AFP - Opposition leader David Cameron on Saturday met troops in Afghanistan and said he believed troop withdrawals were unlikely to happen in 2010.

Ex-UN weapons inspector condemns Blair, Bush on Iraq (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 10:13 PM PST

George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, ex-UN weapons inspector Hans Blix, pictured in New York in 2005, said Saturday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Mario Tama)AFP - George W. Bush and Tony Blair's conviction that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was a threat blinded them to the lack of evidence justifying a war to depose him, an ex-UN weapons inspector said Saturday.

Could London lose 'libel capital of the world' crown? (AFP)

Posted: 04 Dec 2009 09:16 PM PST

Senior British judges walk from Westminster Abbey to Westminster Hall in central London. The world's rich and powerful have long chosen London to defend their interests in court, but pressure is mounting for an overhaul in the English laws that saw it named AFP - The world's rich and powerful have long chosen London to defend their interests in court, but pressure is mounting for an overhaul in the English laws that saw it named "libel capital of the world".

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