2010年2月27日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Conservative party seeks to arrest poll slide (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 01:46 PM PST

Conservative Party leader David Cameron, pictured in January 2010, denied his policies were not bold enough after the party's lead over ruling Labour was cut from 20 percent to as little as five points in a year.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - Conservatives sought Saturday to arrest their fast-disappearing lead in opinion polls, with a general election to take place within months.

Britain to investigate passport ordeal in Israel (Reuters)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 09:04 AM PST

The father of senior Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh poses with a picture of his son outside his family's house in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip February 22, 2010. REUTERS/Mohammed SalemReuters - The British embassy in Israel said an investigator was flown in this week to interview 10 dual Israeli-British citizens whose British passports may have been used in the assassination of a Hamas commander in Dubai.

Insurer Prudential in AIA bid: report (AFP)

Posted: 27 Feb 2010 06:46 AM PST

A logo of the Prudential, Britain's second-biggest insurance group, is pictured in London in 2006. British insurer Prudential is in talks to buy AIA, the Asian arm of US giant AIG, for $25 billion, Sky News television has reported.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - Insurer Prudential is in talks to buy AIA, the Asian arm of US giant AIG, for 25 billion dollars, Sky News television reported Saturday.

British army chief aims for Afghan pullout in 5 yrs (AFP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 09:21 PM PST

British Chief of the General Staff General Sir David Richards (L) meets Afghan President Hamid Karzai in London in January. The war in Afghanistan will die down next year and British troops could be withdrawn within five years, Richards said in a newspaper interview Saturday.(AFP/Pool/File/Tim Ireland)AFP - The war in Afghanistan will die down next year and British troops could be withdrawn within five years, the head of the British army said in a newspaper interview Saturday.

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