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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK parties to resume government formation talks (Reuters)

Posted: 09 May 2010 03:16 PM PDT

Britain's Conservative Party foreign affairs spokesman William Hague (2nd L), accompanied by party finance spokesman George Osborne (2nd R) and party official Oliver Letwin (L), speaks to the media after a meeting with Liberal Democrat representatives in London May 9, 2010. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenReuters - Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats will hold further talks on Monday to try to stitch together a deal to govern, with markets anxious for an agreement following an inconclusive election.

'Mountain to climb' for UK parties to reach deal (AP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 02:28 PM PDT

Britain's Conservatives party shadow Foreign Secretary William Hague, center, talks to members of the media as George Osborne, left, shadow finance minister, looks on as they arrive for their meeting with representatives of the Liberal Democrats party, in central London, Sunday May 9, 2010. Conservatives and Liberal Democrats were holding coalition government talks at the Cabinet Office following the previous week's indecisive general election. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - The two parties that could form Britain's next government held hours of closed-door talks Sunday without reaching a power-sharing deal, and there are fears that the political uncertainty could stoke market jitters when trading reopens Monday.

British parties hail 'positive' power-sharing talks (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 01:52 PM PDT

British opposition Conservative party Leader David Cameron and his wife Samantha arrive for a church service in Kensington, west London. Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats held AFP - Britain's Conservatives and Liberal Democrats held "very positive" power-sharing talks Sunday seeking to break the country's post-election stalemate, they said.

UK's Brown meets Lib Dem leader Clegg (Reuters)

Posted: 09 May 2010 10:24 AM PDT

Reuters - Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown held a meeting on Sunday with Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg, who is trying to clinch an agreement with the Conservative Party to govern together.

Markets watch for clear British election outcome (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 05:38 AM PDT

A stock broker sits in front of a display board at the stock exchange in Frankfurt/M., western Germany. Already-jittery markets will reopen Monday hoping for a decisive result from Britain's power-sharing talks as they seek a stable government with the power to tackle the deficit and secure the recovery(AFP/DDP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - Already jittery markets will reopen Monday hoping for a decisive outcome from Britain's post-election talks to form a stable government that can tackle the deficit and secure economic recovery.

British embassy in Yemen reopens after failed attack (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 03:01 AM PDT

Concrete barriers outside the main entrance of the British embassy in Sanaa. The British embassy in Yemen has reopened almost two weeks after it was closed when its ambassador narrowly escaped a suicide bombing that targeted his convoy.(AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)AFP - The British embassy in Yemen reopened on Sunday almost two weeks after it was closed when its ambassador narrowly escaped a suicide bombing that targeted his convoy.

British opposition parties resume talks (AFP)

Posted: 09 May 2010 02:45 AM PDT

Opposition Conservative party Shadow Foreign Secretary, William Hague (left), and Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, arrive for meetings with Lib Dem representatives at the Cabinet Office in central London. The two main opposition parties dug in for post-election talks on forming a government, fighting to overcome policy differences and break the political deadlock.(AFP/Leon Neal)AFP - Britain's two main opposition parties resumed efforts Sunday to break a post-election deadlock which has left the country in political limbo, still battling to overcome major policy differences.

Press piles pressure on Clegg to decide (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 11:56 PM PDT

Sunday newspapers said the key to forming a new government after the inconclusive election would depend on how far Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg would bend on electoral reform(AFP/Ben Stansall)AFP - Sunday newspapers said the key to forming a new government after the inconclusive election would depend on how far Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg would bend on electoral reform.

16,000 voters cost Tories clear win: experts (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 10:45 PM PDT

Conservative Party leader David Cameron is featured on newspaper front pages. The Conservatives would have won a parliamentary majority had just 16,000 people in 19 constituencies voted differently, experts said Sunday as they analysed the election results(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - The Conservatives would have won a parliamentary majority had just 16,000 people in 19 constituencies voted differently, experts said Sunday as they analysed the election results.

Markets watch anxiously for British election outcome (AFP)

Posted: 08 May 2010 09:37 PM PDT

A stock broker sits in front of a display board at the stock exchange in Frankfurt/M., western Germany. Already-jittery markets will reopen Monday hoping for a decisive result from Britain's power-sharing talks as they seek a stable government with the power to tackle the deficit and secure the recovery(AFP/DDP/File/Thomas Lohnes)AFP - Already-jittery markets will reopen Monday hoping for a decisive result from Britain's power-sharing talks as they seek a stable government with the power to tackle the deficit and secure the recovery.

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