2010年9月11日星期六

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

UK says needs global military force post-Afghan (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:52 PM PDT

British soldiers from the First Battalion The Royal Welsh mobilise for Operation Moshtarak, a combined force of 15,000 troops launching major assaults on Taliban strongholds in Helmand Province, at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan February 13, 2010. REUTERS/SSgt Will Craig/The British Army/Ministry of Defence/Crown Copyright/HandoutReuters - British Defense Secretary Liam Fox said on Saturday that Britain's "battle against terrorism" in Afghanistan was not the end of the global struggle, and the country must be prepared to act elsewhere in future.

Gambia frees British man jailed for sedition: Foreign Office (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 11:23 AM PDT

A British missionary has been freed from a Gambian prison after being jailed in 2008 for criticising the West African state's president, the Foreign Office in London said. David Fulton, 61, and his wife Fiona became the first foreigners to be convicted of sedition charges in the Gambia in December 2008, after they admitted criticising President Yahya Jammeh, pictured here in 2006.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - A British missionary has been freed from a Gambian prison after being jailed in 2008 for criticising the West African state's president, the Foreign Office in London said Saturday.

Catholics in England suffered long repression (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 09:58 AM PDT

In this photo taken Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010, Lord Camoys speaking to the Associated Press in the 14th century chapel next to his country home in Stonor, England. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)AP - For nearly three centuries after the Reformation, Catholics in England were outlaws.

UK says missionary freed from Gambian jail (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 08:57 AM PDT

AP - Britain's Foreign Office says that a missionary has been freed from a Gambian jail after serving nearly two years for sedition.

UK economy in 'great danger': TUC (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 03:56 AM PDT

Commuters crowd around a bus at Victoria Station in central London on September 7 as workers on London's Underground train system started a 24-hour strike over staffing cuts. The government's programme of drastic spending cuts is putting the British economy in AFP - The government's programme of drastic spending cuts is putting the British economy in "great danger", the Trades Union Congress has warned ahead of its annual conference opening in Manchester on Monday.

UK school holidays 'should be shorter' to help poor (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 02:46 AM PDT

Immigrant labourers pick oranges in Seville in January 2009. UK school summer holidays were made long when children were paid to to go fruit picking and an adviser to UK Prime Minister David Cameron says school breaks should now be shortened.(AFP/File/Cristina Quicler)AFP - School holidays in Britain should be shortened and the extended summer holiday should be abolished in order to help poorer children, according to an adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron.

British soldier shot in Afghanistan dies of injuries (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:53 AM PDT

British soldiers walk towards a military helicopter in Helmand province in March 2010. A British soldier who was injured in southern Afghanistan last month has died in hospital in Birmingham, central England, the Ministry of Defence said Saturday.(AFP/Pool/File/Massoud Hossaini)AFP - A British soldier who was injured in southern Afghanistan last month has died in hospital in Birmingham, central England, the Ministry of Defence said Saturday.

Proms attract record numbers (AFP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2010 01:42 AM PDT

Patriotic revellers queue to get into the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms in September 2009. The BBC Proms annual orchestral music festival in London has attracted a record number of people in 2010, the broadcaster announced ahead of Saturday's famous Last Night of the Proms spectacular.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The BBC Proms annual orchestral music festival in London has attracted a record number of people this year, the broadcaster announced ahead of Saturday's famous 'Last Night of the Proms' spectacular.

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