2011年1月3日星期一

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Israel arrests staff from British consulate (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:25 PM PST

A general view of the old city of Jerusalem. Israeli authorities have arrested two locally hired workers at the British consulate general in Jerusalem who were reportedly linked to a plot to attack a stadium, the Foreign Office in London said.(AFP/File/Ahmad Gharabli)AFP - Israeli authorities have arrested two locally hired workers at the British consulate general in Jerusalem who were reportedly linked to a plot to attack a stadium, the Foreign Office in London said.

Israel arrests 2 UK consulate workers in Jerusalem (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:07 PM PST

AP - Two local maintenance workers at the U.K. consulate in Jerusalem have been arrested by Israeli authorities on suspicion of selling weapons to Hamas militants, officials said Monday.

Sexual motive 'not ruled out' in Bristol murder (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:17 AM PST

Police investigating the murder of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates say they have not ruled out a AFP - Police investigating the murder of Bristol landscape architect Joanna Yeates say they have not ruled out a "sexual motive" in the killing.

Israel arrests 2 British consulate staff in gun probe (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 09:10 AM PST

Reuters - Israel said on Monday it had charged two local employees of the British Consulate General in Jerusalem with arms trafficking as part of an investigation into an alleged plot to fire a rocket into a football stadium.

Government warned on scrapping control orders (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:52 AM PST

An armed police officer stands guard as the area around Hyde Park Corner is evacuated during a security alert in central London on October 6, 2010. The British government would get rid of its measures to detain terror suspects AFP - The government would get rid of its measures to detain terror suspects "at their peril", its independent reviewer of anti-terror laws said Monday.

VAT rise will cost jobs, warns Miliband (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:49 AM PST

The increase in VAT will hit families hard and put 250,000 jobs at risk, Labour leader Ed Miliband has warned.(AFP/File/Leon Neal)AFP - The increase in VAT will hit families hard and put 250,000 jobs at risk, Ed Miliband has warned.

Tributes to soldier killed in Helmand (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:43 AM PST

British soldier Joseva Saqanagonedau Vatubua, 24, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 5th Battalion The Royal Regiment of Scotland, was killed on New Year's Day near the Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand Province. His family have described him as AFP - The family of a British soldier killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on New Year's Day have described him as "a hugely loved man".

Actor Pete Postlethwaite dead at 64 (AFP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 05:36 AM PST

Actor Pete Postlethwaite, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role in AFP - Pete Postlethwaite, who earned an Oscar nomination for his role in "In the Name of the Father", has died aged 64 following a lengthy illness, a friend announced Monday.

Oscar-nominated star Pete Postlethwaite dies at 64 (AP)

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 03:10 AM PST

FILE -A Wednesday, June 9, 2004 photo from files showing British actor Peter Postlethwaite displaying his Order of the British Empire or OBE, shortly after the presentation at Buckingham Palace in London. Britain's Press Association is reporting Monday, Jan. 3, 2011 that decorated film actor Pete Postlethwaite has died at the age of 64. It quotes longtime friend Andrew Richardson as saying Monday that Postlethwaite died in hospital in Shropshire, central England, after a long illness. Richardson said Postlethwaite died Sunday. He had been receiving treatment for cancer. (AP Photo /Kirsty Wigglesworth/ Pool)AP - Oscar-nominated British actor Pete Postlethwaite, described by director Steven Spielberg as "the best actor in the world," has died at age 64 after a long battle with cancer.

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