Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• British guard pleads self-defence in Iraq trial (AFP)
• UK phone-hacking 'targeted ex-premier Brown' (AFP)
• Scotland seeks to end 20-year US ban on haggis (AFP)
• Briton pleads not guilty in Iraq shooting (AP)
• British soldiers train in mock Afghan village (AP)
• UK celebrities oppose forest selloff plans (AFP)
• Dutchman charged in Yeates murder hunt (AFP)
• U.S, UK lost legitimacy to lead Afghan solution - British MP (Reuters)
• Yukos spectre lurks as Russia fetes BP mega deal (AFP)

British guard pleads self-defence in Iraq trial (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 08:01 AM PST AFP - The British security guard accused of killing two colleagues in the Iraqi capital's Green Zone insisted at his trial on Sunday he acted in self-defence during an alcohol-fuelled brawl.

UK phone-hacking 'targeted ex-premier Brown' (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 06:55 AM PST AFP - Britain's opposition Labour party called Sunday for a fresh police probe into phone-hacking by journalists, amid reports that former prime minister Gordon Brown was among the high-profile figures targeted.

Scotland seeks to end 20-year US ban on haggis (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 06:33 AM PST AFP - Scottish Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead has invited a delegation of American politicians to Scotland in a bid to persuade them to reverse a 20-year ban on the haggis.

Briton pleads not guilty in Iraq shooting (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 08:45 AM PST AP - A British security contractor told an Iraqi court Sunday that he was acting in self-defense when he shot two co-workers, claiming that they had threatened to kill him after a drunken brawl in Baghdad's Green Zone.

British soldiers train in mock Afghan village (AP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 03:25 AM PST AP - Deep in the countryside of eastern England, British troops train in a mock Afghan village designed to look, feel, and sound like the real thing.

UK celebrities oppose forest selloff plans (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:43 AM PST AFP - The Archbishop of Canterbury , singer Annie Lennox and actress Dame Judi Dench are among celebrities and public figures urging the government to scrap plans to sell off England's publicly-owned forests.

Dutchman charged in Yeates murder hunt (AFP) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:42 AM PST AFP - A 32-year-old Dutchman was charged Saturday with the murder of a British woman whose death has dominated the news agenda since her body was discovered on Christmas Day.

U.S, UK lost legitimacy to lead Afghan solution - British MP (Reuters) Posted: 23 Jan 2011 01:10 AM PST Reuters - The United States and Britain have lost the legitimacy and trust necessary to find a resolution to the conflict in Afghanistan, a British MP said on Sunday as Asia's largest literary event turned to politics.

Yukos spectre lurks as Russia fetes BP mega deal (AFP) Posted: 22 Jan 2011 11:42 PM PST AFP - Russia has celebrated the alliance of Rosneft with BP as a historic breakthrough in its economic relations with the West but the deal remains shadowed by the break-up of its former top oil firm Yukos.

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