2011年5月3日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Britain pushes for Japan UN security seat after meeting (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:05 PM PDT

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto, pictured in April 2011. Britain on Tuesday backed Japan's claim for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and promised to support its economic integration with the EU after the two nations' foreign ministers met in London.(AFP/File/Jewel Samad)AFP - Britain on Tuesday backed Japan's claim for a permanent seat on the UN Security Council and promised to support its economic integration with the EU after the two nations' foreign ministers met in London.

Britain Arrests Five for Filming Nuclear Plant (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:11 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - The five Londoners had been filming the nuclear site, police said, and were picked up under a British anti-terrorism statute, "which allows officers to arrest people suspected of terrorist offences and hold them for 48 hours without charge," Reuters reported. N

Ian Tomlinson unlawfully killed at G20: inquest (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:45 PM PDT

Protestors wave placards at the spot where the newspaper seller died during the G20 demonstrations near the Bank of England in London in 2009. Tomlinson was unlawfully killed by a police riot squad officer, an inquest jury has ruled.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - A man caught up in the 2009 London G20 protests was unlawfully killed by a riot squad officer, an inquest jury ruled Tuesday, re-opening the possibility that the policeman could be prosecuted.

Japan urges easing of trade curbs after nuclear crisis (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 12:23 PM PDT

Reuters - Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto called on Tuesday for the easing of restrictions on Japanese food imports imposed after the earthquake and tsunami that led to a radiation leak from a Japanese nuclear plant.

Hamas unity bid on Netanyahu's Europe agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:50 AM PDT

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the official ceremony opening Holocaust Remembrance Day, at Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem May 1, 2011. REUTERS/Baz RatnerReuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to use a visit to Britain and France to portray Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's unity deal with Hamas Islamists as a blow to already dim prospects for peace.

Royal newlyweds return to tranquil island home (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 10:46 AM PDT

Prince William and his wife Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, walk hand in hand from Buckingham Palace in London, in April 2011. The couple are settling back down to normal life at their secluded home in Wales as he returns to work as a helicopter pilot before they take their honeymoon.(AFP/POOL/File/John Stillwell)AFP - Prince William and his bride Catherine were getting back to normal life at their secluded home on Tuesday as the groom went back on duty as a helicopter pilot ahead of their honeymoon.

UK says bin Laden must have had Pakistani support (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:40 AM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron speaks to the media after meeting with his Slovenian counterpart Borut Pahor, at number 10 Downing Street in London April 12, 2011. REUTERS/Stefan WermuthReuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden must have had a support network in Pakistan, British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday, promising to continue to cooperate with the Pakistanis to fight extremism.

FTSE finishes slightly higher (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 09:08 AM PDT

London shares closed marginally higher as investor sentiment improved.(AFP/File/Ben Stansall)AFP - London shares closed marginally higher on Tuesday as investor sentiment improved.

Prince William back at work after royal wedding (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:39 AM PDT

Britain's Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, walk together in Buckingham Palace, following their wedding on Friday, in central London April 30, 2011. REUTERS/John Stillwell/PoolReuters - It was back to the day job for Britain's Prince William on Tuesday, four days after he married long-term girlfriend Kate Middleton in a royal wedding watched by hundreds of millions of people around the world. The 28-year-old returned to his Royal Air Force (RAF) base in Anglesey, Wales, in time to resume his job as a search and rescue pilot, after a short break at a secret location.

Suspect named in Northampton family murder case (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 08:38 AM PDT

A police handout picture of Anxiang Du, 52. Detectives investigating the killing of a family of four found stabbed to death at their Northampton home have named Du as a suspect they want to question.(Northamptonshire Police)AFP - Detectives investigating the killing of a family of four found stabbed to death at their Northamptonshire home have named a businessman as a suspect they want to question.

5 held under terror laws near UK nuclear plant (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 07:25 AM PDT

FILE - This is a Wednesday May 23, 2007 file photo of the Sellafield Nuclear Power Station in Sellafield, England. Five men were arrested under anti-terrorism laws near the Sellafield plant in northwest England, police said Tuesday May 3, 2011. Cumbria Constabulary said the men were detained under the Terrorism Act near the Sellafield plant on Monday after officers stopped a car. All are from London and in their 20s. They were being held a police station in Manchester, home to the North West Counter Terrorism Unit. (AP Photo/Dave Thompson, File)AP - Five men have been arrested under anti-terrorism laws near a nuclear waste-processing plant in northwest England, police said Tuesday.

British police arrest five men near nuclear plant (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 06:55 AM PDT

The Sellafield nuclear plant in West Cumbria. British police have arrested five men under anti-terrorism legislation close to a nuclear plant, but said the case appeared to be unconnected to the death of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.(AFP/File/Odd Andersen)AFP - British police arrested five men under anti-terrorism legislation close to a nuclear plant, but said Tuesday the case appeared to be unconnected to the death of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.

Back to remote Anglesey in Wales for royal couple (AP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:19 AM PDT

Britain's Prince William kisses his wife Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, on the balcony of Buckhingham Palace, after their wedding service.(AFP/Leon Neal)AP - Britain's most glamorous royal couple is spending this week on an island — just not the kind of island everyone expected.

UK arrests five in terror alert near nuclear site (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 05:06 AM PDT

A view of the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site near Seascale in Cumbria is seen in this April 12, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/David MoirReuters - British police said Tuesday they had arrested five men close to a nuclear reprocessing plant in northwest England under counter-terrorism laws.

FTSE down after bin Laden killing (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 04:18 AM PDT

Shares slipped on Tuesday as London traders returned from a four-day holiday weekend and euphoria faded over the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, analysts said.(AFP/File/Shaun Curry)AFP - Shares slipped on Tuesday as London traders returned from a four-day Bank holiday weekend and euphoria faded over the killing of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, analysts said.

Hamas unity bid on Netanyahu's London-Paris agenda (Reuters)

Posted: 03 May 2011 03:13 AM PDT

Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to use a visit to Britain and France to portray Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's unity deal with Hamas Islamists as a blow to already dim prospects for peace.

Four bodies found in Northampton house (AFP)

Posted: 03 May 2011 02:46 AM PDT

Police have launched an investigation after four bodies were found in a house in Northampton, they said in a statement on Monday.(AFP/Illustration)AFP - Police have launched an investigation after four bodies were found in a house in Northampton, they said in a statement.

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