2011年8月9日星期二

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

London tries tripling police presence to end riots (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 05:21 PM PDT

A Miss Selfridge shop burns in Market Street in Manchester city centre, England, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. Britain began flooding London's streets with 16,000 police officers Tuesday, nearly tripling their presence as the nation feared its worst rioting in a generation would stretch into a fourth night. The violence has turned buildings into burnt out carcasses, triggered massive looting and spread to other U.K. cities. (AP Photo / Dave Thompson / PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Thousands more police officers flooded London streets Tuesday in a bid to end Britain's worst rioting in a generation as nervous shopkeepers closed early and some residents stood guard to protect their neighborhoods. An eerie calm prevailed in the city, but unrest spread across central and northern England on a fourth night of violence driven by poor, diverse and brazen crowds of young people.

Violence erupts outside London but capital quiet (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Council workers clear the remains of destroyed vehicles in Hackney, north London August 9, 2011. REUTERS/Chris HelgrenReuters - Violence flared in English cities and towns Tuesday night but London, where thousands of extra police had been deployed, was largely peaceful after three turbulent nights in which youths rampaged across the capital virtually unchecked.

Social media used to spread Britain's riots (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 03:45 PM PDT

A woman walks past a damaged supermarket in Ealing, west London, after a night of rioting, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. In London, groups of young people rampaged for a third straight night, setting buildings, vehicles and garbage dumps alight, looting stores and pelting police officers with bottles and fireworks into early Tuesday. The spreading disorder was an unwelcome warning of the possibility of violence during London's 2012 Summer Olympics, less than a year away. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Some of the text messages read like real-time rallying calls for rioters.

Baseball bats, police batons online sales boom in UK (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:35 AM PDT

Reuters - Sales of baseball bats and batons have shot up more than 5,000 percent in the last 24 hours on Amazon's British website, as London suffered its worst violent unrest in decades.

Ex-Tower of London boss loses unfair firing claim (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:22 AM PDT

AP - An employment tribunal has ruled that Tower of London authorities were justified in firing the governor after he criticized the fort's management and its staff of Beefeaters.

Iran chides UK over riots (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 10:10 AM PDT

EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on leaving the office to report, film or take pictures in Tehran. REUTERS/Raheb HomavandiReuters - Iran urged Britain Tuesday to avoid using force to suppress riots that have rocked London, mischievously turning the tables on Western critics of its own human rights record.

Social networks help Britons clean up after riots (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 09:43 AM PDT

Local residents who volunteered to clean up following rioting, pose for the media in Battersea, south London, Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011. A wave of violence and looting has raged across London since Saturday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. Some 525 arrests have been made in London alone and dozens were arrested in other cities. Police announced Tuesday that plastic bullets would be 'one of the tactics' available to officers to quell the riots. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - They came to restore their city's good name, armed with brooms.

UK police vow to get tough as tactics questioned (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 09:07 AM PDT

Reuters - London police, hampered by past criticism of heavy-handed tactics, vowed to get tough with rioters after three nights of violence but there are questions about how long the force can keep up its massive operation if trouble persists.

Historic 144-year-old store burnt by rioters (AP)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:08 AM PDT

A firefighter sprays water on the furniture store set on fire by rioters last night in Croydon, south London, Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2011. A wave of violence and looting raged across London and spread to three other major British cities Tuesday, as authorities struggled to contain the country's worst unrest since race riots set the capital ablaze in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - For more than 140 years, the House of Reeves was a landmark in Croydon, a family-run business that supplied generations of families as the area changed from a small town to a London suburb.

Fears of more violence after worst London riots for years (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 08:05 AM PDT

Reuters - London braced on Sunday for more violence after some of the worst riots in the British capital for years which politicians and police blamed on criminal thugs but residents attributed to local tensions and anger over hardship.

London burning undermines image ahead of Olympics (Reuters)

Posted: 09 Aug 2011 07:02 AM PDT

Reuters - Riots across London this week could not have come at a worse time for a country preparing to welcome millions of visitors to the Olympics next summer and struggling to attract investment as its economy falters.

Riots spread beyond London on third night of violence (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:02 PM PDT

A man looks at broken glass in a door frame at a McDonalds restaurant after overnight looting in Brixton, south London August 8, 2011. REUTERS/Suzanne PlunkettReuters - Rioting and looting spread across and beyond London on Monday as hooded youths set fire to cars and buildings, smashed shop windows and hurled bottles and stones at police in a third night of violence in Britain's worst unrest in decades.

British Press Agitated Over Report of Soldier Keeping Taliban Fingers (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 08 Aug 2011 12:34 PM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Related: Thomas Friedman on Afghan Corruption

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