2011年8月14日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain


UK's Cameron: will mend "broken society" after riots (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:33 PM PDT

Reuters - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday his government would mend Britain's "broken society" to prevent a repeat of the country's worst riots in decades.

Cameron: Riot-hit UK must reverse `moral collapse' (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 04:10 PM PDT

Shazad Ali and Abdul Musavir's brother Abdul Qudoos, center, is supported by friends as he speaks at a peace rally a peace rally in Summerfield Park, Birmingham, England Sunday Aug. 14, 2011. Community groups held a peace rally Sunday in England's second-largest city against the hit-and-run attack that claimed three lives during rioting in Birmingham. Scores of people gathered in Winson Green, where three Muslim men — Haroon Jahan, 20, and brothers Shazad Ali, 30, and Abdul Musavir, 31 — were mowed down and mortally wounded Wednesday when a car struck them at high speed. The trio had been with a larger group guarding a row of Pakistani-owned shops from looters.  (AP Photo/Rui Vieira/PA Wire)   UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - Prime Minister David Cameron declared Monday that Britain faces a battle to find its moral compass following four days of riots that left five people dead, thousands facing charges for violence and theft, and at least 200 million pounds ($350 million) in property losses.


6 dead, 1 arrested in knife attack on British isle (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 02:41 PM PDT

British forensic police attend the scene after six people were killed in a knife attack, Sunday Aug. 14, 2011, in St Helier, Jersey, England.  A man is reported to have been arrested Sunday on suspicion of fatally stabbing six people, including two young children, two men and two women, on the British island of Jersey, police said, and unidentified neighbors declared that the incident may have involved members of the same family. (AP Photo / Ian Le Sueur, PA) UNITED KINGDOM OUT - NO SALES - NO ARCHIVESAP - A man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of stabbing six people to death, including three children, on the British island of Jersey in what was the deadliest crime in the community's living memory, police said.


AP ENTERPRISE: UK gangs thrive in August riots (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 10:56 AM PDT

In this Tuesday Aug. 9, 2011 photo, youths run from an electronics store in Birmingham, England as disturbances saw looting and vehicles set alight. As Britain comes to grips with the causes of the past week's descent into anarchy, Prime Minister David Cameron has identified the growth of gangs as a key factor and is recruiting high-profile American anti-gang experts to help bring them to heel. (AP Photo/David Jones/PA Wire)  UNITED KINGDOM OUTAP - The Burger Bar Boys. The Cash or Slash Money Crew. The Bang Bang Gang. These names sound straight out of a dime-store novel, but they're real-life Birmingham gangs — some of the underground armies that spearheaded England's worst riots in a generation.


Essay: My shaken London, viewed from the outside (AP)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 07:02 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2011 file photo, firefighters and riot police survey the area as fire rages through a building in Tottenham, north London, as a demonstration against the death of a local man turned violent and cars and shops were set ablaze. (AP Photo/PA, Lewis Whyld, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT, NO SALES,  NO ARCHIVESAP - London neighborhoods on fire. Violence and looting shaking other British cities to the core. On TV, a parade of frightened, angry and deeply unsettled faces. From the outside, it looked as if my nation and its most identifiable city were being ripped asunder.


Switzerland likely to strike tax deal with Britain soon: source (Reuters)

Posted: 14 Aug 2011 06:58 AM PDT

Reuters - Switzerland's banking association head is hopeful the country will finalize a tax deal with Britain in the coming weeks, Patrick Odier was quoted as saying on Sunday in an interview with Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung.
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