2011年8月17日星期三

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

New letters bring scandal closer to Rupert Murdoch (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:38 PM PDT

AP - Rupert Murdoch is back on the hot seat of Britain's phone hacking scandal after new documents appeared to contradict the testimony of his son and his former right-hand man.

London police charge 1,000th person in riots probe (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 01:53 PM PDT

AP - London police force say more than 1,000 people have now been charged in the unrest that rocked the capital for four days, as human rights groups reiterated concerns that the sentences being handed out nationwide are disproportionate.

Britain's tough justice alarms campaigners (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 12:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Tough prison sentences such as four years for trying to organize a riot via Facebook have triggered alarm in Britain that the government's crackdown over last week's unrest may be too harsh.

Britain says 400,000 Somali children at risk of death (Reuters)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:28 AM PDT

A doctor attached to the Burundian peacekeepers from the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) attend to an internally displaced Somali child at their hospital in the capital Mogadishu August 15, 2011. REUTERS/Omar FarukReuters - Britain said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there, and pledged a further $48 million to aid children and livestock owners.

UK: 400k Somali children to die without more aid (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 11:01 AM PDT

AP - A British government minister says up to 400,000 Somali children could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken.

UK police don't take aim — but critics open fire (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 10:32 AM PDT

A police sniffer dog team take part in a police training exercise at Marylebone train station in London, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)AP - Four nights of arson, looting and violence erupted across England's largest cities and left five people dead.

Britain's Aggressive Riot Arrests Come in for Criticism (The Atlantic Wire)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 06:55 AM PDT

The Atlantic Wire - Police have now charged 1,000 people with crimes related to the recent riots in London, and just like Prime Minster David Cameron promised, the courts are aggressively punishing the offenders. But despite the government's unified rally cry for justice, authorities are drawing criticism for going a little bit overboard. Two men in their early 20s were sentenced to four years in prison for organizing riots on Facebook--riots that never actually happened--and civil rights groups are crying foul.

Shell uncertain about cause of North Sea oil spill (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:19 AM PDT

In this image released by Scotland's government marine surveillance agency on Tuesday Aug 17 2011, a sheen of leaked oil can be seen off the east coast of the country. Royal Dutch Shell has shut down the main leak at one of its North Sea oil rigs but struggled Tuesday to repair a secondary spill in a hard to reach part of the ocean floor. The company estimated Monday that 54,600 gallons of oil had spilled into the North Sea, and the leak was continuing at 5 barrels a day. At its largest point the oil sheen, or oil on the surface of the water, covered an area 19 miles wide by 2.7 miles long (31 kilometers by 4.3 kilometers). Most of it has now been dispersed by strong waves. The Gannet Alpha oil rig, 112 miles (180 kilometers) east of the city of Aberdeen, is operated by Shell and co-owned by Shell and Esso, a subsidiary of the U.S. oil firm Exxon Mobil.The BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year dumped 206 million gallons of oil. (AP Photo/ Marine Scotland)AP - Royal Dutch Shell says it still does not know what caused the worst North Sea oil spill in a decade but the leak is now only pumping one barrel — or 42 gallons — of oil into the cold water per day.

Bank of England unanimous on keeping rates down (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:04 AM PDT

AP - The Bank of England's nine-member rate-setting panel voted unanimously to keep its main interest rate at the record low of 0.5 percent in August because of slowing growth and heightened tensions in financial markets.

SABMiller in hostile $10 billion bid for Foster's (AP)

Posted: 17 Aug 2011 02:15 AM PDT

AP - SABMiller PLC, one of the world's largest brewers, has launched a hostile $10 billion bid Wednesday for Australian rival Foster's Group Ltd. after its board rejected a takeover offer.

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