2011年9月11日星期日

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


In Russia, UK's Cameron seeks trade and new ties (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 02:22 PM PDT

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, front, visits Russian Armament Exhibition in the Urals city of Nizhniy Tagil on Friday, Sept. 9, 2011. (AP photo/ RIA Novosti, Alexei Druzhinin, pool)AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in Russia for a rare visit Sunday, seeking to secure crucial new trade and warmer ties with an often difficult ally, five years after the poisoning death of a Kremlin critic in London exposed bitter differences.


UK's Osborne says expects broad EU treaty change in 1-2 years (Reuters)

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 02:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Europe could agree to broad changes to existing legislation within a year or two that would pave the way for greater fiscal integration of members of the euro zone, British finance minister George Osborne said.

Pakistan president undergoes tests in London (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 09:45 AM PDT

Eight-year-old Rabel, a girl of Afghan descent, carries dry wood to be used for cooking fuel to her home in an Afghan refugee village on the outskirts of Karachi September 11, 2011. REUTERS/Akhtar SoomroAP - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has recently undergone medical tests in London and received a clean bill of health.


5 arrested in UK suspected of enslaving 24 people (AP)

Posted: 11 Sep 2011 09:11 AM PDT

AP - Five people have been arrested in Britain on suspicion of holding two dozen men in squalid conditions against their will and forcing them to work for no pay, police said Sunday.
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