Yahoo! News: World - Britain

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• Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder (Reuters)
• Megrahi says his Lockerbie role exaggerated (Reuters)
• UK: Murderer who abandoned body in suitcase jailed (AP)
• 2 Russian oligarchs in British court case (AP)
• BBC:Haqqani says US wants him to join Afghan gov't (AP)
• UK's Osborne demands urgent decision on Greece (AP)
• S&P warns UK against wavering on deficit cuts (Reuters)

Italian appeal court clears Amanda Knox of murder (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 03:50 PM PDT Reuters - An Italian court cleared 24-year-old American Amanda Knox and her former boyfriend of the 2007 killing of British student Meredith Kercher and ordered they be freed on Monday after nearly four years in prison for a crime they always denied committing.

Megrahi says his Lockerbie role exaggerated (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:59 AM PDT Reuters - Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people, said his role in the attack had been exaggerated and the truth about what really happened would emerge soon.

UK: Murderer who abandoned body in suitcase jailed (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 11:29 AM PDT AP - A British court has sentenced a man to at least 24 years in prison for killing a woman and leaving her body in a suitcase at Heathrow Airport.

2 Russian oligarchs in British court case (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 10:25 AM PDT AP - Self-exiled Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky accused fellow tycoon Roman Abramovich of betraying and blackmailing him, as the two former business partners squared off Monday in a London courtroom in a multibillion dollar lawsuit over an oil deal.

BBC:Haqqani says US wants him to join Afghan gov't (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:58 AM PDT AP - A BBC report quoted Afghan insurgent leader Siraj Haqqani on Monday as saying he's been approached by the United States to join the Afghan government and denying that his militant group was behind the killing of the top Afghan peace envoy.

UK's Osborne demands urgent decision on Greece (AP) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 09:26 AM PDT AP - Europe must urgently decide on the fate of Greece's crisis-wracked economy and expand the size of the continent's bailout fund, Britain's Treasury chief George Osborne said Monday.

S&P warns UK against wavering on deficit cuts (Reuters) Posted: 03 Oct 2011 05:48 AM PDT Reuters - Britain's prized triple-A sovereign debt rating could come under pressure if the government strays from its path of public deficit cuts in the face of weaker growth, credit agency Standard & Poor's said on Monday.

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