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SF Gate
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The British military says an airstrike in Basra has killed four gunmen armed with rocket propelled grenades.
British spokesman Maj. Tom Holloway says the group was attacked just after midnight by a warplane. He says four gunmen died when their vehicle..
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CNN
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Prince Harry is to be pulled out of Afghanistan immediately amid fears for his safety after news of his deployment was made public, the British defense ministry said Friday. The 23-year-old Household Cavalry officer, who has been fighting the Taliban in H..
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CNN
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A British teacher in Sudan jailed over the naming of a teddy bear has been released from police custody, the British Embassy in Khartoum said, several hours after Sudan's president Omar al-Bashir pardoned her. Gillian Gibbons, freed after Sudan's presiden..
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MSNBC
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Iraq will take over security from British troops in Basra province within two months, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki told reporters Tuesday after meeting with Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, who said 1,000 more British troops would be withdrawn b..
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CNN
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Three British soldiers were killed in a suspected "friendly fire" incident involving a bomb dropped from a U.S. fighter plane during a clash with Taliban militants in Afghanistan, military officials said Friday. The three British troops were died during a..
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USA Today
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British police defused a bomb found in a parked car in central London on Friday, and the new government called an emergency meeting of senior security chiefs to investigate what many feared could have been a planned terror attack.
A British security of..
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Guardian Unlimited
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From the serenity of the White House Rose Garden to the chaos of Baghdad and Basra the Tony Blair farewell tour rolled into Iraq yesterday with the Prime Minister insistent that good progress was being made in bringing stability to the country.
His com..
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FOX News
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British anti-terrorist police on Tuesday arrested six people who were suspected of inciting others to commit acts of terrorism overseas and raising funds for terrorism.
Five of the arrests took place in London and one in Luton, northwest of London, the..
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FOX News
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The 15 British sailors and marines held by Iran for nearly two weeks have been granted permission to sell their stories to the media, the Ministry of Defense said Sunday.
The decision has caused unease in Britain, however, with critics suggesting such..
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USA Today
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The British sailors and marines held captive for nearly two weeks in Iran were blindfolded, bound and faced constant psychological pressure, a Royal Navy lieutenant said Friday.
Lt. Felix Carman said the crew faced harsh interrogation by their Iranian..
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SF Gate
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British sailors and marines held for nearly two weeks in Iran were blindfolded, bound and threatened with prison if they did not say they had strayed into Iranian waters, a Royal Navy lieutenant who was among the capitives said Friday.
Lt. Felix Carman..
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CNN
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The 15 British military personnel captured by Iranian forces in the Persian Gulf were subjected to psychological pressure and kept in isolation during their detention, the group's officers said on Friday.
Lt. Felix Carman of the British Royal Navy, rea..
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CNN
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Nine coalition troops were killed in Iraq over the last two days, four of them in the deadliest attack on British troops since November, the U.S. and British militaries said Thursday.
The four British troops and a civilian translator were ambushed earl..
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CNN
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair has welcomed the return home of 15 British service members held captive in Iran for nearly two weeks, saying their release was the right moment to reflect on the relationship between the UK and Iran.
Blair was speaking..
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ABC News
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defused a growing confrontation with Britain, announcing the surprise release of 15 captive British sailors Wednesday and then gleefully accepting the crew's thanks and handshakes in what he called an Easter gift.
The 15 B..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Iran and Britain were both claiming last night that the release of the 15 British military personnel vindicated their own strategies in the 13-day standoff that threatened to become a global crisis.
Tony Blair welcomed the surprise Iranian promise to r..
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News.com.au
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THE 15 British sailors who have been held by Iran for nearly two weeks have met British Ambassador Geoffrey Adams.
The eight Royal Navy sailors and seven marines, whom Iran said it would be releasing, met Mr Adams "late this evening (Thursday AEST)," s..
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BBC News
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf are free to leave.
He repeated Iran's view that the British sailors and marines "invaded" Iranian waters, but said they were being released as a "gift" to Britai..
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Yahoo News
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Iran would free the 15 detained British sailors and marines Wednesday as an Easter holiday "gift" to the British people.
Iranian state television said the 14 men and one woman, who were seized while on patrol in the n..
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SF Gate
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Behind the seesaw crisis of Iran's detention of 15 British sailors and marines lies an internal Iranian struggle pitting hard-liners, aligned with the president, against more pragmatic officials concerned about the country's growing isolation.
The capt..
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