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CNN
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Severe weather caused travel chaos across Britain on Monday as strong winds and rain led to dozens of cancellations and delays at airports, ports and railway stations. The weather led to 41 flight cancellations at London's Heathrow Airport and 13 cancella..
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BBC News
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The European Union is set to confirm it has abandoned what became one of its most unpopular policies among many people in Britain.
It is proposing to allow the UK to continue using pounds, miles and pints as units of measurement indefinitely.
The Eu..
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CNN
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Britain has condemned Russia's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi to face murder charges for the poisoning death of an ex-KGB agent in London as "extremely disappointing." Prime Minister Gordon Brown's spokesman said Tuesday an offer of a trial in Russia..
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FOX News
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Treasury chief Gordon Brown on Friday launched his campaign to become Britain's next prime minister and win back voters disenchanted after a decade of Labour Party rule.
Brown said his government would honor Britain's commitments in Iraq but acknowledg..
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BBC News
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An Irish teenager has won a High Court battle in Dublin to be allowed to visit Britain for an abortion.
The 17-year old was told by doctors her four-month foetus would not live more than a few days beyond its birth.
She is in the care of the Irish R..
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Guardian Unlimited
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An alleged accomplice of one of Britain's most powerful convicted terrorists appeared in court today as the "last remaining member" of the team to face trial.
Qaisar Shaffi was one of seven people assisting Dhiren Barot, who was jailed for at least 40..
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CNN
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Britain's defense secretary said Wednesday he regretted the decision to allow sailors to sell their stories about their detention in Iran to media organizations.
Des Browne said in a television interview that the original decision had been made by Roya..
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USA Today
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Britain said Sunday it intends to try to hand power immediately to a new Catholic-Protestant administration for Northern Ireland — but is open to the Protestant side's demand for an extension to May.
Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain said Saturda..
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Times Online
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A man who was being hunted for the murder of a policewoman is understood to have escaped from Britain by disguising himself as a veiled Muslim woman...
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Guardian Unlimited
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Nehad has the hunched look of a man who has lived with fear for years. It was to escape fear that he fled Iraq for Europe in 2003, hoping to start a new life beyond the reach of the torture and prisons of Saddam Hussein's regime in northern Iraq. But aft..
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BBC News
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Serious questions have been raised over Britain's border security after a BBC journalist entered the UK twice on fake and stolen passports...
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Guardian Unlimited
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In a move likely to inflame tensions ahead of next week's Nato summit in Latvia, Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, yesterday declassified documents claiming that Britain and the US had approved of the Soviet occupation of the Baltic states..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Iran opened a sabre-rattling show of military might today by firing a long-range weapon said to be capable of carrying nuclear warheads and striking Israel and US forces in the Middle East...
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BBC News
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Gordon Brown has announced a series of measures to deepen and strengthen Britain's ties with France saying he wanted an "Entente Formidable".
The two countries will hold regular summits and step up co-operation on immigration, defence and the economy...
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CNN
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Britain's Work and Pensions Secretary Peter Hain announced Thursday he would resign amid a campaign finance investigation. The Cabinet minister announced his resignation after Britain's Electoral Commission, which is investigating Hain for failing to decl..
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CNN
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Queen Elizabeth II was set to become Britain's oldest reigning monarch on Thursday, surpassing the record set by her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria. By early Friday, the queen will be 81 years and 244 days old. Victoria died in 1901, having lived..
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SF Gate
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Ian Smith, the former prime minister of Britain's rebellious colony of Rhodesia, who once promised that white rule in Africa would endure for 1,000 years, died Tuesday in South Africa. He was 88.
The cause was a stroke suffered at a nursing home near C..
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FOX News
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Britain has asked the United States to release five British residents from the military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Foreign Office said Tuesday.
Foreign Secretary David Miliband has written to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice asking that the..
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www.express.co.uk
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BRITAIN is facing a mass exodus of people looking to escape the crime and grime of modern living.
The country’s biggest foreign visa consultancy firm has revealed that applications have soared in the last seven months by 80 per cent to almost 4,000 a..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Gordon Brown today flies to Washington for his first summit with President George Bush, after issuing a ringing endorsement of Britain's 'special relationship' with the US.
As he prepares the Labour party for a possible election next spring, the Prime..
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