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CNN
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Four Greenpeace activists climbed on top of a British Airways plane at London's Heathrow Airport on Monday to protest plans to build a third runway, the environmental group said. The protesters unveiled a banner atop the plane which reads, "Climate emerge..
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BBC News
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Russian authorities have halted a major London exhibition of French and Russian art over claims Britain has failed to guarantee the paintings' return.
Russia's culture agency said the show could not go ahead unless the British government took further s..
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CNN
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Canoe Man" John Darwin, who was presumed dead until he walked into a London police station earlier this month, appeared in court in northern England Monday. The 57-year-old appeared at Hartlepool Magistrates' Court accused of making an untrue statement to..
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Lexington Herald-Leader
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As a woman bitten by a rattlesnake during a church service in London struggled to breathe, hospital employees made derogatory comments about her religious beliefs rather than providing proper care, contributing to her death, a lawsuit charges.
The case..
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SF Gate
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Most of London's sprawling transport network shut down Tuesday after maintenance workers walked off the job, arousing commuter anger and drawing warnings the strike will inconvenience millions of Britons.
Around 2,300 members of the National Union of R..
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CNN
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New British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, seeking to quash speculation that London may distance itself from Washington over Iraq, insisted on Sunday the United States was still Britain's number one ally. "It is the single most important bilateral rela..
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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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BBC News
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Anti-terrorism police have launched a huge manhunt for the people who planted two car bombs in central London.
Two Mercedes - left on Friday outside a club in Haymarket and a nearby street - contained petrol, gas cylinders and nails but the devices did..
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The Register
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Police and securocrats know that there aren't enough real terrorists in the world, which is why they have to keep manufacturing them. This is because citizens tire of being watched by cameras, frisked and x-rayed, having their belongings searched, giving..
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CNN
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The discovery of an unexploded bomb in a parked London car poses no specific threat to the United States, the FBI said Friday, although it's urging police and the public to remain vigilant.
A Department of Homeland Security official said authorities ar..
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BBC News
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Part of a five-storey building has collapsed just 100 yards from New Scotland Yard in central London.
The emergency services were called to Dean Farrar Street in Westminster at 1604 BST on Tuesday.
A London Fire Service spokesman said the top two fl..
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Yahoo News
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ABUJA (AFP) - s, while the rest of the debt will be cleared by March, President Olusegun Obasanjo said...
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BBC News
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Six people were injured and up to 150 houses were damaged when a tornado swept through several London streets leaving a trail of destruction...
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Bloomberg
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Deran Garabedian is so fed up with the London Underground's erratic service that he'd rather walk 30 minutes to work. He's incensed that fares are going up as much as a third next year...
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CNN
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The contest to be London's mayor, running a city of around 13 million people, has come at a crucial moment in British politics. It could help determine the outcome of the next general election. But the contest is essentially one between two highly individ..
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CNN
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British student Meredith Kercher, whose murder in Italy last month sparked a high-profile investigation and drew international headlines, was being laid to rest Friday in a private family ceremony in her hometown south of London. Kercher, 20, was found ha..
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MSNBC
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A big fire sent out a pall of black smoke over east London on Monday, but there were no reports of casualties and police said there was nothing to suggest it was anything more than a fire.
Eight fire engines and 40 firefighters rushed to the scene of t..
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CNN
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A thick plume of black smoke covered the sky over London Monday as blaze broke out in what was believed to be a bus garage in the east of the city. Fire crews were investigating the cause, but it was not thought to be terror-related. The London Ambulance..
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CNN
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British Foreign Secretary David Miliband pulled out of a meeting with his Saudi Arabian counterpart in London Monday, but the Foreign Office insisted it was for personal reasons and not a snub.
Miliband has just adopted a baby son and is taking time of..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Last week, a trade union badly damaged the legitimacy of collective action - and achieved nothing. By going on strike after having won almost all its demands, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers closed down the London Underground fo..
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