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Brown warns Afghanistan over loss of international support - Summary
London- Britain Friday warned Afghan President Hamid Karzai that he risked the withdrawal of international support if his government fails to improve security and root out corruption. I am not prepared to put the lives of British men and women in ha...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

British ministers concede fading hopes on firm climate change deal
London - The British government echoed US warnings Friday that a binding deal on climate change is now unlikely to be agreed upon at a United Nations (UN) climate change summit in Copenhagen next month. The barriers to agreement on climate finance r...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

Brown warns Afghanistan over international support
London - Afghan President Hamid Karzai risks the withdrawal of international support if his government should fail to improve security and root out corruption, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Friday. I am not prepared to put the lives of British ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-06 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

British soldier dies in Afghanistan as war fatigue grows
London - Britain Thursday reported the death of another soldier in southern Afghanistan, taking to 230 the total number of military fatalities since the conflict began eight years ago. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said a soldier had died in a roadsi...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

PROFILE: David Miliband - Labour's rising star - tipped for EU job
London - Relative youth, a formidable brain, a winning smile and a recently-discovered Russian relative are among the characteristics that distinguish David Miliband from most other politicians. Nick-named brains, the 44-year-old wonderboy of New L...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

British Conservatives dismiss French attack on Europe policy
London - Britain's opposition Conservatives were Thursday the subject of a stinging attack from a leading French minister who said the policies pursued by the Tories threatened to castrate Britain's influence in Europe. French Europe minister Pierr...

[Posted on : 2009-11-05 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

British Conservatives in fresh referendum pledge - Summary
London - Britain's opposition Conservatives pledged Wednesday to make any future transfer of power to the European Union (EU) subject to popular approval in a referendum. Party leader David Cameron, speaking a day after he lost his struggle to stop...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

EXTRA:Cameron concedes Lisbon Treaty defeat but vows to fight on
London - British Conservative leader David Cameron Wednesday conceded defeat in his struggle to stop the Lisbon Treaty from coming into force but promised that a future government led by him would not permit any transfer of power to Brussels without ...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

British mercenary Simon Mann returns after Equatorial Guinea pardon
London - British mercenary Simon Mann arrived back home Wednesday after being pardoned by the President of Equatorial Guinea following his 2008 conviction in connection with an attempted coup in the oil-rich west African state. Mann, 57, was sentence...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

Cameron says Conservatives are not 'in turmoil' over Europe
London - Britain's opposition Conservative Party insisted Wednesday that it was not in turmoil over its relations with the European Union (EU) following the final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. Tory leader David Cameron was expected later Wedne...

[Posted on : 2009-11-04 ] Category : [ UK (World) ]

 

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