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Britain can crush racism in sport, Cameron says
Reuters - 20 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain needs to act swiftly to crush any return of racism in football, after several high-profile cases, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday. Cameron said Britain should be proud of the achievements of the campaign to rid the sport of racism over the past two decades, adding that other countries had failed to take similar action. "But we have some problems still today," Cameron said at the opening of an anti-discrimination summit with former players and football officials. "We need to act quickly to make sure those problems do not creep back in. ... More »Britain can crush racism in sport, Cameron says
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London practises for underground terror attack
Reuters - 23 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Thousands of emergency workers and government staff began a two-day exercise on Wednesday to practise dealing with a major terrorism incident during the 2012 London Olympics. Volunteers posing as dazed travellers emerged from a London underground station, some coughing, some covered in fake blood and some on stretchers as police and emergency workers swarmed outside. ... More »London practises for underground terror attack
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Ireland raises asset sales target to 3 billion euros
Reuters - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government raised its target for the sale of state assets to 3 billion euros (2.5 billion pounds) on Wednesday, unveiling a final list of utilities set to go on the block headed by the energy business of its Bord Gais utility. The government had previously said it was looking to raise 2 billion euros but had indicated it may exceed that after winning approval from its EU/IMF creditors to use some of the proceeds to invest in the economy as well as pay down debt. ... More »Ireland raises asset sales target to 3 billion euros
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NHS could save £2 billion on empty property - report
Reuters - 13 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - State-funded National Health Service (NHS) could save up to 2 billion pounds by taking better control of its underused and empty properties, which represent 264 soccer pitches worth of space, a report said. The NHS could raise 1 billion pounds by selling half of this 1.9 million square metres of space and could save a further 1 billion pounds through more efficient procurement of goods and services, property consultancy EC Harris said on Thursday. ... More »NHS could save £2 billion on empty property - report
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Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
Reuters - 21 hours ago
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai appealed for calm on Wednesday after officials said six people were shot dead and dozens wounded in protests over the burning of copies of the Koran, Islam's holy book, at NATO's main base in the country. The U.S. embassy said its staff were in "lockdown" and travel had been suspended as thousands of people expressed fury over the burning, in protests that flared for a second day in several cities. It was a public relations disaster for U.S. ... More »Karzai urges calm as six die in Afghan Koran protests
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Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail
Reuters - 17 hours ago
VIENNA/TEHRAN (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog ended its latest mission to Iran after talks on Tehran's suspected secret atomic weapons research failed, a setback likely to increase the risk of confrontation with the West. The United States criticized Iran on Wednesday over the failure of the International Atomic Energy Agency's latest mission, saying it again showed Tehran's refusal to abide by its international obligations over its nuclear programme. ... More »Iran defiant as U.N. nuclear talks fail
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Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops at protests
Reuters - 40 minutes ago
KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan soldier joined protests on Thursday against the burning of copies of the Koran at a NATO base and shot dead two foreign troops, Western military sources said, as the Taliban urged security forces to turn their guns on foreigners. Protests against the burning of copies of Islam's most holy book drew thousands of angry Afghans to the streets, chanting "Death to America!" for the third consecutive day in violence that has killed 11 people and wounded many more. ... More »Afghan soldier kills two NATO troops at protests
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Israel: Iran will have U.S.-range missile in 2-3 years
Reuters - 22 hours ago
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel believes that within 2-3 years Iran will have intercontinental missiles able to hit the United States, an Israeli minister said in remarks aimed at raising awareness of the threat it believes a nuclear Iran would pose to the world. Analysts now estimate the longest range of an Iranian missile to be about 2,400 km (1,500 miles), capable of reaching Tehran's arch-enemy Israel as well as Europe. ... More »Israel: Iran will have U.S.-range missile in 2-3 years
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Irish PM says legal advice on referendum likely in 2/3 weeks
Reuters - Tue, Feb 21, 2012
DUBLIN (Reuters) - Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Tuesday that the state's lawyer is likely to advise within "two to three weeks" on whether the country needs to hold a referendum on a new EU treaty that includes tougher fiscal rules. Irish attitudes towards Europe have cooled during the country's financial crisis and there is no guarantee such a referendum would pass, putting a question mark over Dublin's commitment to the single currency and creating a headache for Brussels. "The government awaits the attorney general's advice.... ... More »Irish PM says legal advice on referendum likely in 2/3 weeks
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Cherie Blair sues over phone hacking
Reuters - 16 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - The wife of former Prime Minister Tony Blair has begun legal action over the alleged interception of her private phone messages, her lawyer said Wednesday, making her the latest public figure to be drawn into a hacking scandal that has shaken the country's media. Barrister Cherie Blair, 57, issued a statement through a London law firm that has pursued phone-hacking cases against Rupert Murdoch's British newspapers on behalf of several high profile clients. ... More »Cherie Blair sues over phone hacking
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Irish government to unveil asset sale list
Reuters - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
DUBLIN (Reuters) - The Irish government will provide a final list of assets on Wednesday that are to be hived off to pay down debt. State assets worth between 2-3 billion euros will go on the block, including the retail division of gas supply company Bord Gais, according to a report in the Irish Independent. The Minister for Public Expenditure Brendan Howlin will give details of the state assets to be sold, and how much is expected to be raised from the sales, at 1030 GMT on Wednesday. ... More »Irish government to unveil asset sale list
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Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent
Reuters - 19 hours ago
LONDON (Reuters) - Marie Colvin's final dispatch, published just three days before she and a French photographer were killed by shell and rocket fire, came from a bleak cellar packed with women and children cowering in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. Relating the stories of those sheltering in what she called 'the widows' basement', Colvin explained how she had made her way to the pulverised city by crossing into Syria from Lebanon via a secret smugglers' route. ... More »Marie Colvin, intrepid and fearless war correspondent
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Tunisia, Egypt Islamists signal bigger religion role
Reuters - 5 hours ago
PARIS (Reuters)- After months of reassuring secularist critics, Islamist politicians in Tunisia and Egypt have begun to lay down markers about how Muslim their states should be - and first signs show they want more religion than previously admitted. Islamist parties swept the first free elections in both countries in recent months after campaigns that stressed their readiness to work with the secularists they struggled with in the Arab Spring revolts against decades-long dictatorships. ... More »Tunisia, Egypt Islamists signal bigger religion role
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Spain barter economy wins followers in grip of crisis
Reuters - Mon, Feb 20, 2012
MADRID (Reuters) - It's 10.30 on a chilly winter's morning in central Madrid and retailer Emanuela Scena is opening up for business. Her shop is one of several offering second-hand goods that have sprung up in Spain's capital during the economic crisis and is packed to the rafters with clothes, books, CDs and electrical equipment. But unlike the others, it doesn't take cash. It's part of a barter economy in goods and services that is gaining ground as the country tips into recession and already sky-high unemployment rates inch up. ... More »Spain barter economy wins followers in grip of crisis
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Assad forces bomb Syria's Homs
Reuters - 15 hours ago
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighbourhoods of the city of Homs on Wednesday, reducing buildings to rubble and killing more than 80 people, including two Western journalists. The barrages marked an intensification of a nearly three-week offensive to crush resistance in Homs, one of the focal points of a nationwide uprising against Assad's 11-year rule, and prompted further international condemnation. ... More »Assad forces bomb Syria's Homs
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Iraq attacks kill 60, raise sectarian fears
Reuters - 1 hour 35 minutes ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Simultaneous early morning attacks on mostly Shi'ite targets across Iraq killed at least 60 people and wounded dozens on Thursday in one of the bloodiest days of violence since U.S. troops pulled out in mid-December. The attacks that appeared to pitch al Qaeda-linked Sunni Muslim insurgents against Shi'ites raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian carnage that tore Iraq apart and cost thousands of lives in 2006 and 2007. ... More »Iraq attacks kill 60, raise sectarian fears
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Fox returns to demand tax cuts
Politics.co.uk - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
Momentum towards tax cuts is continuing to accelerate, as Liam Fox and the CBI add their weight to calls to help businesses foster Britain's economic recovery. More »Fox returns to demand tax cuts
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Force may be only solution in Syria - opposition SNC
Reuters - Wed, Feb 22, 2012
PARIS (Reuters) - The opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) said on Wednesday it was coming to the view that military intervention was the only solution to the nearly year-old crisis that has killed thousands in Syria. "We are really close to seeing this military intervention as the only solution. There are two evils, military intervention or protracted civil war," Basma Kodmani, a senior SNC official, told a press conference in Paris. Kodmani said the SNC was also proposing that Russia, which has vetoed action against the Syrian government in the U.N. ... More »Force may be only solution in Syria - opposition SNC
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Alcohol seen killing 200,000 Britons in next 20 years
Reuters - Mon, Feb 20, 2012
LONDON (Reuters) - Up to 210,000 people in England and Wales will be killed prematurely by alcohol over the next 20 years, with a third of those preventable deaths due to liver disease alone, health experts warned Monday. Other alcohol-related deaths will be due to accidents, violence and suicide, or from chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, strokes, heart disease and cancer, the experts warned in a projection study in the Lancet medical journal. ... More »Alcohol seen killing 200,000 Britons in next 20 years
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Syrian tanks attack in Homs, world outrage grows
Reuters - 45 minutes ago
AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian tanks pushed into a rebel stronghold in the battered city of Homs Thursday and U.N. investigators accused President Bashar al-Assad's government of crimes against humanity. Rockets, shells and mortar rounds rained on the Baba Amro district, where armed insurgents are holed up with terrified civilians, for the 20th day in a row, activists said. The Sunni Muslim quarters of Inshaat and Khalidiya also came under fire. Homs-based activist Abu Imad said tanks had entered the Jobar area in the south of Baba Amro. "Explosions are shaking the whole of Homs. ... More »Syrian tanks attack in Homs, world outrage grows