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<title>Judge: Saudi threats apparently 'rolled over' British government</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The British government appeared to have "rolled over" in response to pressure from Saudi Arabia to drop an investigation into alleged bribery in an arms deal with BAE Systems PLC, a High Court judge said Thursday.]]></description>
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<title>UK | 'Friendly fire' kills UK soldiers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan by so-called friendly fire from American fighter planes, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has said.]]></description>
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<title>Blair will become a Catholic</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Tony Blair is "certain" to become a Roman Catholic shortly after he steps down from office next week, friends of the Prime Minister have told The Independent. They believe it will happen "sooner rather than later".]]></description>
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<title>G8 summit: Climate compromise masks mounting conflicts</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The 3,500 reporters and photographers who travelled to the G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany, have accomplished their assigned mission. The world has been inundated with reports of progress and idyllic photos: Bush, Merkel and Putin sitting relaxed and chatting in beach chairs; Sarkozy and Blair talking over a glass of beer; a harmonious walk on the beach of the picturesque resort by all of the world leaders.]]></description>
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<title>Former US President Jimmy Carter blasts Bush and Blair over Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In a pair of back-to-back interviews, former US President Jimmy Carter delivered a blistering critique of George W. Bush


declaring his administration the 


worst administration in history





and Tony Blair, describing the British prime minister


s support for US foreign policy 


abominable.


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<title>Iran's release of sailors: A humiliating episode for Britain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Iran


s release of the 15 British naval personnel captured in the Gulf is the d

nouement of a humiliating episode for the Blair government and for British imperialism. Since they were captured by Iranian naval forces in the Shatt al Arab waterway, the sailors and marines have come to epitomise the gap between Britain


s pretensions as a world power and its actual capabilities.

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<title>Britain heightens confrontation with Iran over detained sailors</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Blair government, backed by the Bush administration, yesterday stepped up diplomatic pressure for the release of 15 British sailors and marines detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRG) last Friday. In an already tense situation in the Persian Gulf, US aircraft carrier battle groups have held a major military exercise over the past two days, while British ministers in London called for Iran to be further diplomatically isolated.]]></description>
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<title>BBC Provides More Detail on a Report It Didn’t Show</title>
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<description><![CDATA[UK freedom of the press much different than ours: Under British law, reporting restrictions are routinely imposed when charges are brought in order to avoid affecting the outcome of subsequent trials. Last month, when counterterrorism police raided homes in Birmingham, in central England, the police urged the news media to restrict their reporting of the event. Most legal hearings, however, may be freely reported once the proceedings have started.]]></description>
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<title>Blair to announce Iraq troop pullout - Conflict in Iraq</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Blair will also tell the House of Commons during his regular weekly appearance before it that a total of about 3,000 British soldiers will have left southern Iraq by the end of 2007, if the security there is sufficient, the British Broadcasting Corp. said, quoting government officials who weren't further identified.]]></description>
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<title>OECD to investigate Tony Blair's dropped probe on BAE</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Now for the fallout from the British Government decision to drop the corruption probe into a massive defence deal involving BAE Systems, the world's fourth largest defence contractor, and Saudi Arabia. The OECD will investigate and activist groups are suing. ]]></description>
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<title>An Inquiring Mind Wants to Know</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some fine observations on Prime Minister Blair and President Bush]]></description>
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<title>August terror plot is a 'fiction' underscoring police failures</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/August_terror_plot_is_a_fiction_underscoring_police_failures</link>
<description><![CDATA["The idea that these people could sit in the plane toilet and simply mix together these normal household fluids to create a high explosive capable of blowing up the entire aircraft is untenable," said Lt. Col. Wylde, who was trained as an ammunition technical officer responsible for terrorist bomb disposal at the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Sandhurst.]]></description>
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<title>James Wolcott: And Then There Was One</title>
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<description><![CDATA[What's unraveling within the Labour Party could prove fateful for the Bush administration as well. It carries far more import than any of the longwinded speeches Bush has been making this week and eating up the clock on cable news. For without Blair planted beside him on the summit stage, translating and amplifying his vision into mellifluous oratory to meet the world-historical moment (his hair crackling with an urgent air of crisis), Bush will look denuded, orphaned, like an Everly Brother out there alone.]]></description>
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<title>7 members of Blair's government resign</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Six junior members of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government resigned Wednesday to protest his refusal to set a date to leave office amid a growing Labour Party revolt. The rebellion flared despite strong hints by senior ministers that Blair planned to step down within a year, and a news report claiming the departure date would be July 26.]]></description>
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<title>Carter Says Blair Subservient to Bush</title>
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<description><![CDATA["I have been surprised and extremely disappointed by Tony Blair's behavior," former President Jimmy Carter said in an interview with The Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

"I think that more than any other person in the world, the prime minister could have had a moderating influence on Washington - and he has not," added Carter, who opposed the war in Iraq. "I really thought that Tony Blair ... would be a constraint on President Bush's policy toward Iraq."]]></description>
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