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74 articles tagged "Britain"
DEBKAfile
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July 11, 2007, 4:15 PM (GMT+02:00)
An FBI spokeswoman said Asha, a Jordanian-Palestinian physician, contacted the Philadelphia-based Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates in the last year but apparently did not take the test.
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July 4, 2007, 8:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Shortly after the former British prime minister stepped into his new job, he assured Russia and the Europeans that he did not mean to adhere to the US-Israeli boycott of Hamas. One of his first tasks would be to establish ties with Hamas representatives in Gaza and Damascus.
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July 2, 2007, 8:45 AM (GMT+02:00)
Two parked Mercedes cars containing explosive devices packed with petrol, gas and nails were disabled in the heart of London Friday. The suspected al Qaeda bomb plot has placed London on high alert.
The second car, illegally parked near Trafalgar Sq., was towed to the Park Lane pound near Hyde Park ... 
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June 30, 2007, 2:30 PM (GMT+02:00)
Scotland Yard, with all its protestations of leveling frankly with the London public on the two foiled car bomb attacks on central London Friday, June 29, has referred to 60 liters of gasoline, gas canisters and nails found in the two Mercedes, which would have cost many lives had they ...
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June 19, 2007, 11:35 AM (GMT+02:00)
In an question-answer session at the Conservative Friends of Israel, Cameron said: "If what you mean by Zionist, someone who believes that the Jews have a right to a homeland in Israel and a right to their country then yes, I am a Zionist and I'm proud of the fact ...
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June 1, 2007, 11:10 PM (GMT+02:00)
At a dramatic news conference in Moscow Thursday, Andrei Lugovoi, whose extradition to the UK Russia has refused, accused the British MI6 of trying to recruit him to gather compromising material against Russian president Vladimir Putin and his family.
Lugovoi is charged in Britain with murdering Alexander Litvinenko in London last ...
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June 1, 2007, 11:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
Tzipi Livni called Margaret Beckett Friday, June 1, to report that Israel takes a grave view of the British University and College Union's vote to circulate to its branch offices a Palestinian call for a "comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli institutions," including a European funding freeze.
The ... 
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May 30, 2007, 12:50 PM (GMT+02:00)
An invited guest to the Hay Literary Festival in Wales, Ghazi Hamad, Hamas spokesman, assured his audience that BBC reporter Alan Johnston, kidnapped by Hamas' allies two months ago, is alive and well: "No one has tried to harm him or hurt him," he said and he will be released ...
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May 27, 2007, 5:59 PM (GMT+02:00)
Sunday, May 27, was a red letter day for Hamas. One of the hundreds of Qassam missiles fired from Gaza in the last 12 days hit a car in Sderot's center driven by 35-year old Oshri Oz from Hod Hasharon, whose company provides computer services in the battered town. He ...
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May 24, 2007, 6:51 PM (GMT+02:00)
This confronts the world with one of its most urgent threats, he said. The Conservative leader declined to rule out military action against Tehran's nuclear facilities, but stressed the drawbacks. "Iran having a nuclear weapon would be calamity, but military action could be calamitous," he said and predicted, "The next ...
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May 11, 2007, 1:22 PM (GMT+02:00)
It was accompanied by what appeared to be a picture of Johnston's BBC identification card. The group, now using one al Qaeda-Palestine's names, is also holding the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit. The statement says: "We demand from Britain that it release our prisoners and particularly the Palestinian Sheikh Abu Qatada, ...
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May 6, 2007, 9:04 AM (GMT+02:00)
Unofficial returns award SNP 47 parliamentary seats, 46 to the ruling Labor, which has suffered a beating in local council votes across the United Kingdom. In England, the opposition Conservatives made big gains at Labor's expense.
Counting was thrown into disarray over 100,000 spoilt votes and other hitches in Scotland, where ...
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April 20, 2007, 2:00 PM (GMT+02:00)
Friday, April 13, the British National Union of Journalists voted to boycott Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year's war in Lebanon. The vote, carried 66 to 54, read: "This ADM calls for a boycott of Israeli goods similar to those boycotts in the struggles against apartheid ...
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April 18, 2007, 2:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
UK Commander Christopher Rankin served as head of the Electronic Attack Squadron aboard the Eisenhower aircraft carrier. A spokesman for the US Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Manama, Bahrain, made the announcement Monday. He said Rankin was sacked over a "loss of confidence in his ability to command." The spokesman ...
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