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April 26, 2010, 10:57 AM (GMT+02:00)
The British embassy in the Yemeni capital of Sanaa shut down Monday, April 26, after an al Qaeda suicide attack on the ambassador's convoy and a clash with gunmen outside the embassy. According to first reports, one person was killed, but Ambassador Tim Torlot is safe. 
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March 23, 2010, 1:13 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's sources disclose that President Nicolas Sarkozy will decide in the coming hours whether to follow in 
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January 30, 2010, 5:44 PM (GMT+02:00)
debkafile's Iranian sources report that the Basijj militia chiefs have a plan to seize the British embassy in 
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December 22, 2009, 2:05 AM (GMT+02:00)
The British court practice of issuing war crimes warrants against Israeli official visitors has catapulted UK-Israel relations to the brink of a crisis. Tuesday, Dec. 15, prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu said he takes a grave view of the warrant for the arrest of opposition leader Tzipi Livni issued by pro-Palestinian ...
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October 2, 2009, 11:07 AM (GMT+02:00)
Before the court ruling, defense minister Ehud Barak refused advice from the foreign ministry in Jerusalem to leave the UK after a Palestinian group sought an international warrant for his arrest for alleged war crimes in Gaza. He insisted on keeping to his schedule of conferences with British prime minister ...
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August 31, 2009, 12:34 PM (GMT+02:00)
In supportive remarks after his talks with Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu in London, the British premier Gordon Brown commended Israel for dismantling West Bank roadblocks, recommended reciprocal moves by Arab states to support the peace process and said Iran's actions do not make its claims of peaceful atomic development ...
Egypt opens Rafah to far-left UK MP Galloway to Gaza, but routes his aid convoy through Nitzana<br/>
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March 12, 2009, 11:30 AM (GMT+02:00)
The aid-for-Gaza convoy from London led by far-left British lawmaker George Galloway started out on the wrong foot in mid-February. Sunday, March 8, it was stranded at the northern Sinai town of El-Arish by 1,000 Egyptian police who refused to grant them entry to Gaza. Clashes left 24 members of ...
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December 25, 2008, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)
Iranian prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi said the three Iranians had been trained by the Mossad in four countries in "assassinations, explosives, professional motorbike riding and working with special cameras, computers and satellites.
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July 23, 2008, 11:02 AM (GMT+02:00)
In the first address to the Knesset by a British prime minister, Gordon Brown said Monday, July 21: We have given Iran a clear choice: Accept our negotiations on its nuclear program or face growing isolation and collective response not of one nation but many nations."
The UK, EU and ...
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July 21, 2008, 1:01 PM (GMT+02:00)
The British prime minister Gordon Brown, who arrived in Israel Saturday night, July 19, made the demand after one of the five hostages kidnapped was claimed by an insurgent group to have committed suicide.
The claim was made on a video passed to the Sunday Times. The man identified only as ...
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June 1, 2008, 10:06 PM (GMT+02:00)
The UCU meeting in Manchester, northern England, passed a motion to boycott Israeli academic institutions - without admitting it as such.
Members were urged to "reflect on whether it is appropriate to maintain their links with Israeli institutions" in the light of "the humanitarian catastrophe imposed on Gaza by Israel."
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May 6, 2008, 11:23 PM (GMT+02:00)
The head of the UK's MI6, Sir John Scarlett will visit Israel later this month for an update by Mossad chief Meir Dagan on Iran's nuclear program and other subjects of common interest. The London Times reports that it is understood Israel has made a breakthrough "on intelligence gathering within ...
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April 13, 2008, 2:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
In a landmark judgment, the Britain's High Court said British soldiers sent abroad would "have the same human rights as any other British citizens and must be properly equipped when sent into battle". It came in a test case relating to the death of a Scottish soldier who died of ...
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December 14, 2007, 9:18 PM (GMT+02:00)
After four days of heavy fighting, Afghan National army and international forces covered by US and British marines entered the outskirts of the strategic town of Musa Qala in northern Helmand, south of Kabul, Monday, Dec. 10. Wednesday, the Afghan government flag was unfurled at the town center.
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December 5, 2007, 9:21 PM (GMT+02:00)
The victim says he has been held 173 days and "no one seems to care." The five men are being held by a Shiite militia called Islamic Shiite Resistance after being snatched in May from the Iraqi finance ministry building.
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November 9, 2007, 6:43 PM (GMT+02:00)
Military sources report that the British Airborne Warning and Control System plane's joint exercise is in line with Israel's increasing cooperation with NATO in line with its Middle East security program. It was the first visit to Israel by an RAF aircraft on a military mission.
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October 3, 2007, 8:16 PM (GMT+02:00)
After talks with Brown Tues. Oct. 2, Iraqi PM al Maliki said Iraqi government forces would assume complete control of security in Basra province within two months.
debkafile reports that Brown's announcement was motivated more by domestic British politics than progress in pacifying the province, where five years of ...
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July 20, 2007, 10:24 AM (GMT+02:00)
In a further strain on relations, Russia also restricted visas for British officials in response to "unfriendly gestures by the UK." The Kremlin has thus raised the stakes past tit for tat for London's expulsion of four Russian officials in reprisal for Moscow's refusal to extradite Andrei Lugovoi, the leading ...
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July 19, 2007, 12:57 PM (GMT+02:00)
Russian Dep. Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko said Tuesday a targeted response would be coming soon for London's expulsion of 4 Russian FSB-linked intelligence officers from the embassy. The UK is retaliating for Moscow's refusal to extradite Andrew Lugovoi, the leading suspect in the murder of ex-KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko.
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July 15, 2007, 1:38 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mohammed Haneef, who worked at a Queensland state hospital, was the second person charged in the plot after Bilal Abdullah in Britain. The Australian charge only specified "reckless" support for a terrorist organization while Abdullah was accused of conspiring to detonate explosions in Britain. The only woman of the seven ...
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