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  Britain to host Indian diaspora convention

  India | October 14, 2014 16:57 IST

  New Delhi: British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond with External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will inaugurate Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention Oct 17 in London, the first ever such event to be held in Britain.A British High

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  Britain holds national exercise to test Ebola preparedness

  World | October 12, 2014 6:36 IST

  London: British authorities on Saturday held a national exercise to test preparedness for an Ebola outbreak in the country, following recent enhanced screening among arrivals from countries affected by the disease.Senior ministers, government departments and

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  Britain to conduct Ebola screening among travelers

  World | October 10, 2014 6:20 IST

  London: Britain will conduct enhanced screening for Ebola among people traveling from countries affected by the disease, Downing Street announced on Thursday.Enhanced screening will "involve assessing passengers' recent travel history, who they have been in

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  Britain, Ireland inks visa deal to benefit Chinese, Indian travellers

  World | October 07, 2014 7:04 IST

  London/Dublin: Britain and Ireland on Monday inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on visa cooperation to allow Chinese and Indian visitors to travel to the two island nations on a single visa.The landmark visa deal

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  Britain probes death threat to Maldives ex-president

  World | October 06, 2014 20:56 IST

  Colombo: British police have started investigating a death threat sent to Maldives' former president Mohamed Nasheed, a media report said.Nasheed had lodged a complaint with British Metropolitan Police Services - Counter-Terrorism Command regarding a death

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  Britain deploys more war planes to strike IS in Iraq

  World | October 04, 2014 6:13 IST

  London: Two more British Royal Air Force (RAF) war planes will join the military operation to tackle the Islamic State (IS) threat in Iraq, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Friday.The new deployment of

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  Britain conducts first airstrike against IS targets

  World | October 01, 2014 6:30 IST

  London: Britain's Royal Air Force (RAF) military jets have conducted their first strikes on an Islamic State (IS) heavy weapon position in Iraq, the British ministry of defence said on Tuesday.In the course of an

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  Britain joins fight against Islamic State group

  World | September 27, 2014 7:32 IST

  LONDON: Britain, Belgium and Denmark on Friday joined the U.S.-led coalition of nations that are launching airstrikes on the Islamic State group in Iraq, committing warplanes to the struggle against the extremists.The European lawmakers flatly

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  Scottish referendum: Beckham backs 'No' vote

  World | September 15, 2014 18:02 IST

  London: Former captain of the English football team David Beckham expressed his support Monday for the "No" vote on the independence of Scotland and asked Scots not to leave a link with Britain that is

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  Britain verifying video of aid worker's beheading

  World | September 14, 2014 6:54 IST

  London: The UK Foreign Office said late Saturday it was "working urgently to verify" a video purporting to show beheading of a British hostage by the Sunni militant group Islamic State (IS) in Syria, media

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  Prison suicide rate rises in Britain

  World | September 12, 2014 7:55 IST

  London: The number of prisoners who took their own lives in England and Wales from 2013-14 increased by 64 percent, according to an independent investigation released on Thursday.The prisons complaint watchdog Prisons and Probation Ombudsman

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  Britain to send arms worth USD 2.6 mn to Iraq

  World | September 10, 2014 8:34 IST

  London: The British government will send a consignment of heavy machine guns and ammunition worth 1.6 million pounds (2.6 million dollars) to Iraqi government to help fight the Islamic State (IS), the British defence ministry

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  Britain to open medical centre in Sierra Leone

  World | September 09, 2014 7:04 IST

  London: British military and humanitarian experts will set up a medical treatment centre for victims of the Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, a British official announced on Monday.Britain's support follows a direct request from the

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  New anti-terror measures to be introduced in Britain: David Cameron

  World | September 02, 2014 8:43 IST

  London: British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday said his country will introduce a slew of measures to prevent terror suspects from travelling abroad, imposing tougher constraints on suspected extremists in the country."To confront the

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  Iraqi forces break militant siege of Shiite town

  World | August 31, 2014 17:23 IST

  Baghdad: A military spokesman and a lawmaker say Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen have broken a two-month siege imposed by the Islamic State extremist group on the northern Shiite Turkmen town of Amirli.Army spokesman

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  Afghan Sikh stowaways were trapped in container for 18 hours

  World | August 19, 2014 7:35 IST

  London: Sikh men, women and children found in a shipping container in Britain were fleeing persecution in Afghanistan and had been trapped in the airless compartment without food or water for 18 hours, their translator

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  Barack Obama affirms strong ties with Britain

  World | July 22, 2014 7:06 IST

  Washington: US President Barack Obama and Ed Miliband, leader of the British opposition Labour Party, on Monday affirmed the strong ties that bind the US and Britain, the White House said in a statement.The president

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  Britain's William Hague steps down as foreign secretary

  World | July 15, 2014 8:20 IST

  London: British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Monday he will stand down as foreign secretary after four years to serve as leader of the British House of Commons."I will not stand as an MP

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  Britain to give military training to Libyan security forces

  World | June 12, 2014 11:20 IST

  London: Britain's defence ministry announced on Wednesday that the British Army is to train over 300 members of the Libyan security forces in the coming six months.The Libyan forces, who arrived in Britain Tuesday, will

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  Britain to help Myanmar reform police force

  World | June 04, 2014 11:59 IST

  Yangon: Britain will introduce an aid programme to help Myanmar reform its police force, state media said on Wednesday.The implementation of the British assistance programme was discussed when Gen. David Richard, former Chief of the