Cameron urges Israeli calm on Iran
British Prime Minister David Cameron cautioned Israel on Tuesday against military action against Iran, saying diplomatic pressure could still halt the Islamic republic's disputed nuclear programme.
View Article'Fight division': Clegg stakes out pro-European position
Nick Clegg will set out his pro-European credentials tonight, in a Hague speech aiming to boost continental cooperation despite the eurozone crisis.
View ArticleCall to clamp down on debt products
Tougher action is needed to clamp down on "opaque and poorly regulated" commercial debt management companies and payday lenders, a report from MPs has urged.
View ArticleInsight - Japan missed tsunami wake-up call for change
TOKYO (Reuters) - Three months after Japan's March 11 triple disaster, a long-time expert on the country arrived in Tokyo to research a book he intended to entitle "Rebirth of a Nation." Months later,...
View ArticleChina pulls workers from Syria, seeks Libya compensation
BEIJING (Reuters) - China is bringing workers home from Syria, its Commerce Minister said on Wednesday, in an apparent attempt to avoid a repeat of last year's eleventh-hour rescue of Chinese nationals...
View ArticleSuicide bomber kills 5 police in Russia's Dagestan
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber has killed at least five policemen by blowing herself up at a traffic police post in the restive Dagestan region of southern Russia. The woman detonated her...
View ArticleGovernment should fight for Typhoon deal
Mark Menzies MP calls on the government to continue its support in securing the sale of Typhoons to India.
View ArticleMaude: Gay marriage will make us electable
Pushing ahead with gay marriage is the best way to make the Conservative party acceptable to metropolitan voters, Francis Maude will say today.
View ArticlePM defends tax credits time limit
David Cameron has been forced to defend the Government's plan to make parents work longer before they can receive tax credits.
View ArticleLeaders unmoving over Afghan exit after soldier deaths
Britain is making progress in Afghanistan, David Cameron has insisted, after news of the feared deaths of six UK soldiers.
View ArticleQueen in nation's heart, says PM
The Queen has served the country with "unerring grace, dignity and decency", Prime Minister David Cameron said in a parliamentary speech to mark the monarch's Diamond Jubilee.
View ArticleFuel tax campaigners lobby MPs
Hundreds of protesters have braved heavy rain to take their campaign for fuel duty cuts to Parliament.
View ArticlePolice chiefs 'tried to shut probe'
Two top Scotland Yard officers tried to shut down their force's investigation into Whitehall leaks to Tory MP Damian Green, the Leveson Inquiry has heard.
View ArticleMPs give rating agencies a bumpy ride
LONDON (Reuters) - Credit rating agencies were given a rough ride by politicians on Wednesday after refusing to apologise properly for "blunders" that sowed some of the seeds of the financial crisis....
View ArticleStalking to be criminal offence
Stalking is to be made a specific criminal offence, David Cameron has announced, as he promised new protection for the victims of this "abhorrent" crime.
View ArticleMPs call for eurozone collapse plan
Ministers should draw up plans to deal with a collapse of the eurozone "as a matter of urgency", a high-powered committee of MPs and peers has warned.
View ArticleBerlin berates Athens for bureaucracy stopping investment - report
BERLIN (Reuters) - Athens' failure to accept Germany's help on reducing bureaucracy and boosting private investment is disappointing, German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler was cited as saying by a...
View ArticleFamilies of Munich dead want IOC to remember 1972 tragedy
TEL AVIV (Reuters) - Forty years after 11 Israelis were killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Games, the families of the dead are urging the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to organise...
View ArticleUK 'Unprepared' For Key Security Threats
The UK is unprepared for key threats to national security, according to a committee of Lords and MPs.
View ArticleNigeria, South Africa feud over yellow fever jabs
ABUJA (Reuters) - South Africa and Nigeria are embroiled in a diplomatic spat after the authorities at Johannesburg airport deported 125 Nigerians, alleging their yellow fever vaccination certificates...
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