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Study says Britain has invaded 90 per cent of the world

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Britain may once have had an empire on which the sun never set – but a study shows its true global reach was far more extensive than maps would suggest. Throughout the ages, Britain has invaded almost 90 per cent of the world’s countries.

An analysis of the histories of almost 200 nations found that only 22 have never experienced a British More >

Prolonged showdown expected over Assange

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Britain and Ecuador face a prolonged showdown over the fate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is holed up in the South American nation’s London embassy, Britain’s foreign minister says. Assange took shelter in the Ecuadorian embassy in London in June after exhausting all appeals against extradition from Britain to Sweden, where he is wanted More >

UK Police plans for Julian Assange arrest

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A CONFIDENTIAL document photographed by Britain’s Press Association news agency lays out Scotland Yard’s simple strategy for dealing with Julian Assange should he ever try to leave Ecuador’s embassy in London. “Assange to be arrested under all circumstances,” the handwritten note says. The briefing paper, captured by an eagle-eyed photographer More >

Ecuador called on Britain to retract Assange arrest threat

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ECUADOR has called on Britain to retract a threat to arrest WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at its embassy in London, adding that Quito remains open to dialogue. The South American country sets off a diplomatic firestorm last week by granting asylum to the 41-year-old Australian, who is wanted in Sweden for questioning over allegations of More >

Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir found guilty of theft

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Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir was found guilty of theft last night over the collapse of his Polly Peck business empire, one of a series of debacles that focused public attention on the corporate greed of 1980s Britain. Nadir, formerly one of Britain’s most notorious fugitives, was found guilty of three counts of theft at the Old Bailey in More >

UK warned it will not allow Assange safe passage

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Britain has warned it will not allow Julian Assange safe passage out of the country after the WikiLeaks founder was granted political asylum by Ecuador. The South American country, which has been harbouring Assange in London, last night declared his own government in Australia had failed to protect his rights.

Ecuador’s decision dramatically More >

50th Anniversary celebration in Jamaica

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KINGSTON, Jamaica—Shrugging off economic hardships and high crime, people across Jamaica proudly wore the national colors of gold, black and green Monday to mark the Caribbean island’s 50th anniversary of independence from Britain.

Telephone poles and street lights were wrapped in the flag’s colors across the scenic island of less than 3 million More >

Britain voiced concerned at Iran missile test

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Britain has voiced renewed concern over Iran’s military ambitions after Tehran claimed it had successfully test-fired an upgraded version of its short-range ballistic missile.

The Foreign Office said the test called into question Iran’s claims that its nuclear program is purely for civilian power generation, and not for military use as many in More >

Britain’s Foreign Secretary pledged help for Syrian rebels

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Britain’s Foreign Secretary William Hague has pledged greater support for Syria’s rebel fighters, as the battle for the country’s commercial capital Aleppo intensified.

“Given the scale of death and suffering and the failure so far of the diplomatic process we will, over the coming weeks, increase our practical but non-lethal support,” Hague More >

UK reporter arrests over cell phone thefts

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LONDON—Police and News International say a 37-old-year reporter with The Sun tabloid has been arrested in an inquiry into the alleged gathering of data from stolen cell phones.

Scotland Yard says the man is the ninth person arrested as part of Operation Tuleta, which is looking into allegations of computer hacking. It is one of three parallel More >

Islamist cleric to launch new bid for release in UK

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LONDON—Radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada is launching a new legal bid at Britain’s High Court for release from detention.

Abu Qatada, who has been described in Spanish and British courts as a leading al-Qaida figure in Europe, is being held in a high-security prison while he fights deportation to Jordan over terror charges. Both the British and More >

UK Chancellor under pressure as the economy shrank

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Britain’s Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne was under intense pressure to change course after worse-than-expected official figures showed the country’s economy shrank by 0.7 per cent between April and June.

Liberal Democrats called for a “Plan A plus” to stimulate growth and one Liberal Democrat peer called for the Chancellor to be More >

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