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Days after Britain imposed punitive measures against Beijing for committing human rights abuses against its Uighur minority citizens, China retaliated on Friday, blacklisting British nationals and organizations that "spread lies and disinformation." China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the sanctions against nine British people and four organizations in a statement, threatening to take further actions if necessary. SAP S/4HANA provides agility in uncertain times, by turning data into predictive insights. British Parliament members Tom Tugendhat, Iain Duncan Smith, Neil O'Brien, Tim Loughton and Nusrat Ghani were sanctioned along with David Alton and Helena Kennedy of the House of Lords, barrister...

Irish Catholics appear set to snub Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Britain with fewer than 1,000 of them expected to make the pilgrimage. Some 88% of the island's population is Catholic, but the Pope is not visiting Ireland. Churchgoers from north and south of the Irish border have been invited to attend a papal mass in Britain, but only a third of the 2,500 tickets allocated to them have been sold. "It will take much more than a papal visit to restore the credibility of the church in Ireland," said Patsy McGarry, the Irish Times' religious affairs correspondent. "The institution...

Britain warned Iceland that it would be frozen out of the European Union after its President abruptly vetoed the repayment of a £3.6 billion loan. The Treasury expected Reykjavik to rubberstamp the terms of repayment for the loan extended by Britain and the Netherlands at the height of the financial crisis. The loan meant that 400,000 savers with deposits in Icesave did not lose their money. President Ólafur Grimsson stunned the world’s financial community by refusing to sign the repayment schedule into law. Instead, he said that the matter would be decided in a referendum among Iceland’s 243,000 voters. The...

An inquest jury laid the blame for the tragedy of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter at the door of police yesterday. They also condemned the local council for failing to protect Miss Pilkington and 18-year-old Francecca from youths who hounded them to their deaths. Today the Mail reveals one of the families behind the reign of terror about which the police and council appeared either powerless or indifferent.

A man wanted by Interpol for his links to an alleged terrorist organisation has been advising Scotland Yard on countering Muslim extremism, a Times investigation has discovered. Mohamed Ali Harrath has been the subject of the Interpol red notice since 1992 because of his alleged activities in Tunisia, where he co-founded the Tunisian Islamic Front (FIT). Tunisia has accused Mr Harrath, the chief executive officer of the Islam Channel in Britain and an adviser to the Scotland Yard Muslim Contact Unit, of seeking help from Osama bin Laden. It says that the FIT wants to establish “an Islamic state by...

MPs too scared to talk about forced marriage 'in case they lose Muslim votes' Politicians are too scared to speak out against forced marriage in case they lose valuable Muslim votes, according to a veteran Labour MP. By Martin Beckford Religious Affairs Correspondent Last Updated: 12:46AM BST 02 Sep 2008 Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families. But she claimed that some politicians are afraid to speak out on...

British Defense Secretary Des Brown confirmed on Monday that the country is to send an additional 1, 300 troops to south Afghanistan. The extra troops will include an infantry battalion from the Royal Welsh Regiment and a detachment of Warrior armored cars from the 1st Battalion, The Scots Guards, Sky news reported on Monday afternoon. More artillery and aircraft will also be deployed with the additional troops. The new deployment starting from May will bright the total of British forces in Afghanistan to 7,700. The additional deployment will bring the total of British soldiers in the country to around 7,700,...

Afghanistan because most NATO allies have refused to send soldiers to battle a resurgent Taliban, Defense Secretary Des Browne said on Monday. "Put simply, the alternative is unacceptable," Browne told parliament. "This is a risk we simply cannot afford to take, both for the sake of Afghanistan, and the for the sake of our own security." Last year was the bloodiest in Afghanistan since U.S.-led troops overthrew the Taliban government in 2001 for harboring Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda network after September 11. NATO, the United States and the Taliban are all promising spring offensives in what is...

US: Cyprus oil controversy points to need for settlement 2007-02-06 11:56:47 Nicosia, Feb 6 (CNA) – The US State Department has reaffirmed its view that the oil controversy in connection with Cyprus points to the need for a settlement of the island’s long standing political problem. In a statement issued after the daily briefing outlining the US position regarding oil exploration in the continental shelf off Cyprus, State Department Spokesman Sean McCormack said that the US policy has not changed, noting that “a final settlement will enable all Cypriots to benefit from the island's resources”. “Any dispute here is between...

UCL Expresses Disgust at Israel Academic Boycott (graphic) Academic freedom in the UK allows censorship of Israel while ignoring real threats to democracy such as Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and North Korea. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem----May 30...... UCL President and Provost Malcolm Grant today expressed his concern at the vote by delegates at the National Association of Higher and Further Education (NATFHE) conference for a boycott of Israel universities and academics unless they publicly dissociate themselves from the policies of the state of Israel. It echoes a resolution that was adopted last year by the Association of...

LEEDS, England, July 15 - At Beeston's Cross Flats Park, in the center of this now embattled town, Sanjay Dutt and his friends grappled Friday with why their friend Kakey, better known to the world as Shehzad Tanweer, had decided to become a suicide bomber.

Palestinian Friday Sermon by Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris: Muslims Will Rule America and Britain, Jews Are a Virus Resembling AIDS The following are excerpts from a Friday sermon on Palestinian Authority TV. The preacher is Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris. PA TV aired this sermon on May 13, 2005 Ibrahim Mudeiris: Allah has tormented us with "the people most hostile to the believers" – the Jews. "Thou shalt find that the people most hostile to the believers to be the Jews and the polytheists." Allah warned His beloved Prophet Muhammad about the Jews, who had killed their prophets, forged their Torah, and sowed...

Everyone who lived at the Roman fort at Brougham, Cumbria, was buried in a cemetery close by. Excavation of the graves revealed an astonishing world of pagan beliefs. Hilary Cool explainsSome sites are dug before their time. Such was the case with the cemetery at Brougham in Cumbria. Brougham was long ago identified with Brocavum, a place noted in the 3rd century AD road book known as the Antonine Itinerary. Antiquarian reports had recorded Roman tombstones from the area east of the fort and vicus, an attached civilian settlement, alongside the trans-Pennine road. So excavations were planned when it was...

NEW YORK -- Bradley Moore of Washingtonville, New York, was taken to the hospital with a head injury. He managed to survive swelling and damage to his brain, but while he was in the hospital he contracted an infection. "It was the infection that killed him," Patricia Moore explained, after burying her son. "I am only one voice, one mother, but I know that hospitals can lower their infection rates by implementing simple practices such as handwashing. This problem has been ignored too long." Ignored? Kept secret is more like it. You've seen the advertisements imploring you to use this...

...The Iraqi interim government of Ayad Allawi, given sovereignty by the U.S. in June, has been establishing itself as a reliable U.S. ally. U.S. forces and Iraqi troops and police have finally cornered Muqtada al Sadr, the wild-eyed ayatollah who wants to turn Iraq into another Iran. [F]fighters appeared to be melting away ...in a sacred Shiite shrine in Najaf, although the battle continues.... ...a wave of arrests of terrorism suspects in the U.S., Britain and Pakistan.... Ashcroft announced the indictments of three men alleged to have been aiding Hamas.... [I]t is impossible to assess with any accuracy the extent...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani computer expert linked to U.S. security alerts and the arrest of 11 terrorism suspects in Britain was part of an undercover sting operation before Washington revealed his name, a Pakistani intelligence source and British media reports said yesterday. U.S. officials revealed the name of captured al Qaeda suspect Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan while he was still cooperating with Pakistani authorities in a sting operation, an intelligence source told Reuters news agency.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise visit to Iraq Sunday and told British troops they were "new pioneers of soldiering," fighting against terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and brutal regimes. In Iraq's second city Basra, in the south, Blair said world security was threatened by the "virus of Islamic extremism" and "brutal and repressive states which are developing weapons that can cause destruction on a massive scale." Blair, Washington's chief ally in invading Iraq in March and occupying it since, gave weapons of mass destruction as the main justification for joining the U.S.-led campaign despite stiff domestic opposition....

Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida Claims Responsibility for British Weapons Expert Death In Iraq By Joel Leyden, Israel News Agency 24 September 2003 [The Saudi Islamic clerics that Al-Jama'a Al-Salafiya Al-Mujahida have links to are radicals and not part of the Saudi establishment. Unfortunately, over the years the Saudis declined to act against them, thus providing a hothouse for their development.] An Israeli researcher has found the name of the terrorist group which murdered Ian Rimell, a 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert in Iraq on September 4. Lt. Col. Yoni Halevi, who was performing private research for the Jerusalem Center for Public...

The American administration is a bloodthirsty wild animal By Harold Pinter (Filed: 11/12/2002) Earlier this year, I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its after effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance, stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation...

Quarter-million march against war Demonstrators bring the streets of London to a standstill with a message of peace By James Cusick, Westminster Editor It dwarfed anything seen in central London during the 1960s and rivalled the masses that gathered for last weekend's countryside protest. A quarter of a million people taking to the streets is difficult to ignore. Organisers of the anti-war march, which crowded the streets of London and swamped Hyde Park yesterday with one of the largest mass demonstrations seen anywhere in Europe, couldn't quite believe the size of the protest they had gathered. In its early stages,...