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By , on May 22nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Around 600 Afghan interpreters who served with British forces fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan will be allowed to stay in Britain, the government revealed on Wednesday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 14th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Reuters in Boston British Prime Minister David Cameron paid tribute to the victims of the Boston marathon bombing on Tuesday in a visit to the site of the attack, saying Britain stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States against terrorism. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 13th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The UK’s 100 biggest public companies are running more than 8,000 subsidiaries or joint ventures in onshore and offshore tax havens, according to research published on Monday (12MAY), raising fresh concerns about the full extent of corporate tax avoidance. The figures, published by the charity ActionAid, show that only two of the companies listed on the UK’s FTSE 100 have no subsidiaries in tax havens – while companies such as Barclays and Tesco own hundreds. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 9th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain does not support a Tibetan state independent of China, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday amid reports of Chinese anger at his meeting with the Dalai Lama last year. Cameron told parliament that Britain respected China’s sovereignty and ministers recognised Tibet as part of China. Britain officials deny that Chinese anger at the meeting between Cameron and the Tibetan spiritual leader in May last year could scupper the prime minister’s plans to visit China by the end of this year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 8th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron pledged a fresh clampdown on immigration in the Queen’s Speech on Wednesday, seeking to bolster his right-wing credentials and counter the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP). Measures to restrict migrants’ access to healthcare and tackle illegal immigration form a central part of the speech, which sets out the British government’s legislative priorities for the year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 2nd, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s ruling Conservatives were yesterday at risk of losing hundreds of seats in local polls amid a surge in popularity for the anti-European Union UK Independence Party (UKIP). The elections will go some way to measuring the threat UKIP will pose to the Conservatives’ hopes of re-election in 2015. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on April 29th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Three Britons were each sentenced to four years’ jail on drug charges in a Dubai court yesterday – a decision that may overshadow a visit to Britain by the United Arab Emirates president because of allegations that the defendants were tortured. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By By ALAN COWELL and HWAIDA SAAD, on April 26th, 2013 Prime Minister David Cameron echoed the caution of the Obama administration and ruled out direct British military intervention.
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By , on April 7th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Cameron’s Conservative-Liberal coalition government, trying to rein in the national budget deficit, is bringing in a series of changes to the system this month – in the face of bitter opposition from the Labour Party. The debate has been fuelled by the case of Mick Philpott, a nationally notorious welfare-dependent father of 18, who was jailed last week for the manslaughter of six children in setting fire to his own house. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Tom Doran, on April 1st, 2013 These are dark and precarious times for David Cameron.
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By David Frum, on March 25th, 2013 Wow. Like Lyndon Johnson losing Walter Cronkite over Vietnam, it's big news that David Cameron has lost Tim Montgomerie: Conservative intellectual-activist, founder of the popular ConservativeHome website, and newly appointed comment editor of the London Times.
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By , on March 19th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s newspapers vowed to closely scrutinise a deal struck on Monday by the main political parties for a tough new press regulator, which they warned threatens 318 years of press freedom. MPs insisted the agreement would rein in the kind of misdeeds exposed by the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, without curbing press freedom, but the newspapers said the government had “crossed the Rubicon”. Prime Minister David Cameron said the new regulator would have the power to issue harsh sanctions on misbehaving newspapers, including fines of up to US$1.5 million. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 18th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Britain’s three main political parties agreed on Monday to create a new system to regulate the country’s scandal-hungry newspapers, after a public inquiry exposed a culture of industrial-scale phone hacking and other unethical behaviour. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on March 6th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday that EU plans to limit bankers’ bonuses threatened his country’s national interests, and the Bank of England said the rules would not make bankers take fewer risks. Britain was left isolated at a meeting in Brussels on Tuesday and failed to water down new EU rules limiting bankers’ bonuses, a measure that could threaten London’s dominance as a global financial centre. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By Lizzie Crocker, on March 6th, 2013 David Cameron is poised to pledge the “largest-ever” international investment to eradicate FGM. Will the initiative live up to its lofty claims?
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By , on February 21st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Grant Cameron, Karl Williams and Suneet Jeerh, all 25, were arrested while on holiday on July 10 after police allegedly found a synthetic form of cannabis known as “spice” in their car. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 20th, 2013 
The Red Arrows RAF display team’s future is safe as long as David Cameron is prime minister, Number 10 says, dismissing speculation it could be axed.
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By , on February 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A split has emerged in the British government on managing its cooling relations with China, The Sunday Times newspaper said, citing sources. Prime Minister David Cameron and finance minister George Osborne are keen to avoid raising tension with Beijing due to concerns that escalating hostility could damage trade ties. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on February 10th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> In his latest attempt to convince Scots ahead of a referendum on independence next year, Cameron urged Scotland to avoid breaking the nation apart, saying that it had the best of both worlds as things are. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on January 31st, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> British Prime Minister David Cameron arrived in the Libyan capital Tripoli on Thursday in an unannounced visit to the north African country, his office in London said. Cameron is scheduled to meet his Libyan counterpart Ali Zeidan, and then expected to hold a joint news conference, which is expected to touch upon the threat of Islamist militancy across the region. “The prime minister landed in Tripoli earlier on Thursday, and will discuss bilateral relations with Libyan officials,” a spokeswoman for his Downing Street office said. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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