ONE (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
David Cole from the ONE UK office reports on this interesting development with 1GOAL: © 2009 Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK Foreign Office Minister Glenys Kinnock has signed up to the 1GOAL campaign during her recent visit to South Africa. Speaking at Winnie Ngwekazi Primary School in Soweto, she said “Many millions more children are in school...
Peter Black AM (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
The Prime Minister faces some major challenges on the foreign policy front if this poll reported in the Independent on Sunday is anything to go by. They say that seven out of 10 Britons believe that there should be a phased withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. They tell us that a report by Oxfam reveals how women and children in Afghanistan are bearing the brunt of the ongoing conflict,...
Sify (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
British Cabinet ministers have begun to question the future of the combat mission in Afghanistan as pressure on Gordon Brown mounts over the conflict, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Their comments followed last week's public comments from Kim Howells, the former Foreign Office minister who is now Mr Brown's intelligence and security watchdog, who called last week for the "great majority" of Britain's 9,000-strong force in Afghanistan to be withdrawn.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Tories accuse Phil Woolas of 'crass' remarks A government minister was today accused of being "crass" after he claimed British troops were in Afghanistan to stop asylum seekers fleeing to the UK, hours after five more troops were killed. The immigration minister, Phil Woolas, made the remarks while giving evidence to MPs on the Commons home affairs committee. "If this...
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
... Equality Bill would face firm opposition from the House of Lords. In July a homosexual Government minister called on the Church of England to allow same-sex civil partnerships to be celebrated in churches. Chris Bryant, a junior Foreign Office minister, said churches should be “much more open” to treating civil partnerships like marriage. A spokesman for the Church of...
Trinidad Express (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
A ’SPECIAL place’ and hospital heaven was how UK Foreign Office Minister Baroness Glenys Kinnock described the Just Because Foundation (JBF) Specialty Unit at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex (EWMSC), Mt Hope during a visit yesterday.
Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
The British High Commission said the Foreign Office Minister with responsibility for the Caribbean and the Commonwealth reinforced the UK’s commitment to the Caribbean during ...
icWales (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Gordon Brown confirms Britain will send more troops to Afghanistan by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail MORE than 500 Welsh troops will be sent to Afghanistan to bolster the British mission there, Gordon Brown confirmed yesterday.The Prime Minister had pledged “in principle” last month to increase the UK deployment, subject to the availability of equipment, sufficient help from other nations and...
Money Outlook (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
The work of a local manufacturing company which has thrived during the credit crunch by tapping into the export market has been praised by Aylesbury MP and shadow foreign office minister David Lidington.
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
The threat of al-Qaeda-linked terror attacks in Mali has pushed the United Kingdom to include Timbuktu on its ‘terrorism’ travel warning long list. The UK Foreign Office admitted this week that the new travel advisory to British tourists has raised the threat in and around Mali’s often-quoted oasis town to “high” after a surge in kidnappings [...]
Pan-African News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
... the threat of terrorism. The remote town is included on an updated travel advisory issued by the Foreign Office. A British tourist, Edwin Dyer, was killed in Mali in June by a group which claims links to al-Qaeda. But local officials insist the threat is being exaggerated. They say such warnings are already having a crippling effect on the tourism industry. The vast area of the Sahara...
The Wall Street Journal (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
... a Georgian tycoon whose death in February triggered a battle over his assets. Reuters British Foreign Secretary David Miliband has taken up Thames Steel's claims with the Georgian government.The dispute has gotten the attention of British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who has taken it up with the Georgian government, a spokesman for the British Foreign and Commonwealth...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
British Join Chorus of 2010 Safety Alarmism Mninawa NtlokoJohannesburg — DANNY Jordaan -- CEO of the 2010 Soccer World Cup local organising committee -- yesterday expressed his displeasure at reports the British government had warned fans to be on the alert for hijackers when they arrive in SA for the soccer showpiece next June.British foreign office minister Chris Bryant was quoted...
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... tournament on June 11.That will leave most fans hiring cars or taking taxis, and the government's foreign office says they should be on guard."South Africa is a wonderfully diverse country and promises our fans a great experience next summer," foreign office minister Chris Bryant said. "However, it is crucial that those planning to travel to the region are aware...
