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Argentinians petition against UK referendum on Falkland sovereignty
Argentinians gathered in capital Buenos Aires after a nationwide campaign was launched to collect one million signatures against a UK-backed referendum on the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands, Press TV reports.
People of all walks of life including war veterans, students, and artists gathered at the Obelisk monument to say that South Atlantic territories seized by the UK centuries ago, belong to...
Falkland Islanders vote in cotroversial referendum
The residents on Falkland Islands are set to vote on March 10-11, 2013
Falkland Islanders are taking part in a controversial referendum, to decide whether or not the residents want to remain under Britain’s control, as Argentina dismisses the ballot as illegal.
During two days, Sunday and Monday, the polling stations will be open for 1,672 eligible voters to cast their ballot.
The vote is a yes or...
Turkey in the European Union
Recently there have been more strident calls for Turkey to join the European Union from the Americans, Cameron, the Swedes and others.
However Germany and France are opposed to this because they have large Muslim populations and have seen the results.
Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy stated in January 2007 that “enlarging Europe with no limit risks destroying European political union,...
UK falls behind on premature mortality
A study shows that Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries.
Britain has a worse record of premature death than other developed countries, a new research reveals.
According to a detailed analysis of the 2010 Global Burden of Disease data, in 1990 the UK ranked 10th in a league table of 19 countries showing years of life lost (YLL) per 100,000 members of the population....
UK seeks US backing on Falklands
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, and William Hague, the UK Foreign Secretary, in joint press conference in London.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry came under intense pressure by the British authorities on Monday to reveal what stance Washington may choose to take on the dispute over Las Malvinas Islands (the Falklands), local media reported.
On his first foreign trip as Secretary of State, John...
Swiss food giant Nestle hit by horsemeat scandal
Horsemeat products at a horse butcheray in Dortmund.
The Swiss-based food giant Nestle has been hit by a widespread horsemeat contamination scandal, forcing it to remove products from European stores.
“Our tests have found traces of horse DNA in two products,” Nestle said in a statement on Monday, adding, “The mislabeling of products means they fail to meet the very high standards...
Novel coronavirus infection - from SARS to SARI
Twelve cases, six deaths, no cure, a new deadly viral infection, fifty per cent mortality rate. It is lethal, it is unknown in humans, it can be transmitted from human to human, the mechanism is a mystery and it is spreading. On Sunday a patient admitted to hospital in the United Kingdom died of NCoV – Novel Coronavirus.
The scientific community is facing its worst nightmare: a pathogenic virus...
Nigerian criminal deported 8 years ago from UK returnes to run 2.7 mil scam
Jailed: Osas Odia, who returned to Britain after being deported, has been jailed for two years for his role in a £2.7million lottery scam
A Nigerian who returned to Britain after being deported has been jailed for his role in a £2.7million lottery scam.
Osas Odia, 33, was booted out of the UK in 2005 after immigration officials discovered he was using a forged stamp in his passport to work.
However,...
Assange believes freedom lies in winning Australian senate seat
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange addresses members of the media and supporters from the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in Knightsbridge, west London, December 20, 2012.
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange believes that he can extricate from his prolonged asylum inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London if he wins a seat in Australia’s upper house of parliament.
“The US Department of Justice won’t...
UK hate preacher calls on fanatics to live off the state and plan holy war
Anjem Choudary has been recorded telling followers to claim benefits as part of their struggle to bring Sharia law to the UK.
A controversial Muslim cleric who lives off benefits is urging his followers to also sponge off UK taxpayers by claiming their ‘Jihad seeker’s allowance’.
Anjem Choudary, who in the past has planned to disrupt the minute’s silence on Remembrance Sunday,...
New wave of immigration from Eastern Europe to flood UK with beggars
A police officer prepares to search a group of Romanians living on Park Lane’s central reservation in London Up to 40 beggars have made Park Lane their home, transforming a stretch of the central reservation into a gambling den and doss house
On Saturday, in the first part of this major series on the expected imminent influx of unskilled workers from Romania and Bulgaria, we revealed how countless...
US worried about UK's EU exit
US officials have repeatedly valued Britain’s membership of the European Union (EU), saying they do not want the UK to leave the 27-nation bloc.
Last month, British Prime Minster David Cameron set a deadline to hold a national in-out referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union by the end of 2017.
In his long-awaited speech on Europe in the City of London on January 23, Cameron...
Dresden bombing, Britain's forgotten war crime of WWII
While Britain claims to be an advocate of human rights in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and many other countries around the world, British history itself is corroborating evidence that Britain, the greatest human rights preacher, has also been the most flagrant human rights breacher.
More than 500,000 German civilians and refugees, mostly women and children, were slaughtered by Britain’s saturation...
Shocking new healthcare scandals emerge in UK
A British health manager warned the boss of the NHS four years ago that his hospital was a threat to patients’ safety. A nationwide investigation into avoidable hospital deaths has found that such warnings from doctors were often silenced or ignored.
Gary Walker, the former chief of United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust, was silenced in 2010 under a £500,000 ‘super gag’ agreement; he is now...
UK accuses Argentina of bullying over Falkland Islands
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has accused Argentina of “bullying and intimidatory” behavior following his Argentine counterpart Hector Timmerman’s comments that the Malvinas Islands (Falklands) will be controlled from Buenos Aires in 20 years.
Hague insisted that the South Atlantic islands will remain under British rule for centuries, labeling Timmerman’s remarks as “fantasy”...