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UK 'to end direct aid to 16 countries'
February 27, 2011The UK is to stop direct aid to 16 countries, including Russia, China and Iraq, papers seen by the BBC suggest. A draft copy of a government review of its overseas aid budget - to be published this week - also reveals aid to India will be frozen...
Barack Obama coming to UK on state visit in May
February 18, 2011Buckingham Palace has confirmed US President Barack Obama will come to the UK on a state visit in May. It is the first state visit by a US president since that of President George W Bush and his wife, Laura, in 2003. President Obama came to the UK...
Britain reveals size of nuclear stockpile
May 27, 2010Britain has announced for the first time the size of its nuclear arsenal, saying it has 225 warheads. Foreign Secretary William Hague told parliament Wednesday that the time is right to re-examine Britain's policy on the use of nuclear weapons. Hague...
Video: Great Britain's new coalition government gets to work
May 13, 2010By Sonja Pace Britain has a new coalition government with Conservative Party leader David Cameron as prime minister and his coalition partner, Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats as deputy. After days of political negotiations, the task of governing...
Conservative David Cameron will be Britain's youngest PM in 200 years
May 11, 2010British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has resigned, opening the door for Britain's first Conservative-led government in 13 years. Queen Elizabeth Tuesday appointed Conservative Party leader David Cameron as the new prime minister and asked him to form...
9 May: Western troops march on Russia's Red Square (video)
May 09, 2010By Peter Fedynsky Troops from the United States and three other NATO countries have joined Russian troops in a march on Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the allied victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Russian President Dmitri Medvedev greeted...
UK election: Conservatives offer deal to Liberal Democrats to form government
May 08, 2010Talks between senior Conservatives and Liberal Democrats continued late into Friday as the parties tried to broker a deal to form the next government. A day after the polls closed, it remains unclear who will lead the country after the general election...
Russian ex-KGB officer buys Britain's Independent
March 25, 2010Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev bought Britain's struggling Independent and Independent on Sunday newspapers. Lebedev, an ex KGB agent, paid one pound (1.1 euros, 1.5 dollars) for the papers, while its current owners will pay 9.25 million pounds in the...
UK to grant Moldova 4.5 million pounds to back social assistance
March 11, 2010Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat and British Ambassador to Moldova Keith Shannon today signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and Moldova's government. The document sees budget...
Thousands of Russians seek asylum in EU, Ukraine
March 05, 2010More than 5,000 Russian citizens sought political asylum in the European Union in the third quarter of 2009, more than from any other country, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports. According to European Statistics Agency data, the largest single category...