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Famed British wartime code center under threat
- Cramped into makeshift wooden huts on the grounds of a swank Victorian mansion, Britain's sharpest mathematical minds waged a secret war against Nazi Germany - cracking Adolf Hitler's supposedly unbreakable codes.
- Cramped into makeshift wooden huts on the grounds of a swank Victorian mansion, Britain's sharpest mathematical minds waged a secret war against Nazi Germany - cracking Adolf Hitler's supposedly unbreakable codes.
Military chief: More UK troops will leave Iraq in 2009
- Britain plans to substantially scale back its troop numbers in Iraqi during 2009, the head of the country's armed forces said Sunday.
Britain to press EU to act against Zimbabwe regime
- British Prime Minster Gordon Brown will press the European Union to take harsher action against Zimbabwe, after Russia and China vetoed proposed new sanctions at the U.N. Security Council, his office said Saturday.
Britain urging return to wartime food frugality
- Waste not, want not.
Ex-spy chief opposes planned new terror laws
- The ex-head of Britain's MI5 domestic spy agency said Tuesday she opposes Prime Minister Gordon Brown's plans for tougher new anti-terrorism laws.
Syria says it will soon send ambassador to Paris
- Syria will soon send an ambassador to Paris for the first time in two years, ending a freeze in relations between the two nations, the country's top diplomat in London said Tuesday.
UK lawmakers to launch new rendition probe
- Lawmakers pledged Sunday to study the movements of planes and ships traveling to the remote British outpost Diego Garcia amid persistent suspicion it is used by U.S. authorities to detain or transfer terrorism suspects.
US: Only 2 rendition flights landed on UK soil
- The United States has told Britain it has found no further "extraordinary rendition" flights that passed through British territory following checks of hundreds of flights, Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Thursday.
Paulson: no quick fix for oil price
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned Thursday that rising oil prices are likely to prolong the world economic slowdown.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson warned Thursday that rising oil prices are likely to prolong the world economic slowdown.