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The new British Embassy in Algiers is an outstanding piece of diplomatic architecture. But it may be the very last hurrah of a cash-strapped Foreign and Commonwealth Office no longer prepared to encourage and pay for truly outstanding embassy design....
Tags: FCO, John McAslan, British Embassy, Mr Croney, Alan Croney, Britain, embassies build, designed quality, Algeria, Algiers, Tony Fretton, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Italianate architecture
The UK will be responsible for issuing the cards to UK state pensioners resident in other EU countries from next May Changes are underway to the system of issuing the European Health Insurance Cards to British expatriates living in Spain who are in receipt...
Tags: Spain, EHIC, INSS Social Security Authority, British Embassy, European Health Insurance Cards, Madrid, European Union, Social Issues, Federalism, Insurance, Labor
To say that Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon do not enjoy a particularly good reputation is a glaring understatement. More often than not, they become the focus of media attention only when violence erupts, making it hard for the Lebanese public to...
Tags: Al-Hayat, young palestinian, Palestinian, Lebanon, British Embassy, palestinian issues, palestinian journalists, Beirut, Bourj el-Barajneh, Fertile Crescent, Palestinian people, Palestine refugee camps, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Entertainment Culture
A bloody good show From Christopher Lee to Robert Pattinson, one of Britain's most popular cultural exports to America has been vampires Robert Pattinson, one in a long line of British cinema vampires who slayed American audiences. Photograph: Eamonn...
Tags: Robert Pattinson, British Embassy, British Ambassador, United Kingdom, London, Teen films, Fantasy novels, Edward Cullen, Twilight, Twilight series, Romance novels, Horror novels, Entertainment Culture
Trade and oil played a part in the decision to include the Lockerbie bomber in a prisoner transfer deal, Jack Straw has admitted. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, the UK justice secretary said trade was "a very big part" of the 2007 talks that led to...
Tags: Libyan, Oil Deal Influenced Lockerbie, lockerbie bombers, Jack Straw, Switzerland, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, oil deals, The Daily Telegraph, British Embassy, Britain
Britain will withdraw its remaining forces in Iraq to Kuwait by the end of the month after the Iraqi parliament failed to pass a deal allowing them to stay to protect oil platforms and provide training, a spokesman said Tuesday. The agreement would have...
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TEHRAN: A pro-reform Iranian clerical group said on Sunday the outcome of last month's presidential vote was "invalid," even though Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld the result. In a sign of a deepening rift among Shi'ite clerics, the Assembly...
Tags: Iran, Tehran, Washington Times, Iason Athanasiadis-Fowden, British Embassy, iran free, embassy worker
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009 From Times Online July 3, 2009 (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty) A recent demonstration outside the British Embassy in Iran Nico Hines, and David Charter in Stockholm, and Biodun Iginla, BBC News in London European leaders finally...
Tags: AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI • MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD •IRAN, BBC NEWS. BIODUN IGINLA, BBC NEWS. IRAN, BRITISH EMBASSY, EUROPEAN UNION (EU)
FRIDAY, JULY 3, 2009 Search term Explore the BBC BBC News Updated every minute of every day One-Minute World News News Front Page Africa Americas Asia-Pacific Europe Middle East South Asia UK Business Health Science & Environment Technology...
Tags: BBC NEWS BIODUN IGINLA, BBC NEWS. IRAN, BRITISH EMBASSY
The British foreign office said it was urgently seeking confirmation from Iran on the matter...The UK government says all except two have now been released. EU governments are considering temporarily withdrawing ambassadors to Iran in protest at the detentions....