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UAE 'close to deciding on fighters'The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is close to deciding whether to buy British or French fighter jets, after nearly five years of talks and numerous diplomatic visits. French firm Dassault's Raf More… |
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Prince William and Kate expecting babyBritain's Prince William and his wife Catherine are expecting a baby, destined to be the country's future monarch, although the mother-to-be is in hospital with a type of very acute morning sickness that sometimes indicates twins. More… |
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Batelco to acquire CWC units in $1bn dealBatelco Group, the regional telecommunications operator with operations across six countries, has announced plans to acquire some units of British multinational telecommunications company Cable & Wireless Communications (CWC), including its More… |
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UK millionaire pleads guilty in Iran missile schemeBritish millionaire Christopher Tappin pleaded guilty in federal court in Texas on Thursday to charges of attempting to sell missile parts to Iran, prosecutors said. Tappin, 66, from Orpington, Kent, who had previously pleaded not More… |
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Japanese, UK scientists win Nobel medicine prizeA British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases. Briton John Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka equa More… |
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19 killed in Nepal air crashA small plane crashed shortly after takeoff from the Nepali capital of Kathmandu on Friday, killing 19 people, including seven British and five Chinese passengers, an airline official said. The twin-engine propeller-driven Dornier More… |
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BP keen to buy stake in RosneftBritish oil company BP wants to buy a stake in Russian state-controlled peer Rosneft, adding a new dimension to a long-running struggle for control of a big chunk of the country's oil production. BP chief executive Bob Dudley More… |
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Mideast contracts getting delayed: PetrofacBritish oil services firm Petrofac warned that customers were delaying the award of contracts in its core Middle East market from this year to next, raising analysts' concerns about its profit outlook. More… |
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UK's factory output slips in new blowBritish manufacturing output posted an unexpected fall in April, raising the risk of a longer recession and turning up pressure on policymakers to take action to boost economic growth. The Bank of England shied away from injecting more cas More… |
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Property developers bullish on LondonBritish real estate developers Teford Homes and St. Modwen said the residential property market in London and the south east of England remained robust and would underpin their growth in 2012. Telford Homes, the London-focused residential More… |
