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• European travel woes ease, but thousands still stranded

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 552
  This week’s travel chaos in Europe eased today as British Airways started flying again from London’s Heathrow Airport and Eurostar partially resumed rail service from London to Paris and Brussels, but the hassles are far from over. Thanks to continued rough weather and cascading flight cancellations and delays, ...
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• China and Britain Get Testy Over Climate Pact

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  Chinese officials, stung by criticism in the West that China had sabotaged climate talks, said wealthy nations were intentionally sowing discord among developing countries.
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• 2010 GP3 Series calendar revealed

  
  Flagworld.com >> News — Authority: 157
  Eight rounds in the 2010 season The GP3 Series is proud to unveil its inaugural race calendar. Eight rounds have been confirmed for the 2010 season, seven of which will support the FIA Formula One World Championship. The season goes green in Barcelona where Formula One kicks off its European season. GP3 will ...
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• Pound Suffers on U.K.’s Recession Numbers

  
  Forex News — Authority: 137
  The pound declined today versus the euro and the U.S. dollar as the Great Britain did not manage to find its way out of recession like multiple wealthy nations around the world already did, shunning investors from pound-priced assets in currency and equities markets.(...) Read the rest of Pound Suffers on ...
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• Thinking Beyond the Navy Pt 2

  
  New Wars — Authority: 502
  The tyranny of distance makes it difficult for our Navy to operate affordable and capable warships. Our need to sail to any point on the globe will always push up their size and cost. Today, our capable warships are spread thin. Often, we must use a ship with more capability than needed because nothing else [...]
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• British Regulator Backs Merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 901
  In a reversal, Britain’s antitrust regulator said Tuesday that it had approved the proposed merger, marking a victory for the ticketing agent and the concert promoter.
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• UK drops terrorism charges against Libyan

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 582
  A Libyan national who has been under restriction for the past six years in the United Kingdom on terrorism charges has won his long court battle against the UK Home Office and Security Services. Faraj Hassan told Press TV over phone on Monday that his solicitors tried hard and finally succeed in convincing a High ...
  20 hours ago

• UK fails to halt female genital mutilation

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  By Nina Lakhani Hundreds of British schoolgirls are facing the terrifying prospect of female genital mutilation (FGM) over the Christmas holidays as experts warn the practice continues to flourish across the country. Parents typically take their daughters back to their country of origin for FGM during ...
  21 hours ago

• Eurostar to resume limited train service for delayed travelers

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 552
  Eurostar said today that it will partially resume service Tuesday on its high-speed rail link between London and the continent’s Paris and Brussels stations after a three-day, safety-related shutdown during the height of the holiday travel season. But the service, it said, will be limited to customers who were ...
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• Goldman May Move 20% of UK Staff to Spain

  
  WHAT REALLY HAPPENED — Authority: 582
  Goldman Sachs warns UK Treasury it may transfer 20% of its 5,000 London staff to Spain in protest over UK tax and bonuses WRH permalink
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• In the Dublin auction houses

  
  Andrew Cusack — Authority: 425
  T HOUGH THE BORING brains of tawdry metropolitan Londoners are all too quick at relegating Dublin to the provincial periphery of the mind, the Irish capital is a perpetual treasure trove for the old-fashioned and right-minded. A number of items of interests have recently been sold at the auction houses of the fair ...
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• The Oratory as It Was Built

  
  Andrew Cusack — Authority: 425
  Since we explored Brompton Oratory as it might have been , here is the Oratory as it was built. The façade were finally completed in 1893 to a design by George Sherrin, with the dome following in 1894-95 by Sherrin’s assistant E. A. Rickards. How is the Oratory as depicted above different from the Oratory today? ...
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• British Airways cancels all flights from Heathrow tonight; other airlines also report weather disruptions

  
  L.A. Times - Daily Travel Deal Blog — Authority: 552
  I heard it on Twitter first. British Airways (@BritishAirways) sent its Twitter followers a message that said:“All European & UK Domestic flights departing after 1900 tonight from London Heathrow are now canceled. Guidelines.”Nine minutes later,  the airline followed with this request:“Please do not go to ...
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• Eurostar to suspend Channel train service indefinitely

  
  Gadling — Authority: 701
  Filed under: North America , Belgium , France , United Kingdom , Transportation , News Most people think "airlines" when the topic turns to the misery of holiday travel. Well, the trains are getting in on the action now. European railway Eurostar s Channel Tunnel train, which connects England and ...
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• ‘Tis the Season for Shoplifting

  
  Constant Conservative — Authority: 138
  Christians (and just about everyone else) understand that shoplifting is simply a fancy 3-syllable word for stealing. That is, I though we all did : Delivering his festive lesson, Father Jones told the congregation: ‘My advice, as a Christian priest, is to shoplift.  I do not offer such advice because I think ...
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• And next time you hear about how much crime numbers are improving

  
  Irons in the Fire — Authority: 521
  in Britain, remember this: Date disclosed in a parliamentary answer showed that many crimes go unsolved by police, and even when offenders are identified, they are often dealt with by “out of court” penalties like cautions and fines . In 2008/09, the detection rate for offences against the person – which ...
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• Hamas helping British dhimmi lawyers target Israel

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 546
  A new and insidious form of the courtroom jihad. Why is a group that is considered a terrorist organization in Britain able to operate so freely in that country? "Hamas helping British lawyers target Israel," by Con Coughlin in the Telegraph , December 21 Activists from Hamas, the Palestinian group, have ...
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• “Outrage over Lockerbie bomber’s £2m bank account”

  
  Fausta's Blog — Authority: 142
  Remember Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber? Yes, the guy who five months ago only had three months to live because of terminal prostate cancer? The guy who was sent to Libya to live his final days? Yeah, the guy who was given a hero’s welcome , and who goes missing whenever he feels like it. ...
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• MK Tirosh: Uk boycott makes peace talks irrelevant | International News | Jerusalem Post

  
  NOAH DAVID SIMON : — Authority: 146
  If Great Britain wants to still dictate its ability to control the region then maybe Israel should not recognize Jordan which was not part of the original agreement that their government had with the Jews for the territory that was occupied by their country. MK Ronit Tirosh (Kadima) accused the UK of ...
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• Who is a Jew, Again.

  
  Jewschool — Authority: 538
  You might think we would be getting tired of this topic by now. But, no, we need to revisit it periodically just to forget about how many other worthwhile problems we could be addressing. An Orthodox Jewish school in London was found guilty of violating UK racial discrimination laws . The problem at hand was that a ...
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