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Britain ends combat role in Afghanistan, last US Marines hand over base

CAMP LEATHERNECK: British troops ended their combat operations in Afghanistan on Sunday as they and… Read More

Former Cream frontman Jack Bruce dies aged 71

LONDON: Jack Bruce, who formed influential British rock band Cream in the 1960s with guitarist… Read More

Obama authorizes reservists for Ebola fight in W.Africa

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama on Thursday authorized the Pentagon to send reservists to take part… Read More

British MPs to hold non-binding vote to recognise Palestine

LONDON: British lawmakers were to vote Monday on whether to recognise Palestine as a state… Read More

British soldiers training peshmerga in Iraq

LONDON: British soldiers are in Iraq training the Kurdish peshmerga forces battling Islamic State jihadists,… Read More

British PM says Scottish independence issue settled ‘for a generation’

LONDON:  British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Friday that the question of Scottish independence… Read More

Al Qaeda in Yemen executes three ‘spies’ for guiding drone strikes

SANAA: Al Qaeda militants in Yemen executed three local men in the easterly Hadramout province… Read More

South Africa detains one of Britain’s “most wanted fugitives”

JOHANNESBURG: A South African court on Monday remanded convicted British drug trafficker and fraudster Martin Evans,… Read More