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British Ambassador in Yemen Narrowly Escapes Bomb Attack

 

The British ambassador in Yemen escaped a homicide bomb attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armored car at a poor neighborhood of San’a, officials said.

Police and forensic officers gather evidence from the site of a suicide bomb blast in Sanaa April 26, 2010. An explosion near [...]

UK-US special relationship ‘over’

 

Prime ministers of all hues, from Harold Macmillan to Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, have fostered the idea that the two largest English-speaking countries enjoy a historic bond which elevates their relationship to a special level.

But MPs on the cross-party foreign affairs select committee said this romantic vision had had its day. "The use of the [...]

Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’

The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK’s ambassador to Uzbekistan, [...]