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UK's Nick Clegg: Israeli Settlements Are 'Deliberate Vandalism'

AP | By DAVID STRINGER | Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, UK, Mahmoud Abbas, Video, David Cameron, Israel-Palestine, Nick Clegg, UK-Israel-Relations, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Israel Settlements, World News

LONDON -- Britain's deputy prime minister accused Israel on Monday of carrying out "deliberate vandalism" by continuing to build settlements on land t...

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What Shalit and Gaddafi Have in Common

Maurice Chammah | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Shahira Amin Gilad Shalit, Al Jazeera, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Violence, Journalism, Osama Bin Laden, Media News

Whatever drove Shahira Amin to put Gilad Shalit on TV in his first moments of freedom and whatever compelled everyone who could stomach it to look at Gaddafi's image, those two impulses had something in common.

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Closure Of Paper Brings No Relief To Murdoch As Pressure Mounts On All Sides

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 09.10.2011

Read More: Phone Hacking, Jeremy Hunt, Bskyb, News of the World, British Media, Rupert Murdoch, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, UK Media, News International, Phone Hacking Scandal, News Corporation, Newspapers, Media News

The scandal surrounding Rupert Murdoch's British media empire has not lessened, even after the paper at the center of the controversy was closed for g...

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UK Plans World's First State-Backed Green Investment Bank

AP | By JANE WARDELL | Posted 07.23.2011

Read More: Treasury, Nick Clegg, UK Green Bank, British Government, Activist Bank, David Government, Greenpeace, Liberal Democrats, British Bank, Environmental Bank, Business News

LONDON -- The British government outlined plans for the world's first state-backed green investment bank on Monday – a key plank of its pledge t...

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Wanted: An Opposition Party, Not a Coalition

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Conservative Party, S Teny Hoyer, Austerity Economics, David Cameron, Nancy Pelosi, Nick Clegg, Democratic Party, Congressional Progresssive Causcus Budget, Barack Obama, Paul Ryan, Congressional Prgressive Caucus, Politics News

The president and his party should consider the fate of Nick Clegg and his Liberal Democrats before committing themselves to a coalition government that's doomed to fail.

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UK Deputy Prime Minister 'Forgets' He's In Charge Of Nation

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Middle East, UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, Oman, Nick Clegg, Libya Protests@Y:World, Libya, British Prime Minister David Cameron, David Cameron, David Cameron Middle East Tour, Michael Dugher, World News

U.K. Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has become the subject of global ridicule after telling an interviewer he had "forgotten" he was in charge of th...

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Will Britain Finally Stop Bishops From Writing Its Laws?

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, Britain, United Kingdom, David Cameron, Great Britain, World News

Which two nations still reserve places in their parliaments for unelected religious clerics, who then get an automatic say in writing the laws the country's citizens must obey? The answer is Iran... and Britain.

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Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats Have Betrayed Britain

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain Liberal Party, Nick Clegg, Tories, New Labour, Britain Conservative Party, Labour Party, World News

Clegg is one of the great mysteries of British politics. In just a few days after the election, he cleared a space in his swanky new ministerial offices and staged a bonfire of his principles.

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A Tale of Two Cities: Riots in Paris, Cost cutting in London

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Student Protests, France, Welfare Cuts, Cuts British Military Spending, Strikes, Budget Cuts Britain, Sarkozy, Pension Reforms, Nick Clegg, Fuel Shortages, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, British Financila Reforms, David Cameron, Cgt, World News

The United States would do well to pay close attention to Britain's very real revolution. Washington needs a George Osborne.

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British Deputy PM: Investigate WikiLeaks' Iraq Claims

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, Iraq, Iraq War, Wikileaks, Wikileaks Iraq, Clegg Iraq, Clegg WikiLeaks, World News

LONDON — Allegations of prisoner abuse and civilian killings in Iraq from a cache of leaked U.S. secret military documents are extremely serious...

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The Tea Party's Wildest Dreams Come True -- in Britain. The Result? Disaster

Johann Hari | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Britain Economy, Britain, Margaret Thatcher, Britain Budget Cuts, Budget Cuts, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Tea Party, George Osborne, World News

The government of David Cameron just took the Tea Party's deepest fantasies -- of massive budget cuts, introduced immediately -- and imposed them on Britain.

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BRITAIN MAY PULL THE PLUG ON THE ROYAL NAVY

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Aircraft Carriers, Liam Fox, Britain Deficit, Tony Blair, Nick Clegg, Nelson, Iraq, Afghanistan, David Cameron, British Trident Nulcear Submarines, New British Budget, F-35, Politics News

PARIS - Britain's mighty Royal Navy ruled the waves until World War II, fully 25% of the globe. There are few greater epochs in history than the st...

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The New Brand of 'Human' Politicians

Christina Patterson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Politics, Nick Clegg, Ed Miliband, Labour Party, David Miliband, New Labour, David Cameron, Politics News

It almost makes you want to live in North Korea. At least there, when a swarthy younger brother is thrust on the nation, you don't have to endure mont...

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A Statesman and a Demagogue Address the UN

Evelyn Leopold | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: South Africa, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Human Rights, President Obama, Hillary Clinton Secretary of State, Israel, Palestine, Iran Nuclear Program, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, Nick Clegg, Un-General-Assembly, World News

President Obama may not have cut new ground at the United Nations, but any American listening to him had to be proud of his eloquence. Not so for Iranians who heard their president.

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Fashion Celebrates the UN General Assembly

MP Nunan | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's that time of year again -- when Manhattan bears witness to the expression of the highest aspirations for global harmony and the most inspirationa...

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Where Miliband Meets Obama

Indra Adnan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Miliband, Labour Party, Economic Crisis, Saul D Alinsky, Employment, Nick Clegg, Trade Unions, Obama, The Shift, Global Recession, Movement for Change, Shadow Foreign Minister, UK Politics, Ed Miliband, The Big Society, Left-Wing, David Cameron, World News

Obama and Miliband have this in common: despite their strong left-wing credentials, neither are wholly committed to the historical, ideological frameworks of their parties.

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Arab Oil States AWOL on Pakistani Flood Relief

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Indus River, Egypt, Pakistan Taliban, Pakistan, U.S. Agency for International Development, Nick Clegg, Pakistan Floods, Opec, United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Islamabad, Saudi Arabia, Swat Valley, Asif Zadari, Qatar, Fata, World News

Arab states fail to deliver on their promises to support international causes, such as disasters, because they refuse to empower and fund the very organizations they helped create for this purpose.

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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DK Matai | Posted 05.25.2011

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The New UK Parliament Opens With Old Traditions & A Coalition

AP | JENNIFER QUINN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, UK Parliament, David Cameron, World News

LONDON — Britain's House of Commons opened a new legislative session on Tuesday with centuries-old rituals and a stark change: its first coaliti...

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Why Did The New York Times See Nick Clegg Story While Fleet Street Missed It?

The Guardian | Peter Preston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nick Clegg, New York Times, Fleet Street, Media News

Fleet Street was furious when the Lib Dems began talking to Labour. They didn't understand what was really going on, but fortunately, the New York Tim...

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Cameron Takes The Reins In Britain

AP | DAVID STRINGER and PAISLEY DODDS | Posted 05.25.2011

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LONDON — Britain ushered in its first coalition government since World War II on Wednesday as a pair of rivals-turned-partners pledged to set as...

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Key Players In Britain's Coalition Government

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Conservative Party, David Cameron, UK Government, UK Election, United Kingdom, World News

LONDON — Britain's new coalition government was still coming into focus Wednesday. Here are some of its key players: Prime Minister – Con...

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Nick Clegg Faces Agonizing Coalition Choice

AP | JENNIFER QUINN and JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg, Labour Party, David Cameron, Conservative Party, World News

LONDON — The kingmaker in Britain's drama-soaked election faces what must be an agonizing choice. Nick Clegg of the Liberal Democrats must deci...

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UK Election: Conservatives, Lib Dems Report Progress In

AP | PAISLEY DODDS and DAVID STRINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gordon Brown, UK Election 2010, United Kingdom, UK Election, David Cameron, Nick Clegg, UK Election Results, UK Elections, Hung Parliament, World News

LONDON — British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made a dramatic bid to keep his beleaguered Labour Party in power after it was punished in election...

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