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April 14, 2013
4:28 am

A protester wears a mask depicting former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a party to mark her death in central London's Trafalgar square, Saturday, April 13, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Anti-Thatcher party hits London’s Trafalgar Square

Festivities indicate depth of hatred some Britons still feel for their recently deceased former leader

April 10, 2013
6:29 am

US Secretary of State John Kerry, left, walks with British Foreign Secretary William Hague in London in February. The two leaders are taking part in a G8 foreign ministers meeting Wednesday and Thursday, also in London. (photo credit: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

North Korea, Syria to dominate G8 foreign ministers summit

Syrian opposition to meet ministers on sidelines of London talks; US Senators look to China to engage Pyongyang over its recent behavior

By Michal Shmulovich and AP

April 8, 2013
11:55 pm

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad speaks during a ceremony at the nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz. (photo credit: AP/Hasan Sarbakhshian/File)

US lawmakers push for new sanctions on Iran

Bill could target regime officials with travel bans and seizure of assets

April 8, 2013
10:02 pm

Margaret Thatcher with Yitzhak Shamir in Jerusalem in 1986. (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

An admirer of Israel who backed Peres over Shamir, diplomacy over settlements

Margaret Thatcher’s insistence that Israel ‘safeguard the rights of Arabs in the occupied territories’ prefigured Obama’s very similar comments here last month

By Azriel Bermant

April 8, 2013
8:47 pm

Shimon Peres and Margaret Thatcher, undated (photo credit: Yaakov Saar/GPO)

Thatcher, the friend who pushed Israel to make peace

Baroness was also said to have had a rocky relationship with PM Menachem Begin and objected to Israel’s bombing Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor

April 8, 2013
3:33 pm

Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

Netanyahu calls Britain’s first female premier a ‘woman of greatness’ and a ‘staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people’

By Gregory Katz and Robert Barr

April 8, 2013
3:04 pm

Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

From the web Conservative who led country from 1979 to 1990 suffers fatal stroke, BBC reports

April 4, 2013
1:43 pm

British Prime Minister David Cameron (screen capture: Youtube/Channel4News)

UK to hold on to nukes to counter threats, PM says

David Cameron warns against giving up deterrent in light of developments in North Korea

April 3, 2013
11:21 pm

Jabhat al-Nusra fighters bearing arms and the group's flag after an attack on a Syrian army convoy. (photo credit: image capture from YouTube video uploaded by MindTrip2m)

‘Up to 600 Europeans among ranks of Syrian rebels’

UK study finds volunteers from 14 EU countries have joined fight against Assad, warns that such fighters have gone on to feature in European-based terror plots

By Times of Israel staff

March 29, 2013
10:04 pm

Illustrative photo of an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holding a chicken later to be slaughtered as part of a Kaparot ritual (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman /Flash90)

Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning ritual slaughter

38% of respondents say they also support ban on non-medical circumcision

March 29, 2013
4:19 am

Britons in Gaza convoy kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Libya

From the web Three women in aid convoy to Palestinians nabbed in Benghazi, Guardian reports

March 28, 2013
2:20 pm

Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky talks to the media after losing a case against Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich as he leaves the High Court in London, in 2012. (photo credit: AP)

Police say Russian tycoon found dead had neck bound

British official says no sign of struggle in Putin critic Boris Berezovsky’s death, but third party involvement can’t be ruled out

March 22, 2013
4:38 pm

The European Union flag (photo credit: Serge Attal/Flash 90)

EU remains split on shipping arms to Syrian rebels

Ministers divided on whether to start transferring weapons, with most insisting that the move would only make matters worse

March 18, 2013
8:30 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry, accompanied by Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr, gestures as he speaks to reporters following their meeting at the State Department in Washington on Monday. (photo credit: AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

US backs British, French plan to arm Syrian rebels

John Kerry says longer civil war rages, likelihood that extremists can get their hands on country’s chemical weapons increases

By AP and Michal Shmulovich

March 17, 2013
5:37 pm

Iranian nuclear facility (photo credit: CC-BY nanking2010/Wikipedia)

Iran to try 18 for nuclear scientist deaths

Tehran has accused Israel, US and Britain of being behind the alleged assassinations of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Britain

Anti-Thatcher party hits London’s Trafalgar Square

Festivities indicate depth of hatred some Britons still feel for their recently deceased former leader

North Korea, Syria to dominate G8 foreign ministers summit

Syrian opposition to meet ministers on sidelines of London talks; US Senators look to China to engage Pyongyang over its recent behavior

US lawmakers push for new sanctions on Iran

Bill could target regime officials with travel bans and seizure of assets

An admirer of Israel who backed Peres over Shamir, diplomacy over settlements

Margaret Thatcher’s insistence that Israel ‘safeguard the rights of Arabs in the occupied territories’ prefigured Obama’s very similar comments here last month

Thatcher, the friend who pushed Israel to make peace

Baroness was also said to have had a rocky relationship with PM Menachem Begin and objected to Israel’s bombing Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor

Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

Netanyahu calls Britain’s first female premier a ‘woman of greatness’ and a ‘staunch friend of Israel and the Jewish people’

Ex-British PM Margaret Thatcher dies at 87

From the web Conservative who led country from 1979 to 1990 suffers fatal stroke, BBC reports

UK to hold on to nukes to counter threats, PM says

David Cameron warns against giving up deterrent in light of developments in North Korea

‘Up to 600 Europeans among ranks of Syrian rebels’

UK study finds volunteers from 14 EU countries have joined fight against Assad, warns that such fighters have gone on to feature in European-based terror plots

Poll: 45 percent of Britons favor banning ritual slaughter

38% of respondents say they also support ban on non-medical circumcision

Britons in Gaza convoy kidnapped and sexually assaulted in Libya

From the web Three women in aid convoy to Palestinians nabbed in Benghazi, Guardian reports

Police say Russian tycoon found dead had neck bound

British official says no sign of struggle in Putin critic Boris Berezovsky’s death, but third party involvement can’t be ruled out

EU remains split on shipping arms to Syrian rebels

Ministers divided on whether to start transferring weapons, with most insisting that the move would only make matters worse

US backs British, French plan to arm Syrian rebels

John Kerry says longer civil war rages, likelihood that extremists can get their hands on country’s chemical weapons increases

Iran to try 18 for nuclear scientist deaths

Tehran has accused Israel, US and Britain of being behind the alleged assassinations of at least five nuclear scientists since 2010

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