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. | One in 10 people under 25 are Muslim, while Christianity is in decline, the 2011 UK census reveals. An explosion in the Muslim population and an aging Christian demographic could mean Islam will be the dominant religion in the UK in 10 years.
A new analysis of the 2011 census by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the number of Christians was falling 50 per cent faster than had previously |
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. | Russia and Britain agreed on Friday to work towards a transitional government in Syria, despite acknowledging differences in their approach to the Middle Eastern country’s civil war.
British Prime Minister David Cameron said after talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the Black Sea resort of Sochi that they had agreed “that as permanent members |
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. | Scores of Palestinian students forced the British consul general to make a hasty departure from a West Bank university campus on Tuesday, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said.
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. | BURGER KING is dumping millions of beefburgers just DAYS after insisting it was NOT affected by the “Horsegate” scandal.
Restaurant managers across the UK have been told to box up Whoppers, Angus burgers and patties in a safe area, and mark them with an “X” |
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. | David Cameron, the British prime minister, has promised to give the Brish people a straight referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave, provided he wins an election in 2015.
“It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time for us to settle this question about Britain and Europe,” the British prime minister said on Wednesday. |
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. | More than 1,000 demonstrators marched on Belfast’s city hall on Saturday afternoon amid a heavy police presence.
While the rally passed largely without |
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. | The renewed demand by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner for the Falklands to be handed back to Argentina elicited a defiant response from the UK and Falkland governments , with David Cameron vowing to do everything he could to protect the islanders’ desire to remain British.
The prime minister rejected Fernández’s call to restore the Falklands’s “territorial integrity” by returning |
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. | “There is some evidence that the Singapore-related top secret colonial administration files were destroyed as part of a review of FCO post files in the 1990s.”
According to the report, the FCO is continuing the search for the files and any evidence relating to their possible destruction. |
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. | Britain needs more details from the fledgling Syria opposition coalition before it can formally recognize the group, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Friday ahead of talks with Syrian opposition officials.
The coalition was formed in Doha on Sunday |
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. | Lord noted that the activity of OSCE Minsk Group mediating in the settlement of the conflict was insufficient. He underlined that the US, France and Russia, co-chairing the Group, were the countries where Armenian Diaspora was functioning, asked whether the UK government was aware of that reality. Lord Laird said the UK might play a |
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. | Mr Cameron said the international community should consider anything “to get that man out of the country”.
He also told al |
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. | Thousands had travelled from as far afield as Glasgow to take part in the demonstration, ahead of a planned million-strong march in Hyde Park in coming weeks.
Anger over ‘The Innocence of Muslims’, an American-produced film which insults the Prophet Mohammad and demeans Muslims, according to protesters, remains available to watch |
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. | Britain is to co-operate closely with Canada to pool and share embassy facilities abroad, in a move that has raised fresh questions about the UK’s commitment to furthering diplomatic links with the EU.
William Hague, UK foreign secretary, signed an agreement in Ottawa on Monday that will see Britain and Canada co-operate when sharing facilities and providing consular services in third |
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. | “Despite it, neither the international community nor the Western press condemned these terrorists release.”
Ken Maginnis noted that Armenians continue to threaten Turkish and Azerbaijani diplomats: “The tension through the contact line have increased recently. I called the sides to calm |
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. | Archbishop Desmond Tutu called Sunday for British ex-leader Tony Blair and former US president George W Bush to face trial in The Hague for their role in the Iraq war.
The South African peace icon, writing in The Observer |
