Foreign politics shut UK firms out
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UK FIRMS lose out on lucrative European contracts because foreign governments discriminate against them, according to a newly-published Treasury report.
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By request from the United States, British authorities shut down 20 independent media Web sites without explanation, The Guardian reported Monday.
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When British regulators shut down Chiron Corporationâs (an Emeryville, Calif. biotechnology company) Liverpool, England factory on Tuesday, Oct. 5, citing concerns about bacterial contamination, they cut
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One of Britain's biggest property funds shuts its doors to withdrawals after panic selling
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Far-reaching plans to close about one-fifth of the North Sea to trawlermen were abruptly dropped last night, as the European Commission caved in to pressure from a group of countries, including Britain.
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The assets of three registered NI companies and others in England and Spain worth more than Â£300,000 are frozen.
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The British Prime Minister announces the withdrawal of some British troops from Iraq; Denmark follows suit
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HSBC closes accounts held by the British National Party, three months after Barclays froze the party's accounts.
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Florida public health departments relied on a British company to supply all flu shots this year, and now the British government has shut down that company.
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Morgan Stanley said it will close its business in Britain that issues home loans and significantly curb its mortgage business in the United States.
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A British cultural organization at the center of a dispute between the Kremlin and Britain closed its office in St. Petersburg under pressure from Russiaâs intelligence service.
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THE International Monetary Fund (IMF) is closing down its Harare representative office at the end of this month, virtually terminating threadbare relations with the crisis-racked southern African nation.
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Britain is to close 19 of its diplomatic missions abroad, including nine embassies and high commissions, by the end of 2006 in a cost-cutting drive, the Foreign Office said.
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Business & money: Â·  European parliament blocks EC initiative Â·  Businesses and unions unite in denunciation
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An investigation into a controversial arms deal between Britain and Saudi Arabia was reportedly dropped because of fears it could wreck Prime Minister Tony Blair's efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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Britain enters a new political era on Wednesday when Tony Blair steps down after a decade and Gordon Brown takes over as prime minister knowing he must heal wounds in the country caused by the Iraq war.
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The British government's cultural arm, caught in a political row between London and Moscow, said on Thursday its Russian regional offices had halted work because local staff were being interviewed by Russia's security service.