British Army monitored recruits' race to limit non-white numbers: files
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The British Army spent decades secretly noting the race of all soldiers with "Asiatic or Negroid features" for a quota system on non-white recruits, newly-released government files showed.
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Families of British and Commonwealth soldiers who fought in World War I will be able to trace their relatives' war records through a Web site launched Monday.
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The United States wants recruit Britain and other countries to share biometric data on terrorists and criminals, a British newspaper reported Tuesday.
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Mobile phone footage allegedly showing an army recruit being sexually assault is being investigated.
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Britain is "sleepwalking into a surveillance society" because of government plans to introduce ID cards and a population register, the nation's information watchdog was quoted as saying.
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Army whistleblower claims racism, sexism and demotion threats
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Britain is to announce in the coming weeks whether it will extend full citizenship to Gurkha soldiers from Nepal serving in its armed forces, Prime Minister Tony Blair revealed.
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Science & environment: Scientists will this week launch a recruitment campaign aimed at five million members of the British public. Volunteers will be asked to give blood and DNA samples to the UK Biobank, a controversial new national gene database.
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The number of blacks joining the military has plunged by more than one-third since the Afghanistan and Iraq wars began, as other job prospects soar and relatives of potential recruits increasingly discourage them from signing up.
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British foreign policy and in particular the Iraq war has made it easier for Islamist extremists to recruit young British Muslims, according to a report released here Thursday.
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Britain will keep restrictions on the number of Romanian and Bulgarian workers it allows in for at least another year, a minister announced Tuesday.
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Â· Figures of foreign nationals revisedÂ· Private polls worrying ministers
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The UK government is to crack down on private agencies recruiting medics from developing countries.
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Canberra - The defence department is investigating allegations of racism in its ranks after a photograph was taken of soldiers wearing Ku Klux Klan-style hoods as they stood behind dark-skinned colleagues.
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The British army considered setting up a regiment for British Sikhs but dropped the idea because it did not want to segregate them from other soldiers, the Sunday Telegraph reported.
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Unskilled foreigners will find it harder to migrate to Britain under new proposals, which also call for stricter screening of asylum seekers and tighter border controls.
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'Covert admission practices' discriminate against poorer families, schools minister says