British government reduces threat level
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The British government said Wednesday that it had reduced the level of the terrorist threat facing the country from "critical" to "severe."
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Carelessness by British security agents is proving embarrassing for the government.
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Britain is to scale back its 8,000-strong military presence in southern Iraq in October, despite fears of worsening security in the run-up to elections, the Observer newspaper reports.
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Security agents' apparently careless habits are getting embarrassing for the British government.
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The Australian government said it had started reducing troop numbers in East Timor as security in the tiny nation was steadily improving.
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The US government will lower the heightened terror threat level for financial institutions in New York City, New Jersey and Washington, administration officials said Wednesday.
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The Irish Republican Army has changed fundamentally from the terror organization that fought British rule in Northern Ireland for decades and now poses no security threat, a British minister said on Wednesday.
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British and US authorities have eased curbs for airline passengers as Britain lowered its terror alert, deeming the threat of attack to be no longer imminent though still &quot;highly likely.&quot;
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Prime Minister Tony Blair's government was accused Wednesday of playing politics with fear and using the threat of terrorism to boost its chances of re-election.
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LONDON, July 4 -- With eight suspects in last weekend's attempted car-bomb attacks in custody, all of them foreign doctors or other medical professionals, Britain reduced its terrorism threat level from critical to severe Wednesday and Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced more rigorous background...
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The threat was lowered one notch from critical â its highest level â after authorities concluded that âno intelligenceâ suggested any imminent attack.
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Police checkpoints that have surrounded the Capitol since last August were gone Thursday following a postelection decision by authorities to lower the threat level.
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Citing &quot;improvement&quot; in the security situation in Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Thursday announced a cut in the number of troops deployed in the sensitive border state.
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Threat to imperial measures to be lifted after European commission climbdown.
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Britain said Friday it was &quot;getting to the bottom&quot; of a militant cell behind last week&#39;s failed attacks, amid tight security ahead of the anniversary of London&#39;s July 2005 suicide bombings.
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The government lowered Wednesday its threat level from &quot;critical&quot; to &quot;severe&quot;, where it had been before the weekend&#39;s failed car bombings in London and Glasgow.
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Aircraft will be banned from flying low over a series of key London landmarks such as the Houses of Parliament under new anti-terror rules announced.