UK set to cut back on embassies
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Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says he is closing nine overseas embassies and high commissions to help save money.
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The government is set to announce plans to ease the rules on the opening of new pharmacies.
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Britain's Prince Charles is likely to cut down on his use of helicopters and aeroplanes as his household conducts a review to make him a greener traveller.
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MoD moves to limit diplomatic fallout from attack on US policy in Iraq by former head of British army.
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TONY Blair was yesterday forced to tone down his plans for an international Middle East peace summit in London, after Israel and the United States warned him not to &quot;interfere&quot;.
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Ministers are expected to announce the length of time tourists can stay in the UK will be cut to three months.
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Relations between Britain and Russia take sharp dive over Litvinenko case.
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The Czech Republic will probably close about twenty of its embassies and consulates because of cutsin the Foreign Ministry's budget next year, the ministry's spokesman Vit Kolar said on Friday.
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Britain will oppose European commission moves to impose permanent curbs on Turkish workers migrating to other areas of the EU as a key part of any agreement to admit the country to the union, a foreign office minister said yesterday.
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Relatives of foreigners who outstay their visas could face imprisonment, under plans put to the Tories.
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The UK government is said to be considering limits for Bulgarians and Romanians seeking jobs in the UK.
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Britain's envoy to Russia warned Saturday that plans to shut British cultural offices could hamper EU-Russia ties, but said London would not block talks on a new bilateral pact because of the dispute.
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The move was a response to Britainâs expulsion of the same number of Russian diplomats earlier this week.
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Britons have been advised by the Foreign Office to leave three states in Nigeria.
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The government will temporarily relax rules requiring passports for U.S. citizens traveling by air to Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean because of a huge processing backlog, officials said on Friday.
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Diplomatic posts at the State Department and U.S. embassies worldwide will be cut by 10 percent next year because of heavy staffing demands in Iraq and Afghanistan, Director General Harry Thomas informed the foreign service yesterday.
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Reacting to unspecified threats, Britain on Monday closed its embassy in Baku, Azerbaijan, and the United States reduced its embassy's operations in the central Asian nation.