UK to close nine embassies
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Nine overseas UK embassies and high commissions are to close to help save money, says the foreign secretary.
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Nine mainly ex-East bloc countries on Friday tore down their borders to join a European zone allowing 400 million people to travel from Estonia in the east to Portugal in the west without showing a passport.
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The government will Tuesday unveil plans to cut the time non-EU tourists can remain in Britain -- from six months to three -- as part of a tougher visa regime aimed at curbing illegal immigration.
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Â· Witnesses say authorities should have closed airport Â· Up to 10 Britons thought to be among 89 dead
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Britain is to reshape its overseas diplomatic network, closing or turning over to local staff several dozen posts, in a cost-cutting drive to pay for embassies in Iraq and Afghanistan and to fight terrorism.
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Heavy snowfall shut five British airports Thursday and forced the cancellation of some train service in England and Wales.Comment
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British embassy in Yemen is closed amid security fears
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The foreign secretary, David Miliband, also said Britain would tighten visa requirements for Russian officials and businesspeople.
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The United States closed its embassy in Skopje, Macedonia on Monday to all but essential business because of a potential security threat, the State Department said.
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France tightened security around its embassies Friday after a bomb outside the Indonesian Embassy slightly injured nine people in a pre-dawn explosion that shattered neighborhood windows and puzzled police.
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Russia is planning &quot;appropriate&quot; measures in response to Britain&#39;s announcement of the expulsion of four Russian diplomats from London, a foreign ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
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Reports claim 31 post offices across south Wales could close under proposals due to be announced.
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The Foreign Office today advised all British nationals to leave the Niger Delta in Nigeria following a series of kidnappings of foreign oil workers.
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LONDON/MOSCOW  - Russian moves to shut down offices of Britain's overseas cultural organization are "reprehensible, not worthy of a great country", British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said on Thursday.
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Faced with growing losses, the Royal Mail has told the government officials that half of the country's 14,500 post offices should be closed.
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Russia's plan to close regional offices  of the British government's cultural arm is totally  unacceptable, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Thursday,  demanding Moscow reverse its decision.
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EU, Slovenian and Hungarian dignitaries took part in a last round of celebrations Saturday to welcome nine mainly eastern European countries into the passport-free Schengen zone.