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An agreement between the United States and the United Kingdom will  be signed, in order for the two allies to shrink their military capability and retreat from the armed intervention's they have actively supported in recent decades.

Philip Hammond, the UK’s new defence secretary ...

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Abbot Ephraim the head of the world famous Vatopaidi Monastery on Mount Athos Greece, is still in an Athens jail, despite floods of protests from all over the world, with the Russian Government and Russian Orthodox Church leading the campaign to free the holy man.  ...

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Japan has welcomed 2012 with a 7.0 earthquake off the coast of south-eastern Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in Tokyo and putting Japan on a state of alert, when Japan is still recovering from last year’s "mega-disaster".

To date the quake has not caused ...

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The Iranian Government has threatened to block the "oil artery of the world" in an escalation of tensions in an already tense Persian Gulf; in response the US military have declared such a move would be tantamount to a Casus beli.

In a report ...

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One of the rising economies of the so called BRIC nations India has been dealt a blow by one of its billionaires who has today said that "Every large investment, there was no transparency" in India.

Ajay Piramal who is thought to be sitting ...

Greek justice facing scrutiny from Brussels over handling of case

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The Greek criminal justice system is today in the dock having used extraordinary methods to "capture" Abbot Ephraim the leader of the largest monastery on Mount Athos in Greece, and one of Christian Orthodoxy's ...

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The Greek courts have ruled that a respected Orthodox Christian monk will be imprisoned over Christmas over a land dispute in northern Greece.  Abbot Ephraim who leads the largest monastic order in the Orthodox Christian world, has strong links ...

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A British government minister has said Costa Rican police is responsible for preventing police co-operation in the search for missing journalist Michael Dixon.

"Any request from the Costa Rican authoritles for assistance would need to come from the OlJ [the Organismo de Investigacion Judicial, ...

By John Kaponi

The Falklands are British, despite the protestations by the Argentines. The majority of the population of the islands located in the South Atlantic Ocean and just 250 nautical miles from the coast of mainland South America remain sovereign British territory.

Its therefore appalling and ...