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Name: UK Government

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 13 mins ago - 2 reports

David Cameron

Cameron Urges UK Offshore Centers to Clamp Down on Tax Evaders

LONDON--Prime Minister David Cameron Monday urged the leaders of the U.K.'s offshore financial centers--including Bermuda, the Cayman Islands and Jersey--to "knock down the walls of company secrecy" and take measures to find out who really owns and controls ... [Published Global Finance Magazine - 17 mins ago]

Entities: David Cameron, United Kingdom, Taxes

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 3 reports

UK immigration policy ‘damaging Scottish economy’

THE UK government's immigration policies are "damaging" Scotland's economy, Scotland's external affairs minister Humza Yousaf claimed yesterday.He said Scottish society was united in opposition to the “restrictive” approach to immigration being pursued ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Immigration, United Kingdom, UK Government

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 2 reports

BAE’s investors set to back choice of chairman

Sir Roger Carr is one of the leading candidates, an appointment unlikely to generate opposition from the UK government ... [Published FT.com - Companies UK - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Roger Carr, UK Government, Appointment

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 6 reports

Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan)

It does not augur well for Pakistan

The recent killing of a senior member of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, Zahra Shahid, is despicable and warrants utmost condemnation from all parties. The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) has crossed all boundaries of decency. It is high time the British government ... [Published Arab News - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (Pakistan), Altaf Hussain

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 2 reports

United Nations

UK ratifies UN WC at Rio!

25 June 2012 At the Rio+20 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and the UK government announced that the UK will accede to the UN Watercourses Convention to help ensure that the world's 263 international boundary crossing rivers are protected and ... [Published IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy and Scien ... - 9 hours ago]

Entities: United Nations, United Kingdom, Rio+20, Nick Clegg

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 9 hours ago - 14 reports

Treasury warns on savings protection

A UK Treasury analysis paper will say an independent Scotland could have "significant difficulties" providing protection for savers.The Treasury paper is due to be launched by Scottish Secretary Michael Moore and economic secretary to the Treasury, Sajid ... [Published BBC - 9 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, John Swinney, United Kingdom

First reported 14 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Paul Krugman

Paul Krugman?s right: Austerity kills

Excerpted$ from “I will never forgive them,” wrote 13-year-old Kieran McArdle to the Daily Record, a national newspaper based in Glasgow. “I won’t be able to come to terms with my dad’s death until I get justice for him.” Kieran’s father, 57-year-old ... [Published Salon - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Paul Krugman, David Cameron, Disability, Glasgow

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 13 hours ago - 9 reports

IMRAN Khan has blamed the UK government for a senior politician's murder

Zahra Shahid Hussain, part of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was shot dead by gunmen in Karachi ahead of re-polling in the region.Khan blamed political leader Altaf Hussain, who is in exile in London, for the attack alleging he is "directly ... [Published GG2.net - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Imran Khan, Altaf Hussain, UK Government, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (Pakistan)

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

UK Admits Connections to Pakistan Drone Attacks

The British government has admitted funding surveys in Pakistan on US drone attacks. A parliamentary question revealed the UK’s involvement. Responses from Pakistan’s tribal areas show two thirds of people agree that unmanned bomb planes are ‘never justified’. ... [Published Sunrise Radio - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Drone, Pakistan, United Kingdom

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated 19 hours ago - 3 reports

Independent Scotland open to Cyprus-style bank risks, says Britain

Before a referendum due in September 2014 on whether Scotland should split from the United Kingdom, the British government is analyzing the impact of independence on Scotland, which has a population of about 5 million.A report from the finance ministry ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Scotland, United Kingdom, UK Government

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated 21 hours ago - 4 reports

Litvinenko's widow seeks public inquiry into death

London - Marina Litvinenko, the widow of former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko has called for an inquest into his death to be replaced with a public inquiry. She said it was the only way to find out the truth about her husband's death, BBC News reports. ... [Published Digital Journal - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Marina Litvinenko, Robert Owen, Alexander Litvinenko

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 2 reports

Voters back Cameron on economy

In bad news for the opposition, however, Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron is still more trusted on the economy than Labour leader Ed Miliband, the survey found.In fact, Mr Cameron is more trusted on financial issues and crime than the leaders ... [Published NewsRT.co.uk - May 18 2013]

Entities: David Cameron, The Labour Party (United Kingdom), Ed Miliband, UKIP UK Independence Party

Quotes

"People can challenge that and engage with it. When they do, they will see that the overwhelming argument is we get the best of both worlds by being in the UK - a very strong financial sector and protection when things go wrong."

Scrutinise Treasury paper, Moore urges [Published BBC - 7 mins ago]

"These will need to provide for fully resourced and properly managed centralised registries, that are freely available to law enforcement and tax collectors, and contain full and accurate details on the true ownership and control of every company" Mr. Cameron said

Cameron Urges UK Offshore Centers to Clamp Down on Tax Evaders [Published Global Finance Magazine - 17 mins ago]

"The campaign was set upup to campaign against evictions, to call for writing off of all bedroom tax debt and the abolition of cuts to housing benefit."

Protesters plan 'bedroom tax' rally [Published Glasgow Evening Times - 45 mins ago]

But Rudd warns that business activities should not be at the expense of academic teaching. "We have to put the students at the center of everything. Why would we want to generate more resources? It's because we want to make our campus a more beautiful place, and provide better facilities for our staff and students" Rudd says

Ningbo shows the way [Published CHINAdaily - 2 hours ago]

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Emotion is bound to play a key role in independ... [Published Herald Scotland - 4 hours ago]

Blogs

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Citizens Against Corruption: What Works? Findin... [Published From Poverty to Power by Duncan Green - 2 hours ago] I attended a panel + booklaunch on the theme of ‘ Citizens Against Corruption ’ at the ODI last week. After all the recent agonizing and self-doubt of the results debate (‘really, do we know anything about the impact of our work? How can we be ...
Germans Join Certification Charge [Published Shiptalk - 2 hours ago] As predicted, Germany has become the latest flag state to adopt a national certification process for private maritime security companies seeking to place guards onto vessels flying their flag. From December 1, 2013, the licensing requirement applies ...
Is EVERY Market Rigged? [Published Zero Hedge - 8 hours ago] CNN reports : The European Commission raided the offices of Shell, BP and Norway’s Statoil this week as part of an investigation into suspected attempts to manipulate global oil prices spanning more than a decade. None of the companies have ...
Could RBS stay in an independent Scotland? [Published Robert Peston BBC - 10 hours ago] Scotland, and Edinburgh in particular, has a world class financial services industry, in banking, insurance and fund management. The question posed by today's Scotland Analysis Paper from the Treasury is whether a Scotland that separated from the rest ...
Leading climate scientist: Canada?s tar sands m... [Published Raw Story - 11 hours ago] Like Raw Story on FacebookMajor international oil companies are buying off governments, according to the world’s most prominent climate scientist, Prof James Hansen. During a visit to London, he accused the Canadian government of acting as the industry’s ...

Audio/Video

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UK Police arrest suspected human traffickers [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 14 2013]
Bailed-Out Banks Cause Headache for the U.K. [Published WSJ.com Video - Business - May 14 2013]
Queen's head for sale [Published Reuters Video: Business - May 13 2013]
VIDEO: Abu Qatada 'would return to Jordan' [Published BBC News Video - Politics - May 10 2013]
UK negotiates settlement with Mau Mau victims [Published Al Jazeera - YouTube - May 06 2013]

Press Releases

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Carrenza becomes an Official G-Cloud iii Supplier [Published PR inside - 18 mins ago]
iomart lands on UK public sector G Cloud [Published EON Business - May 07 2013]
iomart lands on UK public sector G Cloud [Published Business Wire Technology News - May 07 2013]
South American Silver Files International Arbit... [Published Marketwire - Breaking News Releases - Apr 30 2013]
Contracting Still the Order of the day as UK Na... [Published PR Newswire: Financial Services - Apr 29 2013]