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• Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP)
• Govt. vows action with US on Yemen, Somali extremism (AFP)
• Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters)
• Reading force Liverpool into FA Cup replay (AFP)
• Venter unleashes ref rant as Tigers tame Sarries (AFP)
• Thousands march in Spain for ETA prisoners' rights (AFP)
• Islamic march plan sparks row in military town (AFP)
• British-flagged ship hijacked off Somalia (AFP)
• White out of Six Nations after breaking leg (AFP)
• Picasso, Rousseau works stolen in France (AP)
• Report: UK drinking culture strains health system (AP)
• Austrian official: Kidnapped girl tried to escape (AP)
• Number of illegal migrants arriving in Spain falls (AP)
• UK government says British-flagged ship hijacked (AP)
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Britain, US to fund Yemen anti-terror police unit (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 06:05 PM PST AP - The British government said Sunday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Barack Obama had agreed to fund a counterterrorism police unit in Yemen to tackle the rising terrorist threat from the country.

Govt. vows action with US on Yemen, Somali extremism (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 04:06 PM PST AFP - Britain and the US will step up action to fight extremism in Yemen and Somalia, Downing Street said Sunday, amid investigations into an alleged Al-Qaeda plot to bomb a US airliner.

Bomb suspect "reached out" to UK militants: report (Reuters) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:59 PM PST Reuters - British security services knew three years ago that the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up a U.S.-bound plane had "multiple communications" with Islamic extremists in Britain, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 23, charged with trying to blow up Northwest flight 253 from Amsterdam as it approached Detroit on Christmas Day, studied in London between 2005 and 2008.

Reading force Liverpool into FA Cup replay (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:01 PM PST AFP - Liverpool's season suffered another stutter as they were held to a 1-1 draw at Championship strugglers Reading in the third round of the FA Cup on Saturday.

Venter unleashes ref rant as Tigers tame Sarries (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 12:43 PM PST AFP - Saracens coach Brendan Venter seems set to face disciplinary action after criticising the performance of referee David Rose following the English Premiership leaders' 22-15 loss away to Leicester.

Thousands march in Spain for ETA prisoners' rights (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:59 AM PST AFP - Thousands of people marched through the northern Spanish city of Bilbao on Saturday to demand more rights for jailed members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA.

Islamic march plan sparks row in military town (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:40 AM PST AFP - A controversial Islamic group sparked a row in Britain Saturday after announcing plans for a march to commemorate civilians killed in the Afghanistan war through a town known for honouring dead soldiers.

British-flagged ship hijacked off Somalia (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 11:34 AM PST AFP - Pirates have hijacked a British-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Somalia, the EU's anti-piracy naval force said on Saturday, in the second such attack this year.

White out of Six Nations after breaking leg (AFP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:29 AM PST AFP - Veteran Scottish backrow forward Jason White is out of this year's Six Nations after suffering a double fracture of his left leg.

Picasso, Rousseau works stolen in France (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:22 AM PST AP - About 30 works of art, including paintings by Pablo Picasso and Henri Rousseau, have been stolen from the home of a private collector in southern France, police said Saturday.

Report: UK drinking culture strains health system (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:16 AM PST AP - A report is warning that Britain's drinking culture is costing the country's publicly funded health service 2.7 billion pounds ($4.4 billion) a year.

Austrian official: Kidnapped girl tried to escape (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 10:10 AM PST AP - An official says a young Austrian woman kidnapped for 8 1/2 years tried to escape three times before she finally got away.

Number of illegal migrants arriving in Spain falls (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 09:03 AM PST AP - The number of illegal immigrants risking their lives in rickety boats to reach Spain's Canary Islands from northwest Africa has descended to levels last seen a decade ago, officials said Saturday.

UK government says British-flagged ship hijacked (AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 03:30 AM PST AP - British officials say the British-flagged cargo ship Asian Glory has been hijacked off the coast of Somalia.

(AP) Posted: 02 Jan 2010 02:52 AM PST AP - British government says British-flagged ship Asian Glory hijacked off coast of Somalia.

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