<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>British Embassy staff to be tried, Iranian cleric says : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/"/><tagline>British Embassy staff to be tried, Iranian cleric says : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>politics.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2009, politics.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2009-11-26T14:48:43+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[British Embassy staff to be tried, Iranian cleric says]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/126642/1/" /><id>126642</id><summary><![CDATA[British Embassy staff to be tried, Iranian cleric says]]></summary><issued>2009-07-04T00:53:43+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-04T00:53:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A powerful cleric said Friday that Iran will put British Embassy staffers on trial for fomenting post-election turmoil, a step that would likely increase Iran's isolation and alienate Western nations that have been trying to keep options open with Tehran despite its crackdown on protesters. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/l/126052/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Update to 2many's post</a>]]></content></entry><hr size='1' class='line' noshade/><div style='padding-top:20px;height:300px;margin-right:10px;float:left;'><script type="text/javascript"><!--
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</script></div><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran arrests British embassy staff ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/126052/1/" /><id>126052</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran arrests British embassy staff ]]></summary><issued>2009-06-28T10:02:19+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-28T10:02:19+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Eight British embassy employees in Tehran have been arrested in a sharp escalation of the diplomatic row between Iran and the UK.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British man on trial for 'killing and EATING his girlfriend']]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/41181/1/" /><id>41181</id><summary><![CDATA[British man on trial for 'killing and EATING his girlfriend']]></summary><issued>2007-11-09T10:11:43+01:00</issued><modified>2007-11-09T10:11:43+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A British killer who claimed to have chopped up and eaten his girlfriend is facing 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to her manslaughter. Paul Durant, 47, told a Spanish court he battered mother-of-two Karen Durrell, 41, to death with a mallet at her home on the Costa Blanca.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British Airways asks staff to work for free]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/123322/1/" /><id>123322</id><summary><![CDATA[British Airways asks staff to work for free]]></summary><issued>2009-06-16T13:47:39+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-16T13:47:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British Airways has asked its 40,000 staff to work without pay for up to a month as the ailing airline seeks to cut costs. They lost &#163;401 million in 2008 due in part to higher fuel costs, fewer high-dollar paying passengers and labor cost far above their competitors.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Mr. Rude is French and Flatulent for British TV]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/entertainment/l/50825/1/" /><id>50825</id><summary><![CDATA[Mr. Rude is French and Flatulent for British TV]]></summary><issued>2008-02-16T05:20:40+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-16T05:20:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Zut alors! The popular British cartoon and television series &quot;Mr. Men&quot; has come up with a malodorous Mr. Rude who speaks with a bad French accent. &quot;Pardon me,&quot; says Mr. Rude in comedy Franglais as he breaks wind when his finger is pulled on a game played on the television show's website <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.mrmen.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">www.mrmen.com</a>.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran was a democracy till Britain and the US over threw the goverment]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/92131/1/" /><id>92131</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran was a democracy till Britain and the US over threw the goverment]]></summary><issued>2009-01-31T23:22:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-31T23:22:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In 1951 Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh was elected prime minister of Iran. He became enormously popular in Iran after he nationalized Iran's oil reserves. Unfortunately thi$ up$et Britain who got Ei$enhower to work with them to pull off a <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">coup</a>. History can teach us. Are we ready and willing to learn?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Serial Killers freed by Iranian court on the grounds that victim's activities were &quot;un-Islamic&quot;]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/16510/1/" /><id>16510</id><summary><![CDATA[Serial Killers freed by Iranian court on the grounds that victim's activities were &quot;un-Islamic&quot;]]></summary><issued>2007-04-15T17:25:36+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-15T17:25:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities. The victims all died gruesome deaths that were &quot;sanctioned&quot; by a local cleric.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British Manners Proved Fatal on Titanic]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/world/l/91724/1/" /><id>91724</id><summary><![CDATA[British Manners Proved Fatal on Titanic]]></summary><issued>2009-01-29T20:42:14+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-29T20:42:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British Passengers on the Titanic were much more likely to die than Americans who seem to have been happier to push their way to safety.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Busty British tourist barred from casino because of her 'offensive' breasts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/36792/1/" /><id>36792</id><summary><![CDATA[Busty British tourist barred from casino because of her 'offensive' breasts]]></summary><issued>2007-09-26T11:33:22+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-26T11:33:22+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A British tourist has been barred from a casino in New Zealand for upsetting fellow punters with her 'offensive' breasts. Thirty-three year old Helen Simpson from Nottingham, was wearing a low-cut black evening dress when a woman staff member at the Christchurch Casino told her to cover up or leave.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Abu Hamza says Australians are boozers hooked on gambling and prostitution]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/90620/1/" /><id>90620</id><summary><![CDATA[Islamic cleric Abu Hamza says Australians are boozers hooked on gambling and prostitution]]></summary><issued>2009-01-22T20:16:55+01:00</issued><modified>2009-01-22T20:16:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Outspoken Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has branded Australians as boozers who are hooked on gambling and prostitution.<br/><br/>In another sermon broadcast over the internet, the Melbourne cleric urged followers to spread the word of Islam to save Australians.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British scientists on course to become the first to produce synthetic human blood]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/science/l/101624/1/" /><id>101624</id><summary><![CDATA[British scientists on course to become the first to produce synthetic human blood]]></summary><issued>2009-03-23T22:45:48+01:00</issued><modified>2009-03-23T22:45:48+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British scientists are on course to become the first to create synthetic human blood from embryonic stem cells, it emerged today.<br/><br/>The ground-breaking project could provide an unlimited supply of blood for emergency transfusions free of the risk of infection.<br/><br/>Because stem cells multiply indefinitely, it would be possible to make enormous quantities, researchers said.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/world/l/60871/1/" /><id>60871</id><summary><![CDATA[British planners feared tea shortage after nuclear attack]]></summary><issued>2008-05-06T23:45:10+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-06T23:45:10+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Never mind the radiation: British contingency planners are worried there would be a dramatic shortage of tea in the aftermath of a nuclear attack, recently declassified documents showed.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran to release British sailors]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/15114/1/" /><id>15114</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran to release British sailors]]></summary><issued>2007-04-04T10:56:36+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-04T10:56:36+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The 15 British sailors and marines detained in Iran for nearly a fortnight have been formally pardoned and will be released immediately, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said today.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Iran: Captured UK soldier calls for troops out of Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/14556/1/" /><id>14556</id><summary><![CDATA[Iran: Captured UK soldier calls for troops out of Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-03-29T22:14:49+01:00</issued><modified>2007-03-29T22:14:49+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Iran released Thursday what it says is a second letter from captured British sailor Faye Turney in which she criticizes British policy in Iraq.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Diplomats decry being sent against will to Iraq]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/40211/1/" /><id>40211</id><summary><![CDATA[Diplomats decry being sent against will to Iraq]]></summary><issued>2007-10-31T22:18:35+01:00</issued><modified>2007-10-31T22:18:35+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;You know that at any other (country) in the world, the embassy would be closed at this point,&quot; Crotty said to loud and sustained applause from the about 300 diplomats who attended the meeting in a large State Department auditorium.<br/><br/>**This is one of the most innocuous statements in the article, which is fascinating in it's presentation of both sides. <br/>Update to my previous post <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://www.plime.com/politics/l/39748/1/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">here.</a>]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/125700/1/" /><id>125700</id><summary><![CDATA[Why I, as a British Muslim woman, want the burkha banned from our streets]]></summary><issued>2009-06-24T03:53:39+01:00</issued><modified>2009-06-24T03:53:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Shockingly, the d**kensian bone disease rickets has reemerged in the British Muslim community because women are not getting enough vital vitamin D from sunlight because they are being consigned to life under a shroud.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[That's what I call a staycation! Deerstalker hats, girls in bloomers - the golden age of the British beach holiday]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/plime-com/l/130102/1/" /><id>130102</id><summary><![CDATA[That's what I call a staycation! Deerstalker hats, girls in bloomers - the golden age of the British beach holiday]]></summary><issued>2009-08-06T22:46:21+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-06T22:46:21+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Donkey rides along the shore. Jam sandwiches gritty with sand. Now, that's a truly Great British Summer.<br/><br/>These postcard-perfect photographs, captured by pioneering photography firm Francis Frith between 1890 and 1924, show how our great-grandparents made the most of their time in the sun.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British Secret Agent Chief's Wife Outs Him As Speedo-Wearing Nazi Homie On Facebook]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/world/l/126897/1/" /><id>126897</id><summary><![CDATA[British Secret Agent Chief's Wife Outs Him As Speedo-Wearing Nazi Homie On Facebook]]></summary><issued>2009-07-06T19:37:58+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-06T19:37:58+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[British secret agents are supposed to be exponentially smoother than their American counterparts. We get Ethan Hunt, they get James Bond. Except, not, because the chief of MI-6's wife had her Facebook profile set to public. Very public.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Questions raised over bloody raid to free British journalist in Afghanistan]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/politics/l/132774/1/" /><id>132774</id><summary><![CDATA[Questions raised over bloody raid to free British journalist in Afghanistan]]></summary><issued>2009-09-10T17:52:30+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-10T17:52:30+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A British reporter, investigating claims of civilian deaths from an American bombing ignored warnings from locals and got himself and his translator kidnapped. A force of British soldiers were able to free him but at the the cost of one of their own and of the translator.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[British Airways lost my 83 year old father]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/weird/l/30682/1/" /><id>30682</id><summary><![CDATA[British Airways lost my 83 year old father]]></summary><issued>2007-08-08T15:35:20+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-08T15:35:20+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Not content with losing thousands of bags, British Airways has gone one better by managing to lose an elderly passenger.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[OMG The British R Coming, They R Watching You]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://politics.plime.com/weird/l/93292/1/" /><id>93292</id><summary><![CDATA[OMG The British R Coming, They R Watching You]]></summary><issued>2009-02-07T10:39:40+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-07T10:39:40+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In yet another road sign hack, Lubbock, Texas drivers were alerted to a possible British invasion. The Beatles, perhaps?]]></content></entry></feed>