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The U.K. and Ecuador made no breakthrough today in talks on the impasse over WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as the fugitive anti-secrecy advocate marks one year holed up in the Andean country’s London embassy.
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The worsening situation in Syria has accelerated deliberations inside the Obama administration about the next steps for the U.S. ahead of next week’s Group of Eight Summit with world leaders.
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Top U.S. national security officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, met at the White House today on U.S. policy toward Syria, according to a U.S. official.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague dismissed as “baseless” accusations that British intelligence services tried to circumvent the law by accessing information about U.K. citizens obtained from a U.S. surveillance program.
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U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague offered 19.9 million pounds ($31 million) in compensation to Kenyans who were tortured by British forces during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the 1950s.
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U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague called for national parliaments to be given the power to veto some European Union legislation to improve the democratic accountability of the bloc.
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European Union governments gave the go-ahead for weapons sales to the Syrian opposition, seeking to increase pressure on Bashar al-Assad’s regime after two years of civil war.
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U.K. lawmaker Richard Ottaway who chairs Parliament’s cross-party Foreign Affairs Committee wrote to Foreign Secretary William Hague asking him to clarify whether he agrees with U.S. policy to “do whatever is necessary” to prevent Iran from accessing nuclear weapons.
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Foreign Secretary William Hague said “confusion” on the part of the South African government was at the heart of a dispute over U.K. plans to end 19 million pounds ($30 million) a year of aid to Africa’s largest economy in 2015.
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U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said he will this week announce further direct assistance for Syrian rebels and denounced President Bashar al-Assad as “delusional.”
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