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July 20, 2010 (Al Jazeera, Laurence Lee) - The UK's Iraq Inquiry has been marked by politicians and former senior British government officials either defending positions or, perhaps, massaging history to fit their purpose.

July 16th (BBC News) - A US Congressional committee has agreed measures that would ban BP from new offshore drilling for seven years.

June 10th (BBC News) - Europe's debt crisis has created "hurdles" on the path to economic growth, the World Bank has warned.

The sovereign debt crisis in Europe, and soon America, will exert tremendous pressure on national defense budgets, resulting in a re-alignment of global military power from West to East.

May 12th (BBC News) - New UK Prime Minister David Cameron has said the UK's first coalition in decades could mark a "historic and seismic shift" in British politics.

April 22nd (National Post) - New public opinion polls show British politics has been transformed overnight by last week's historic televised leadership debate.

Mar. 24th (Al Jazeera) - Alistair Darling, Britain's finance minister, is presenting the government's annual budget amid the country's worst economic crisis in decades.

Mar. 23rd (BBC News) - The UK is to expel an Israeli diplomat over 12 forged British passports used in the murder of Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.

Although the dust hasn’t even settled from last month’s Euro financial crisis in the PIGS countries, another sovereign wealth shock may be just around the corner.

Mar. 3rd (Merco Press) - Defense spending on protecting the Falkland Islands has plunged by 50% cent in just six years, it was claimed by a report in London’s Daily Mail.