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Joe Farman, a British physicist who helped identify the "hole" in the ozone layer over the southern pole, has died, British Antarctic Survey officials said.
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Britain doubted Falklands War, papers say
High-ranking British government members were skeptical of the military defense of the Falkland Islands in 1982, newly released papers indicate.
Pope Francis, acclaimed worldwide as a powerful new champion for the world's poor, risks becoming embroiled in Agentina's increasingly strident rhetoric of a sovereignty claim on British Overseas Territory of the Falkland Islands.
Britain: Respect Falklanders' wishes
The international community is called on to recognize the wishes of Falkland Islanders, British Foreign Secretary William Hague said.
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Falkland Islands' voters went to the polls Sunday to decide a referendum asking whether they want to remain a territory of the United Kingdom.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad