LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has put extra soldiers on standby to provide security for the London Olympics following concerns the private contractor G4S would not train enough guards in time for this month’s Games.

Some 23,700 security guards will protect the Olympic venues as part of Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation, and 13,500 military personnel have already been earmarked to contribute to this.

LONDON (Reuters) – The British government has put extra soldiers on standby to provide security for the London Olympics following concerns the private contractor G4S would not train enough guards in time for this month’s Games.

Some 23,700 security guards will protect the Olympic venues as part of Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation, and 13,500 military personnel have already been earmarked to contribute to this.

LONDON, July 11 (Reuters) – The British government has put
extra soldiers on standby to provide security for the London
Olympics following concerns the private contractor G4S would not
train enough guards in time for this month’s Games.

Some 23,700 security guards will protect the Olympic venues
as part of Britain’s biggest peacetime security operation, and
13,500 military personnel have already been earmarked to
contribute to this.

LONDON (Reuters) – London murder detectives are investigating the death of the American wife of an heir to the Tetra Pak drinks carton fortune and have arrested a man reported to be her husband.

Eva Rausing, 48, daughter of U.S. businessman Tom Kemeny, led a gilded life marred by drug addiction and had a host of connections with royal patrons of anti-drug charities to which she and her husband, Hans Kristian Rausing, 49, devoted millions from the fortune his Swedish grandfather made from packaging.

LONDON (Reuters) – The American wife of an heir to the Tetra Pak drinks carton fortune has been found dead in London, police said on Tuesday, and a man who may be Eva Rausing’s husband was arrested in connection with her death and on suspicion of drugs possession.

Police described the arrested man only as being 49 years old, the same age as Hans Kristian Rausing, the London-based philanthropist son of Swedish packaging billionaire Hans Rausing, one of the world’s richest men.

LONDON (Reuters) – Seven men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences in Britain after weapons were found in a vehicle stopped on a motorway, police said on Friday, as security forces are on high alert ahead of the London Olympics.

The vehicle was pulled over in a routine stop on the M1 motorway in South Yorkshire, northern England, on Saturday and impounded on suspicion of the driver having no insurance.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron warned Argentina on Thursday that London stood “ready and willing” to defend the Falkland Islands, 30 years after Britain recaptured the South Atlantic archipelago whose sovereignty remains a hotly contested issue.

In a speech to commemorate the 1982 British victory over Argentina, Cameron accused Argentina’s government of “aggression” and said there would be “absolutely no negotiation” over sovereignty of the tiny islands, about 300 miles off the Argentine coast.

LONDON (Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron warned Argentina on Thursday that London stood “ready and willing” to defend the Falkland Islands, 30 years after Britain recaptured the South Atlantic archipelago whose sovereignty remains a hotly-contested issue.

In a speech to commemorate the 1982 British victory over Argentina, Cameron accused the Argentinean government of “aggression” and said there would be “absolutely no negotiation” over sovereignty of the tiny islands, about 300 miles off the Argentine coast.

LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange could be extradited to Sweden in two weeks’ time to face questioning over alleged sex crimes after Britain’s top court said on Thursday it had rejected a legal bid to reconsider his case.

The decision ended the self-styled anti-secrecy campaigner’s 18-month legal battle against extradition in the British courts, and now only a possible appeal to a European Court stands in the way of his transfer.

LONDON (Reuters) – Rebekah Brooks, a trusted confidante of Rupert Murdoch and friend to a succession of prime ministers, appears in a London court on Wednesday accused of hindering a police investigation into phone hacking and corruption by staff at his British tabloids.

Huge media interest is guaranteed for the first appearance in the dock of the 44-year-old, a former editor of two of Britain’s top-selling newspapers who counts the upper echelons of the British establishment and senior politicians in her network of friends.