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Syria sanctions declared as violent crackdown continues
EU to impose asset freezes and travel restrictions on Syrian officials involved in operation which has killed 500 peopleThe EU agreed on Friday to impose sanctions on Syria next week to step up...
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Are Doctor Who's latest aliens The Silence just too terrifying for words?
Writer and producer Steven Moffat defends Doctor's new foes from accusation they are too scary for childrenDoctor Who baddies have sent generations of children cowering behind the sofa in excited...
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Russia's 'Barack Obama' quits Vladimir Putin's ruling party
First black man to stand for office in Russia leaves pro-Kremlin party claiming its policies are acting as a brake on democracyHis business as a watermelon farmer and his promise to "toil like a negro"...
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7/7: No more locked doors | Peter Taylor
One institutional failure involving MI5 and special branch would have merited closer examination by the 7/7 inquiryIn her forensically detailed coroner's report Lady Justice Hallett concludes that...
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Kingfisher swoops on 31 of struggling Focus DIY's stores
B&Q owner buys Focus stores for £23m to expand its chainKingfisher, the owner of B&Q, has bought 31 stores from stricken chain Focus DIY for £23m after the company went into...
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Four men in court after police smash global paedophile ring
Lincolnshire police led operation to crack UK-based network distributing child pornography to 46 countriesMore than 130 children in the UK have been rescued from immediate danger after police smashed...
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Prada's attempts to storm Chinese market hit by feminist protesters
Women urge Hong Kong stock market to veto Prada's flotation bid over discrimination allegationsThe fashion designer and one-time women's rights campaigner Miuccia Prada told reporters last year that...
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Osama bin Laden: family guy with three wives, nine children and a cow to keep
Behind the walls of the compound, Bin Laden was a father and husband, as well as leader of a global terrorist networkIt would make the ultimate reality TV programme: Osama bin Laden was confined to the...
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Northern Ireland assembly election: Ulster Unionists head for fourth place
Support for power-sharing government boosts Democratic Unionists and Sinn Féin but low turnout mars resultThe Ulster Unionist party (UUP) faces being pushed into fourth place in the Stormont...
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Iranians on hunger strike protest against deportation
Six men say they fled Iran after being beaten, tortured and in one case raped for taking part in anti-regime protestsSix Iranians who have been on hunger strike for 32 days in protest at plans to send...
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Boredom is good for you, study claims
Being bored can motivate people to 'engage in prosocial tasks and encourage more meaningful behaviour'If this weekend is yawning ahead of you, offering nothing but the same old routines and dull...
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Iran's supreme leader tells Ahmadinejad: accept minister or quit
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's ultimatum widens rift between leaders and increases pressure on presidentAn unprecedented power struggle at the heart of the Iranian regime has intensified after it emerged...
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After election battle, bruised Lib Dems look for a new way in coalition
There is no serious move against Nick Clegg's leadership so far – but he is under pressure to make his party stand out againNick Clegg has moved to reassure shattered Liberal Democrats that he could...
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Lib Dem collapse in local elections is good news for David Cameron
Result extraordinarily good for the Conservatives, very bad for the Liberal Democrats and not particularly good for LabourCouncil election results are inevitably seen as a measure of the shifting...
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SlutWalking gets rolling after cop's loose talk about provocative clothing
Lecture to Toronto students ignites protests across Canada and US at culture of blaming rape victims When a police officer from Toronto went on a routine visit to Osgoode Hall Law School to advise the...
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Stunning SNP election victory throws spotlight on Scottish independence
Alex Salmond wins overall majority at Holyrood and promises to hold referendum on break from United KingdomAlex Salmond touched down on the manicured lawns of one of Edinburgh's exclusive hotels in his...
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Elections 2011: Turfed out of town halls, bitter Lib Dems point finger of blame
Lib Dem leadership accused of putting councils in position of having to defend cuts they did not believe inHundreds of Liberal Democrat councillors have been ejected from England's town halls as they...
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7/7 inquest: We still have no real answers, say the victims' relatives
Coroner critical of MI5, but clears them of blame as families of 7/7 bombing victims call for overhaul of security servicesFamilies of the victims of the 7 July attacks have called on the government to...
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Elections 2011: Ed Miliband puts a brave face on mixed results for Labour
SNP triumph in Scotland must end Labour party complacency, warn shadow cabinet membersEd Miliband is to be warned by senior Labour figures that he must work hard to fight a sense of complacency among...
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AV and local elections: don't gloat in public, triumphal Tories told
Conservatives ecstatic behind scenes, but PM goes out of way to congratulate Lib Dems for coalition workDavid Cameron ordered Tory cabinet ministers to avoid signs of triumphalism after the prime...
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