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Why no mention of a ceasefire for Libya, Obama? | Jonathan Steele

The best way to protect desperate Libyan civilians is for Nato to reverse its mistake of taking sidesBeware ministers' claims that a military campaign is making slow but steady progress. It nearly...

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The British government has a duty to Bradley Manning and his family | Ann Clwyd

The Guardian Films investigation asks the questions surrounding Manning's treatment to which we must get answersI heard about Bradley Manning's case through the Guardian's reports of his treatment by...

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Onwards, opera virgins | John Berry

When music and theatre gel, as Terry Gilliam did with ENO, the result can be unmissable artWhen a critic describes a production as getting "a riotous reception", as one recently wrote of ENO's...

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The Saturday interview: Sarah Lucas

Sarah Lucas was the wildest of the Young British artists, partying hard and making art that was provocative and at times genuinely shocking. Then as Emin and Hirst went stratospheric, she slipped off...

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Jeff Conaway dies aged 60

Actor who made his name playing bad boy Kenickie in Grease was taken off life support after remaining in coma for two weeksJeff Conaway, the actor who made his name playing bad boy Kenickie in the...

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Sudoku 1,885 hard

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 to 9.For a helping hand call our solutions line on 09068 338 228. Calls cost 60p per minute at all times. Service...

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Sudoku killer 242

Normal Sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner. No number can be repeated within each shape formed by dotted lines.For a...

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Our pick of the week: The story, the stat, the quote, the tweet

Oliver Laughland on the people and stories in the media spotlight in the last seven daysThe storyRandy monksAlthough it may chime like a debauched concoction of Peter Stringfellow's idle daydreaming,...

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Corporation tax cuts fail to create jobs, says TUC

Report's findings contradict key principle of Conservative economic policyLower corporate tax rates may not boost economic growth, a new report suggests, taking issue with a key principle at the heart...

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The joy of abstinence

Abstinence is gaining in popularity: Nadine Dorries MP - and many New Statesman readers – believe we should be teaching it to schoolgirls. But would it work? We return to the pioneering campaigns in...

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Bidisha's thought for the day: Volcanic ash

The odd gust of noxious ash is just what fraught individuals need to pause and assume a broader perspectiveCower, filthy mortals, the ash cloud cometh. We have been forced to stall our Easyjet-set...

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Good to meet you: Helen Nickols

A reader tempted in by a promotional offer while a student continues to enjoy a mixture of hard news and open debateThe lure of a free mug and a 20p paper brought me to the Guardian during my time as a...

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Letters: Arab revolutions and the world's hypocrisy

We the undersigned condemn any hypocritical and selective approach to the Arab revolutions. While Syrians discover mass graves (Report, 18 May), the so-called "international community" still lacks...

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Letters: Boundary dispute

I found your report (Asian people 42 times more likely to be held under terror law, 24 May) fascinating – especially when I came across your breakdown of those detained for over an hour: "White people...

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Letters: Questions raised by Ratko Mladic arrest

The arrest of Ratko Mladic is a welcome if long overdue breakthrough (16 years on, the Butcher of Bosnia is behind bars, 27 May). However, the fact that his capture coincided with the visit to Serbia...

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Letters: Internet regulation at global and local levels

With the amazing legacy we have given the world in computing, mathematics, design and web technologies – viz Charles Babbage, Alan Turing, Jonathan Ive and Tim Berners-Lee – we cannot allow America or...

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Letters: Just war in theory and practice

In his comment on current just war thinking (Violence: the soft option, 24 May), the Rev Canon Giles Fraser concludes that "just war ought to make as much sense to Christians as just adultery", quoting...

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Corrections and clarifications

• Give prisoners a chance to help the community, read the heading on a piece (16 May, G2, page 3) which went on to make passing mention of Broadmoor in Berkshire, describing this high-security...

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The stained glass world of a perfect sunset

After many frustrations, a belligerent Catholic and a trenchant atheist are seeking to settle their quarrel at sword point. An opportunity quite literally dawns on them. "The sunrise, which was...

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Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon

Flash of azure and translucence across dark flow of the Teifi, then stillness. I follow the darting trajectory. Clipped to a winter-blanched last-year's stalk of water-sedge is a keeled skimmer –...

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