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Barclays fights US electricity price manipulation fine through the courts

Bank intends to 'vigorously defend' $470m fine for allegedly manipulating electricity pricesBarclays has pledged to fight a $470m (£300m) penalty for allegedly manipulating electricity prices in...

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Heathrow extension: residents of villages facing demolition feel 'trapped'

Villagers in Harmondsworth and Stanwell Moor, threatened under plans to expand Heathrow, tell of their fears for the futureStanding in the shade of a 1,000-year-old yew tree at the front of St Mary's...

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Costa Concordia trial hears details of victims' deaths

Court official reads out names of deceased and how each one drowned, quoting from indictment of Francesco SchettinoThe Italian court trying the captain of the Costa Concordia has heard grim details...

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GlaxoSmithKline executive hit by Chinese travel ban

GSK's finance chief stopped from leaving China as police investigate claims the UK drug firm bribed doctorsChina is preventing the British finance director of GlaxoSmithKline China from leaving the...

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Building an empire through arms | Richard Seymour

Shock at the sale of weapons to 'repressive regimes' misses the real issue: what the arms trade tells us about powerWhy does Britain arm human rights abusers? On the face of it, this is a nonsensical...

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Back at last: British airmen shot down in last week of war buried in Italy

Sixty-eight years after they were killed in action in the second world war, the bodies of the poet David Raikes and his comrades are finally being laid to rest in Lombardy"And some did not come back....

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Six Met police officers could be sacked over racist joke text messages

News emerges as part of watchdog report saying force is failing in way it handles racism complaints against officers from publicSix Metropolitan police officers are facing the sack for sending each...

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Dutch art heist paintings may have been burned by suspect's mother

Forensic specialists find traces of paint and canvas in ashes from oven belonging to Romanian womanAsh from an oven owned by a woman whose son is charged with stealing seven multimillion-pound...

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Stephen Lawrence: Met chief 'failed to tell' mother about police spying

Bernard Hogan-Howe accused of withholding information when he met Doreen Lawrence to discuss claims of covert operationBritain's most senior police officer failed to tell Doreen Lawrence, the mother of...

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Liz Cheney's underwhelming ad makes weak bid for Wyoming Senate seat | Harry...

The farm setting is all very well, but she'll need a stronger message to depose her solidly conservative GOP opponentWhoFormer Vice-President Dick Cheney's older daughter, Liz Cheney. Liz Cheney has...

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Charity chief calls for identification of drowned asylum seekers

World Vision chief executive joins Christmas Island administrator in calling for names to be released to 'humanise' victimsConvoluted procedures ensure asylum seekers who drown at sea are seldom...

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Mattel profit slumps as Barbie's appeal continues to fade

World's largest toymaker reports 23% fall in profits as sales of its most famous doll shrink for fourth quarter in a rowGirls are falling out of love with Barbie. Global sales of the 54-year-old doll...

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Children poisoned at Dominican Republic hotel win damages

High court approves settlement for victims of a string of severe gastric illnesses contracted at Bahia Principe resortDamages for 60 children, from babies to teenagers, who fell ill from food poisoning...

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NSA warned to rein in surveillance as agency reveals even greater scope

NSA officials testify to angry House panel that agency can perform 'three-hop queries' through Americans' data and recordsThe National Security Agency revealed to an angry congressional panel on...

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Rolling Stone's contoversial Dzohkhar Tsarnaev cover ignites heated debate

Pharmacy chain CVS declines to sell magazine amid criticism over glamorous cover image of Boston bombing suspect with story titled 'Jahar's World'• Poll: Was Rolling Stone wrong to put Tsarnaev on the...

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Bernie Ecclestone bribery charge puts Formula One reign in doubt

German indictment over €44m payment to banker and timing of court case could again delay $12bn flotation of F1The future of Bernie Ecclestone in Formula One has been thrown into doubt after the sport's...

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Voting Rights Act hearings at the US Senate – live updates

Senate judiciary committee holds hearing on how to 'restore protections' after supreme court struck down key part of the lawJim Newell

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Syrian pro-Assad supporter assassinated in Lebanon

Mohammad Darra Jamo, a commentator who worked for Syrian state media, killed by gunmen in southern town of SarafandMilitants have assassinated a well-known supporter of the Syrian president, Bashar...

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Bernie Ecclestone indicted by German court for alleged bribery

• Lawyers for Formula One impresario accepted indictment• Ecclestone claimed he has done 'nothing illegal'Bernie Ecclestone's hold on Formula One, as the sport's chief executive, commercial rights...

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Doctors race to save poisoned children

Parents display bodies outside school after meal believed contaminated with pesticides kills at least 20 at primary schoolDoctors are fighting to save a group of primary schoolchildren poisoned by...

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