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White House stays silent on renewal of NSA data collection order
Officials decline to comment on whether they will seek to renew order that permits bulk collection of Americans' phone recordsThe Obama administration is refusing to say whether it will seek to renew a...
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Letters: How an expanded Heathrow would help tackle emissions
Your editorial (Gearing up for Airstrip One, 18 July) says it is hard to imagine how the UK will cut greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050 if it is building a third runway at Heathrow. Here is how it can be...
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Letters: Mishal Husain and the perils of communalism
While you are right to welcome this appointment to the Today programme (In praise of… Mishal Husain, 17 July), is it not time you reconsidered your policy of using religion as a basis for placating...
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Letters: End Cuba embargo
Javier Corrales, an American academic based in Massachusetts, apparently considers himself an expert on the Cuban economy and is recognised as such by the Guardian (Report, 18 July). He says the great...
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Middle East: a wall of difficulties | Editorial
Military solutions, whether arming the rebels in Syria or deterring the Iranians would, it is now more widely agreed, be madnessThe Middle East is grim terrain for intervention, diplomacy or mediation...
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Judge refuses to drop 'aiding the enemy' charge in Bradley Manning trial
Defence witness 'extraordinarily disappointed' after Col Denise Lind declines to throw out charges against WikiLeaks sourceThe judge presiding over the court martial of the WikiLeaks source Bradley...
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Penn State: $60m in settlements with Sandusky victims agreed so far
Approximately 25 of 31 outstanding claims were covered by the settlement approved by the university's trusteesPenn State University has reached tentative settlements totaling about $60m so far with men...
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Taliban commander sends letter to Malala
Adnan Rasheed tells schoolgirl she was targeted because Taliban believed she was running smear campaignA senior member of the Pakistani Taliban has written an open letter to Malala Yousafzai – the...
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Speculation mounts on Israeli-Palestinian talks
Mahmoud Abbas convenes meeting of leadership in Ramallah to report on proposals for resumption of negotiationsThe Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, has convened a meeting of the Palestinian...
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Putin critic Alexei Navalny convicted
Protests in Moscow as Russian opposition leader is found guilty of embezzlement in trial seen as politically motivatedThe Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to five years in...
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Barack Obama urged to act on deal for global aviation pollution
Member of European parliament wants US president to live up to climate change rhetoric by helping to advance carbon dealBarack Obama must act fast to avoid a trade war over Europe's efforts to curb...
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Secret court lets NSA extend its trawl of Verizon customers' phone records
Latest revelation an indication of how Obama administration has opened up hidden world of mass communications surveillanceThe National Security Agency has been allowed to extend its dragnet of the...
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From the archive, 20 July 1960: Anti-communism in Cuba
A number of citizens publicly proclaimed a provocative sentiment – 'Castro sí, Khrushchev no'A cloud no bigger than a priest's hat appeared on the Cuban revolutionary horizon yesterday. This is a city...
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar charged over deadly Algerian hostage crisis
Fugitive leader of al-Qaida splinter group blamed for more than 30 deaths after militants seized gas plantFederal prosecutors in the US have charged the fugitive militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar over...
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Woman dies on Texas rollercoaster
Witnesses say passenger fell to her death from the Texas Giant ride at Six Flags amusement park in ArlingtonA woman riding a rollercoaster at an amusement park in north Texas died on Friday when she...
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Nauru detention centre burns down
Riot destroys most of asylum-seeker processing facility on island, with detainees being moved to second, incomplete siteThere are no plans to move any asylum seekers detained in Nauru to detention in...
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Lennie Goodings: 'Virago survived because it's a brand with a philosophy'
The books interview: as women's imprint Virago turns 40, its boss declares herself ever ready to take a risk on an authorSome authors have strong, early memories of reading or listening to stories....
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The world is aghast over Trayvon Martin. The US needs to look at itself |...
The jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman say they acted in strict accordance with US law. That in itself speaks volumes"O, wad some Power the giftie gie us /To see oursels as others see us! / It wad...
View ArticleAsylum seekers: Australia's day of shame
Christine Milne: The agreement signed by Kevin Rudd with Papua New Guinea is ruthless electioneering. It shames us all, because we are better than thatChristine Milne
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The Turkish protests have left us enlightened and emboldened | Zeynep...
The overseas interest has waned but our protests continue amid a brutal government crackdown and give us reason to smileOn 25 June, three weeks after the Gezi Park protest started, an American friend...
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