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Guantánamo Bay guards withholding food, 9/11 defendant alleges
Allegation from Ramzi bin al Shibh a rare lively moment in a day that was otherwise devoted to lengthy legal argumentsA defendant in the September 11 terror attack case alleged Tuesday that guards at...
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Martin Rowson on the fake bomb detector case – cartoon
Three British government departments and agencies were found to have promoted the international sale of fake bomb detectors in a fraud caseMartin Rowson
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Pakistan: the general is no longer untouchable | Editorial
One way or another, the charges brought against Pervez Musharraf amount to the same thing: putting him on trialCompared with the announcement in June in which the Pakistani prime minister, Nawaz...
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New blow for Tony Abbott over paid parental leave scheme
Economic modelling shows real financial benefit could be half of what the opposition leader suggests under the $5.5bn schemeThe real financial gain for women under the Coalition's $5.5bn paid parental...
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Election 2013: 'This is the craziest election that I've been involved in' -...
This is the eighth federal election veteran photographer Mike Bowers has covered. After spending the first two weeks of the 2013 campaign following Kevin Rudd he describes the madness of day-to-day...
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From White House puppies to Manila floods: the best news pictures of the day
The Guardian's award-winning picture team rounds up the most eye-catching images of the dayJoanna RuckMee-Lai Stone
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Astronaut recounts his near-drowning on spacewalk
Luca Parmitano gives interview relating the terrifying moments when his spacesuit helmet began to fill with waterThe Italian astronaut who nearly drowned in his helmet during a spacewalk on 16 July has...
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Labor pledges $15m for regional and rural cancer care nurses
Nurses will co-ordinate services to support cancer patients and their families outside big citiesLabor has promised $15m to establish a network of nurse co-ordinators in rural and regional Australia to...
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Angela Merkel visits Dachau concentration camp
German president is first to enter site of Nazi centre for detention of 'undesirables', where more than 41,000 diedAngela Merkel became the first German leader to walk through the imposing steel gates...
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NBN: we would have been better off without privatisation | John Quiggin
John Quiggin: The construction of an Australian national broadband network would be much simpler and cheaper if Telstra had never been privatised. The only solution is a return to public investmentJohn...
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Peru drug suspects spend night in courthouse
Presiding judge expected to decide whether to press charges against Michaela McCollum and Melissa Reid on WednesdayTwo women arrested on suspicion of trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.5m out of Peru...
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David Miranda's detention had no basis in law, says former lord chancellor
Lord Falconer, who helped introduce Terrorism Act 2000, criticises home secretary's backing of police action at HeathrowThe Metropolitan police had no legal basis to detain David Miranda under the...
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Australian Politics Weekly podcast: Half-time in the election campaign
As decision day draws closer Kevin Rudd takes a hit in the polls while Tony Abbott – despite not releasing details of how his government would pay for its spending – gains confidence. The panel...
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Nova Peris: I have been subjected to racist abuse
Indigenous Labor candidate says claims about her father and about being pursued for debts were sent to newspaperNova Peris, the Labor Senate candidate for the Northern Territory, has said she has...
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Chris Lane: call for tourism boycott as teens charged with murder refused bail
Former deputy PM Tim Fischer urges Australian tourists to boycott the US to send a message about gun controlTwo of the three teenagers charged over the murder of Australian baseball player Chris Lane...
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We wouldn't treat animals the way we treat refugees | Julian Burnside
Julian Burnside: If either party were promising to be cruel to animals, it would lose the election. But being cruel to asylum seekers is now a national sport in Australia, and our national character is...
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US and UK at odds over security tactics as Miranda row escalates
White House says it would be 'difficult to imagine' US authorities adopting GCHQ tactic of demanding destruction of hard drivesThe White House distanced itself from Britain's handling of the leaked NSA...
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Election 2013: Making sense of disparate polls
How can pollsters in the field at the same time, asking similar questions, get answers that vary by this much?The latest batch of national polls is a mixed lot, as the table below reveals. There is a...
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Schoolboy errors in Mexico textbooks
Materials given to students despite many mistakes – rankling teachers and parents during drive for better educationAs Mexican children trooped back to school on Monday they had already learned one...
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Barry O'Farrell denies Linda Burney comments were racist
NSW premier implied the indigenous Labour MP and deputy opposition leader had not achieved her position on meritThe NSW premier, Barry O'Farrell, has brushed off claims that comments he made about the...
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