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Obama undecided on Arctic Council expansion days before summit
Arctic region's international governing body will debate member status of 14 potential new members including ChinaBarack Obama is for the moment staying neutral on the highly contentious question of...
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North Korea makes its case against Kenneth Bae
Regime justifies sentencing Korean-American to 15 years' hard labour for 'trying to establish a base for anti-Pyongyang activities'North Korea has delivered its most in-depth account yet of the case...
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Armed police surround Birmingham pub after man shot dead
Victim of 'targeted attack' has been identified but gunman still on loose, police sayArmed police were surrounding a pub in Birmingham on Friday evening after a man was shot dead there.Officers were...
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Barack Obama to visit Belfast while in Northern Ireland for G8 summit
US president expected to express support for peace process and 'engage with the people of Northern Ireland'The White House has confirmed that Barack Obama is to visit Belfast as well as the G8 summit...
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Benghazi: State Department 'pressed to change' Susan Rice talking points
New details emerge of political concerns in aftermath of consulate attack that killed ambassador Chris StevensSenior State Department officials pressed for changes in the talking points that UN...
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Syria: the ugly choice ahead | Editorial
It is right for Barack Obama to resist pressure from Britain and France to arm the rebelsThis week the civil war in Syria revealed its full potential for destabilising the Middle East as a whole. After...
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Unthinkable? Wagner without tears | Editorial
Wagner still matters – because he was an artistic revolutionaryIt was predictable that in his bicentenary year there should be at least one controversial Wagner production, though glumly tedious that...
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Letters: Stephen Hawking, free speech and Israeli democracy
Stephen Hawking is berated for traducing the spirit of free speech and liberty by boycotting Israel's upcoming presidential conference (Hawking boycotts conference in Israel, 9 May). According to the...
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Indonesia's tropical forests set to benefit from further clearing ban
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono expected to sign extended deal to help restore habitat of tigers and orangutansA ban on the clearing of tropical forests in Indonesia is on the verge of being extended in a...
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Prince Harry salutes fallen American soldiers as US tour continues
Prince visits Arlington Cemetery to lay wreathes and National Military Medical Center to talk to wounded veteransPrince Harry saluted America's war dead in somber remembrance at Arlington National...
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Horsemeat scandal: fear that culprits will not face justice
Concern in UK at Irish inquiry as Europe-wide investigation stallsAlmost four months after the widespread adulteration of beef products with horsemeat was revealed by the Food Safety Authority of...
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Malcolm X's grandson killed in Mexico City, US officials confirm
Friend claims 28-year-old grandson of political activist died Thursday after bar fight over bill in Mexico CityMalcolm Shabazz, grandson of political activist Malcolm X, died while traveling in Mexico,...
View ArticleMartin Rowson on Tories looking over the edge of a cliff – cartoon
Conservative bigwigs and the debate about the UK's future in the EUMartin Rowson
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Nasa to send astronauts to fix leak onboard international space station
Two Nasa astronauts to go on 'spacewalk' on Saturday to fix ammonia leak in international space station cooling systemNasa plans to send two astronauts aboard the International Space Station out on a...
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White House under renewed criticism after leaked Benghazi emails
Jay Carney denies that White House pressured CIA to revise its account of Benghazi attack and accuses GOP of leaking emailsThe White House was attempting to contain a renewed outbreak of criticism on...
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New York Times Pakistan bureau chief expelled on eve of country's election
Veteran Pakistan correspondent Declan Walsh received order to leave country at midnight local time for 'undesirable activities'The New York Times' Pakistan bureau chief has been expelled from the...
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After kidnap: Jaycee Lee Dugard on being freed after 18 years in captivity
Three women who were abducted years ago in Cleveland, Ohio, were freed this week. Re-adjusting will not be easy – as kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard recalls in this extract from her bookJaycee Lee...
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Cameron running scared on EU, says Miliband
Labour leader claims PM's decision to back Tory rebels' referendum amendment reveals an obsession with party interests instead of country'sDavid Cameron is "hiding behind the sofa" from Tory...
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Former Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide and jailed for 80 years
Efraín Ríos Montt held to account for abuses in campaign that killed an estimated 200,000 and led to 45,000 disappearancesThe former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide on...
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More than 70 great paintings return to home of Britain's first prime minister
Works by Rembrandt, Poussin, van Dyck and Velasquez – many sold to Catherine the Great in 1779 – go on show in NorfolkGetting Luca Giordano's enormous Sleeping Bacchus from Saint Petersburg to Norfolk...
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