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Picture desk live: the best news pictures of the day

Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce are released from prison plus all the most eye-catching images of the day from the Guardian's award-winning picture teamFiona Shields

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Mother's Day parade shooting: New Orleans police search for suspects - video

Police in New Orleans are searching for three suspects after 19 people, including two children, were injured in a shooting at a Mother's Day parade on Sunday

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Tory EU referendum row and Cameron's press conference with Obama: Politics...

Andrew Sparrow's rolling coverage of all the day's political developments, including the Tory row about the EU referendum and David Cameron's press conference with President Obama in WashingtonAndrew...

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Eurozone crisis live: Finance ministers gather as tensions rise in Spain

Eurogroup will decide today whether to approve aid tranches for Greece and Cyprus, after seeing fresh anti-austerity protests in Spain over the weekendGraeme Wearden

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Vietnam picks US-educated official for top post

Nguyen Thien Nhan's appointment to elite politburo aimed at boosting Vietnam's image among investors in Europe and USVietnam's ruling Communist party has appointed for the first time a U.S.-educated...

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Syrian rebels to address bombings

George Sabra, acting president of Syrian National Coalition, will hold press conference to discuss twin car bombings in Turkey that killed 46 peoplePaul Owen

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Nawaz Sharif 'ready to hit ground running' as he heads for Pakistan win

Nawaz Sharif set to push through plans to curb power of generals, bolster economy and improve relations with IndiaThe full scale of Nawaz Sharif's thumping victory in Pakistan's general election became...

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ISS commander Chris Hadfield returns to Earth - video

Commander of the International Space Station Chris Hadfield, who became an internet sensation after his rendition of Bowie's Space Oddity, returns to Earth

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Tax havens are entrenching poverty in developing countries | Richard Miller

Poorer nations lose three times more money to havens a year than they get in aid. The G8 has the chance to change thisThe Guardian has brought yet more news about the widespread use of tax havens by...

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Iran must free the Bahá'í leaders who have been jailed for five years too...

A global campaign is under way to remind Iran that it has legal and moral obligations to treat its religious minorities with justiceToday is the fifth anniversary of the unjust imprisonment of seven...

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Mother's Day parade shooting: New Orleans police release shooting CCTV - video

Police in New Orleans investigating the Mother's Day parade shooting have released security footage allegedly showing one of the suspects

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Binyamin Netanyahu's spending under fire again as home expenses near £1m

Israeli PM and wife Sara's household spending up 80% in three years – days after revelations of double bed on chartered flightThe profligacy of Binyamin Netanyahu has come under fire for the second...

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Venezuela's president sends in troops to tackle street crime

Nicolás Maduro orders 3,000 troops to patrol Caracas in an effort to lower violent crime rateThe Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, has sent 3,000 troops on to the streets of the capital, Caracas,...

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Chinese teenager 'hired hitman to kill father and sister'

Boy hired killers via the internet because family was putting too much pressure on him over school studies, say reportsA teenage boy in central China has been detained on suspicion of hiring hitmen to...

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David Cameron is heading for the exit. Enter Michael Gove | Paul Goodman

The prime minister's failure of leadership on Europe has left him looking like a latter-day John MajorDavid Cameron has promised an in-out referendum on the EU in the next parliament. Why, then, do...

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See-and-treat approach can rein in Cambodia's cervical cancer death toll

For Cambodia which offers no treatment for cervical cancer apart from palliative care, see-and-treat programmes could radically cut deaths and reduce the burden of diseaseEvery year worldwide there are...

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Angelina Jolie had double mastectomy to reduce risk of breast cancer

Health campaigners praise actor's decision to go public with news to encourage other women to check for defective gene BRCA1Angelina Jolie has revealed she has had a preventive double mastectomy to...

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Daniel Loeb: hedge funds' Mr Pink guns for Sony

Famed for his acerbic attacks on corporate boards, one of Wall Street's most successful investors has achieved some notable successesWhen he starting out as a hedge fund manager in the 1990s, Dan Loeb...

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Eyewitness: Manchester, England

Photographs from the Guardian Eyewitness series

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Bangladeshi mourners gather at wreckage of garment factory

Thousands pray for souls of the 1,127 people who died in the collapse of Dhaka factory, as army ends search for bodiesThousands of mourners have gathered at the ruins of a Bangladeshi garment factory...

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