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US elections: Obama wins Democratic nomination for president

The Guardian

4 June 2008

Barack Obama made history tonight by beating Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination to become the first African American with a viable chance of winning the White House.

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Only a 'grave threat' would trigger 42-day detention, say ministers

The Independent

4 June 2008

New powers to hold terror suspects for up to 42 days without charge would be triggered only by a "grave and exceptional" threat akin to the 7 July bombings in London, ministers said yesterday as they moved to defuse a potentially devastating revolt by Labour MPs.

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Only Palestinians can give Israel legitimacy
Alan Hart	By Alan Hart on 31/01/2007 14:06

It’s time, actually long past the time, that debate about who must do what and why to stop the countdown to catastrophe in the Middle East was informed by the facts about whether or not Israel had a right to come into existence.

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Life at the Met
Yvonne Ridley	By Yvonne Ridley on 31/01/2007 13:56

Just the other day Sir Ian Blair was said to be furious when a young, female Muslim recruit refused to shake hands with the Met chief on religious grounds. Why the outrage? If he'd bothered to read the cultural diversity handbook issued to his junior officers and grassroots police, he would have known it was improper for a stranger to go around shaking Muslim women's hands.

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Do drug addicts deserve pampering or a kick up the backside?
Emdad Rahman	By Emdad Rahman on 31/01/2007 13:49

Research by Nice has indicated that addicts responded positively to a voucher scheme as reward for attending treatment programmes. All this on the day we hear the NHS is considering asking staff to work one day for free to ease debts of 17 million.

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Fuelling the flames
Betty Hunter	By Betty Hunter on 30/01/2007 14:39

The beginning of 2007 finds the Palestinian people in the most perilous position of their entire history, at the mercy of an Israeli regime able to act with absolute impunity.

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We shall not be moved
Ismail Patel	By Ismail Patel on 30/01/2007 14:32

Tate Britain has entered the debate over the Iraq war by exhibiting placards, postcards and banners that were assembled by Brian Haw in Parliament Square, opposite the House of Commons.

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A day to remember
Lindsey German	By Lindsey German on 30/01/2007 14:29

The scale and methods of the Nazi genocide of Jewish people make it a politically unique event that deserves a special day of memorial.

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2008: Safari Tourism in Iraq, By Pablo Ouziel

Shortly after the occupation of Iraq in 2003, Coalition Provisional Authority administrator Paul Bremer issued an edict granting immunity to U.S. military and civilian personnel including employees of Blackwater USA. Read More...

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