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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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Yvonne Ridley

Author:	Yvonne Ridley	Created:	24/12/2006 12:45
British-born, award-winning journalist Yvonne Ridley is well known in the Muslim world for her outspoken views and defence of Islam. She endeared herself to the Muslim community in Britain when she reverted to Islam 30 months after making international headlines when she was captured by the Taleban on an undercover assignment in Afghanistan.

Life at the Met
	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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Remembering the victims on Holocaust Memorial Day
	By Yvonne Ridley on 22/01/2007 11:43

Holocaust Memorial Day is approaching very soon. It gives Jewish people across the globe an opportunity to reflect on the horrors and injustices of the past and remember their own who died in the most vile and appalling way at the hands of the German Nazis.

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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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