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• Special forces funding fighters in Afghanistan • Fears strategy could further destabilise countryUS special forces are supporting anti-Taliban militias in at least 14 ...
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The exterior of the Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre in Los Angeles in 2003. Photograph: Getty Images The security at the red-brick and glass-walled horseshoe of the ...
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via Jamal Dajani, The Guardian
A building in Sderot, Israel, damaged in a Hamas rocket strike in 2008. Photograph: AP/Almog Sugavker Hamas has won an agreement from other militant groups in Gaza to halt ...
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via Jamal Dajani, The Guardian
Mohammad Ali Abtahi jailed for six years after being accused of fomenting unrest after disputed June election in Iran A former vice president has been jailed for six years ...
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A Chinese coalmine. Rescuers are battling to locate 21 miners trapped after a gas explosion on Saturday. Photograph: Shengli/Reuters Hundreds of rescuers in northern China are ...
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Barack Obama's healthcare reforms will be debated in full by the US Senate. Photograph: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Barack Obama's troubled healthcare reforms today overcame ...
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As every middlebrow with a newspaper column or Radio 4 slot to fill agrees, a vulgar "new atheism" is sweeping Britain. The readers of Richard Dawkins, Philip Pullman and ...
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Tamil civilians peep over a fence at an internment camp in Vavuniya yesterday. Photograph: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced ...
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Biogas sourced from food waste and sewage is to piped into British homes under a new ?green gas? tariff Rotting leftovers, wilted salad and even sewage are to provide a new ...
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• Chance to limit warming squandered, says scientist• World needs to prepare to cope with at least 3-4C riseClimate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have ...
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The pope and the archbishop of Canterbury at the Vatican. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images The archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, took the highly unusual step yesterday ...
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If there is one thing on which many working mothers agree, it is that their partners do not pull their weight on the domestic front. But research to be published this week ...
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Lady Ashton is apparently a perfectly personable woman, but she was only chosen because she ticked the right boxes If someone held the patent for the word "nice" they would ...
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• ?Calls have fallen on deaf ears at French Football Federation? • FAI?s John Delaney also thanks ?solidarity of the French people? The Republic of Ireland have been ...
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The real challenge to the biblical literalism held dear by creationists is in the Bible itself An academic conference in Louisville, Kentucky, provided me with an opportunity ...
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• Swelling population ?risks demographic disaster? • Cynicism and disaffection among disturbing findings Pakistan faces a "demographic disaster" if its leaders fail to ...
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via Jamal Dajani, The Guardian
David Miliband says UK needs more time to shore up Afghan government The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today ...
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GCHQ to run ad campaign within Xbox Live online games to attract 18- to 34-year-olds to its ranks The campaign marks the first time that GCHQ, which reports to the foreign ...
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via The Guardian
Charging to read news content is like ?putting genie back in bottle?, says Twitter co-founder Biz Stone The co-founder of Twitter today warned Rupert Murdoch that his plans to ...
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Peruvian police arrest suspects who allegedly drained their victims and sold liquid as an anti-wrinkle treatment Peruvian police have arrested a gang which allegedly killed ...
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via The Guardian
Prosecution drops case against chronic sleep disorder sufferer who strangled wife during bad dream on holiday A devoted husband who strangled his wife while having a nightmare ...
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Problem of biodiversity loss has been ?eased off centre stage? by focus on climate change, according to Prof Edward Wilson, the ecologist described as ?Darwin?s natural heir? ...
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Hundreds of emails and documents exchanged between world?s leading climate scientists stolen by hackers and leaked online Hundreds of private emails and documents allegedly ...
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The Guardian
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Jon Dennis, Phil Maynard, Suzanne Goldenberg, Jonathan Watts, James Randerson
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Nov. 20, 2009
via The Guardian
Today we present a special edition of our daily news podcast focusing on next month?s crucial United Nations summit on climate change. Many fear that if world leaders fail to ...
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The Guardian
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Helen Carter, Caroline Davies
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Nov. 20, 2009
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Lifeboats are launched to aid those stranded as severe flooding cuts off the centre of Cockermouth in Cumbria A major rescue operation was launched tonight to evacuate more ...
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