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Dutch outrage as US general blames gay soldiers for Srebrenica
Posted on March 19, 2010
A retired American general has blamed the UN's historic failure to protect the Bosnian "safe haven" of Srebrenica on the fact that there were openly gay soldiers in the Dutch peacekeeping battalion assigned to it.              
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    • The Lib Dems are talking tough on debt - but where's the beef?
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Politicians won't tell the truth because voters have been infantilised by Labour, says Jeff Randall
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    Quartet blasts Israel over East Jerusalem settlements
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Strongly worded statement from Middle East peace envoys calls for pullout from Palestinian territories within 24 months
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    • The disfigured statue of Henry Morton Stanley, we presume
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    A campaign to restore a memorial to the explorer has reopened the scars left by colonial rule in the Congo. Katrina Manson reports from Kinshasa
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    Sex sells: The girl band that changed pop forever
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Under-age, under-dressed, and over-the-top, The Runaways were the first girl rock group to make a global impact. Now their story is a movie. Chris Salewicz recalls his times with Joan Jett, Cherie Currie and their band
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    India's 'modern-day Nero' to be grilled over Muslim bloodbath
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Narendra Modi, tipped as a future prime minister, is called to appear before tribunal investigating 2002 Gujarat massacre
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    Blair's fight to keep his oil cash secret: Former PM's deals are revealed as his earnings since 2007 reach £20million
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Tony Blair waged an extraordinary two-year battle to keep secret a lucrative deal with a multinational oil giant which has extensive interests in Iraq. Mr Blair also went to great efforts to keep hidden a £1million deal advising the ruling royal family in Iraq's neighbour Kuwait.
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    Middle East review
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Islam Online faces collapse after Cairo staff revolt over ‘religious pressure’
  • Islamism: why the west gets it wrong            
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    • Iran’s Opposition Seeks More Help in Cyberwar With Government
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    At a time when the Obama administration is pressing for harsher sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program, democracy advocates in Iran have been celebrating the recent decision by the United States to lift sanctions on various online services, which they say only helped Tehran to suppress the opposition.
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    Frenchmen would love looser law to bring back brothels
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    More than 60 years after Paris shut its famed maisons closes, or brothels, an MP from President Sarkozy’s UMP party is campaigning to legalise them again.
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    Success of secret two-child policy could force Chinese rethink on family planning
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    A secret experiment allowing families in a rural Chinese county to have two children could herald the beginning of a social revolution after years of the notorious one-child-only rule.
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    Councils 'missing housing targets'
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    Around 98% of councils have failed to provide the affordable housing needed in their area, a charity said. Shelter said only eight out of the 323 local authorities in England had managed to provide enough affordable homes to meet demand during 2008-09.
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    • Britain is euro centre for miaow
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    The lethal legal high is being "actively marketed" through dozens of dedicated websites and virtually all are based in the UK, according to the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction.
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    Mandelson warns of further tax rises next year
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    The First Secretary became the first senior minister to admit that “further” raising of taxes beyond the measures already announced would have to be considered in 2011. The Government is planning to introduce a 50p tax rate for those earning over £150,000 and increase National Insurance contributions by 5p in the pound in next week’s Budget.
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    Student loan fiasco 'could be repeated'
    Posted on March 19, 2010
    The student loans fiasco that left hundreds of thousands of undergraduates without cash last year is likely to be repeated in 2010, according to a damning report.
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