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Poles remember historic 1989 vote
Posted on June 4, 2009
Poland is marking the 20th anniversary of the elections that led to the formation of the first non-communist government in the former Soviet bloc.
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    Air France jet debris recovered
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Brazilian navy ships have begun recovering debris from an Air France jet lost over the Atlantic this week, a Brazilian air force official has said.
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    Iran marks Ayatollah Khomeini anniversary
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has strongly criticised the US as Iran marks 20 years since the death of the founder of the Islamic republic.
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    Labour prepares to go to war over Gordon Brown's future
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Labour whips are braced for a resumption of hostilities in the battle over Gordon Brown's future tonight after a day-long truce while voters across the UK delivered their verdict at local and European elections.
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    Blunders revealed as Dano Sonnex and Nigel Farmer guilty of French student murders
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    A psychopath and a drug addict who tortured two French students for three hours before killing them and torching their home were today found guilty of murder.
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    Barack Obama wants 'new beginning' for Islam and America
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Barack Obama wants 'new beginning' for Islam and America
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    Tiananmen Square - 20 years on
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    It is 20 years since Ding Zilin stood by her gate and waited for her son. "What came were students with tattered clothes and dishevelled hair, shouting 'they are killing people, they are shooting at people,'" she recalled.
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    Chicken injected with beef waste sold in UK
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Cafes and restaurants across Britain have been selling chicken secretly injected with beef and pork waste, The Independent can reveal today. In a hi-tech fraud run by firms in three EU states, food manufacturers are making bulking agents out of porcine and bovine gristle and bones that help inflate chicken breasts, so that they fetch a higher price.
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    Gordon Brown and New Labour: A collapse that is long overdue
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Deborah Orr: Labour deserves its fate. But the people it was supposed to represent do not.
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    Latvian debt crisis shakes Eastern Europe
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Latvia has become the first EU country to face a sovereign debt crisis after failing to sell a single bill at a treasury auction worth $100m (£61m), prompting fears of a fresh storm in Eastern Europe as capital flight tests currency pegs.
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    Royal Navy captures Somali pirates... and sets them free
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Nearly a dozen pirates armed with rocket-propelled grenades, machineguns and grappling hooks have been seized in the Gulf of Aden, after being intercepted by a Royal Navy warship.
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    Robert Fisk: Could it be al-Qa'ida is missing Bush?
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    President Barack Obama was received in the Middle East with the usual grovelling Saudi plea for help in taming the Israelis and an incendiary threat from Osama bin Laden that America will pay the price for his role in displacing a million Muslim refugees in Pakistan.
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    Iranian poll rivals clash on live TV
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been accused of undermining Iran's dignity, in a live TV debate with his main rival 10 days ahead of elections.    
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    Barack Obama set for keynote Egypt speech
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    US President Barack Obama is preparing to give a much-anticipated speech in Cairo, on the second leg of his tour of the Middle East and Europe.
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    Hazel Blears avoided capital gains tax on two properties
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Hazel Blears, who has resigned as Communities Secretary, avoided paying capital gains tax on the sale of two 'flipped' properties - not one, as previously thought.
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    Brown faces a day of Euro poll disaster as UKIP scores higher in opinion polls than Labour
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Gordon Brown is heading for the worst performance by a government in modern political history in today's European elections, according to a shock poll. His party is a humiliating two points behind the UK Independence Party among certain voters and just one point ahead of the Liberal Democrats. The Tories are ten points clear of Labour, according to the YouGov survey for the Daily Telegraph.
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    Gordon Brown fights for his political life
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    Gordon Brown is facing a concerted attempt to force him from office as Labour MPs circulated a letter calling for his resignation
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    US presses China over Tiananmen
    Posted on June 4, 2009
    US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged China to publicly account for those killed in the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests 20 years ago.
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