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Police stop and search innocent people to balance race figures, terror watchdog says
Posted on June 17, 2009
Members of the public are being stopped and searched under controversial anti-terror laws to racially balance the overall official figures, the Government's watchdog over the issue said today.
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President Obama sets out biggest overhaul of Wall Street in decades
Posted on June 17, 2009
President Barack Obama has set out the biggest overhaul of the regulation of Wall Street in more than 50 years in an effort to prevent a repeat of the financial crisis.
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    Tehran: YouTube video shows gunman shooting into crowd with AK47
    Posted on June 17, 2009
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    Brazil finds new strain of H1N1 virus
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    The variant has been called A/Sao Paulo/1454/H1N1 by the Adolfo Lutz Bacteriological Institute, which compared it with samples of the A(H1N1) swine flu from California.
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    British motorists pay £1000m in motor-related taxes every week
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    By the time the Blair/Brown fiefdom is finally expunged, Labour's gross profits from road user taxes and other state-sponsored motoring ruses will (at today's money) probably nudge £750bn.
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    Girl to sue over facial tattoos
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    A Belgian teenager is to sue a tattoo artist after she left his parlour with 56 stars on her face, rather than the three she says she asked for.
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    Hard Times - Part 4: Escape from the benefits trap
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    In the fourth part of our series comparing modern Britain with Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’, Paul Vallely meets Mancunians for whom Every Little Helps is more than a sales pitch.
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    The meddling Prince is right to speak out
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    The Royal Family is at its best when it is protecting our heritage and championing causes
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    David Cameron ‘would not oppose’ Blair becoming first president of the EU
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    David Cameron will give Tony Blair a free run if he tries to become the EU’s first president, The Times has learnt.
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    As dole queue grows, bank workers and teachers among the 2,000 a day applying for a McJob
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    Fast food giant McDonald's is being swamped by more than 2,200 job applications every day, including from bank workers, graduates and teachers.
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    BA asks staff to work for nothing
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    British Airways has asked its 40,000 staff to work for free in a bid to save the airline.
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    Belfast: Romanians flee homes after attack
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    A five-day-old girl is among more than 100 Romanian people who have spent the night in a church hall after fleeing their homes in south Belfast.
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    MPs' expenses: Tory claims £57,000 to rent flat from own company
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    A millionaire Conservative MP broke parliamentary rules by claiming more than £50,000 in taxpayer-funded expenses to rent a flat from his own company.
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    New MI6 boss is 'excellent dancer'
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    Tall, dashing and an astute judge of character, we profile Britain's ambassador to the United Nations Sir John Sawers, who is to be head of MI6.
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    Darling to blame boards for bank meltdown
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    Chancellor will demand that directors abandon drive for quick profits in his annual Mansion House speech
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    David Miliband wants interrogation policy kept secret
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    MI5 officers stand accused of colluding in torture
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    Generals go to war over Iraq inquiry
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    Secret investigation will be seen as cover-up, warn Army and intelligence chiefs
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    Robert Fisk: Fear has gone in a land that has tasted freedom
    Posted on June 17, 2009
    In defiance of the ban on foreign reporters, The Independent's Middle East correspondent ventures out to witness an extraordinary stand-off on the streets of Tehran.
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