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We’ll take your talent: US scientists warn Britain of ‘brain drain’
Posted on February 23, 2010
Britain will face a new brain drain of scientific talent to the United States if the next Government cuts the research budget to contain the £178 billion national debt, according to a group of America’s most senior and respected scientists.
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Airlines must say 'Persian Gulf' or face Iranian airspace ban
Posted on February 23, 2010
Ban is latest development in dispute between Iran and other Arab states over a waterway in the Middle East
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    • Spain braced for general strike as Zapatero tries to force labour law reform
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Spanish trade unionists will pour on to the streets tomorrow to protest against Socialist prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's attempts to reform a moribund economy that has left one in five Spaniards out of work.
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    Asia review
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Thousand gather for Whale's funeral in Vietnam
  • Pope gives Australia its own saint                
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    • Today's Comments
    Posted on February 23, 2010

    Dominic Lawson: The Conservatives should be praying to lose this election

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    Hamid Karzai takes control of Afghanistan election watchdog
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    While parliament is in recess, president unilaterally decrees he can appoint entire panel, reigniting fears of fraud
  • Karzai poll body power grab sparks Western concern                  
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    • European banks face showdown over €1 trillion of debt
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    European banks need to roll over €1 trillion (£877bn) of debt over the next two years at a much higher cost and in direct competition with hungry sovereign states, according to a report by Morgan Stanley.
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    Turkish police arrest 49 military officers over suspected coup plot
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Turkey's once all-powerful military is facing the biggest challenge to its authority in decades after 49 senior officers were detained on accusations of plotting to topple the country's Islamist-rooted government in a violent coup.
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    Argentina rallies regional support over Falklands
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Latin American and Caribbean leaders have backed Argentina's claim over the Falklands, Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has said.
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Football:
  • Winter Olympics:
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    • Hung parliament looms as Tory support crumbles
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Support for David Cameron's Conservative party has crumbled to its lowest point for nearly two years, according to the latest monthly Guardian/ICM poll, leaving Britain on course for a hung parliament at the coming general election.
  • UK voting intentions       
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    Ministers 'in a terrific muddle' over sex education
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    The Government was accused today of offering faith schools an "opt-out" on new national requirements on the teaching of issues like homosexual equality and contraception in sex education lessons.
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    Secret Labour plan to increase immigration for social reasons dismissed public's opposition as 'racist'
    Posted on February 23, 2010
    Sir Andrew Green of the Migrationwatch pressure group said: 'This report confirms that ministers deliberately rode roughshod over public opinion in adopting a policy of mass immigration
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