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Clashes mark Jerusalem Day of Rage
Posted on March 16, 2010
Palestinians have clashed with Israeli police in two areas of occupied East Jerusalem after Palestinian groups called for a "day of rage" over the reopening of a synagogue in the Old City.
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    • Iran to execute stone-throwing demonstrator
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    A student who was arrested for throwing a stone during pro-democracy demonstrations is to be executed, Iran said yesterday. Mohammad-Amin Valian, a 20-year-old Islamic studies student, was arrested on the basis of a photograph taken at a mass demonstration against the rigged presidential election last year. He was among six people convicted of the Islamic crime of moharebeh, or waging war against God.
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    Ten sites named in £4bn UK marine energy project
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    The heavy Atlantic swell and some of the world's strongest tides are to be harnessed by a breakthrough scheme to generate clean marineenergy off northern Scotland, with predictions it will rival the output of a nuclear power station.
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    Brown rejects EU criticism
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Gordon Brown has rejected criticism from the EU Commission that the UK is not doing enough to tackle its spiralling deficit. The concerns were seized on by the Tories, who claimed they dealt Mr Brown's credibility a "heavy blow".
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    Labour ditches 'dog tax' after furious backlash from pet owners
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Ministers have been forced to ditch controversial plans to force millions of dog owners to insure their pets following a ferocious backlash. In a humiliating U-turn, the Government confirmed that it would not pursue plans to introduce a so-called 'dog tax'.
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    South Asian 'slave brides' causing concern in UK
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Hundreds of women who came to the UK from South Asia to marry say they have been treated as domestic slaves by their in-laws, the BBC has learned.
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    Unions have 'unprecedented grip' on Labour, claim Tories
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Labour is now controlled by militant trade unionists who are determined to reverse the modernising policies championed by Tony Blair, theConservatives claimed today.
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    Asia review
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    World's shortest man dies aged 21
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    • Ageing: et tu, Carla Bruni?
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Pity poor Carla Bruni. When she swept Nicolas Sarkozy off his dainty little feet, she probably had no idea quite how far into the public consciousness their romance would pitch her.
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    'Top Secret': The Power And Struggle Of The Press
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Listen to the story: Almost 40 years ago, the battle over the Pentagon Papers pitted national security against the freedom of the press. A top secret document many thousands of pages long, the Pentagon Papers was a study commissioned by then-Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on the United States' involvement in Vietnam.
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    John Harris: These horror stories offer the left home truths
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    • Inspectors condemn London's Crown Prosecution Service
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Chronic failings within the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in London have been exposed in a damning report.
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    Germany and France clash over Greek rescue package
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Conflict was brewing between Berlin and Paris yesterday over the crisis in the eurozone as the German Finance Minister called for countries that fail to clean up their finances to be thrown out of the single currency.
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    Council to approve plan to send nuclear waste to landfill
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Waste management company Augean is seeking to use a site in the village of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, to store up to 250,000 tonnes of radioactive debris a year
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    Concern over council chief executive pay-offs
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Council chief executives leaving their jobs early are pocketing an average pay-off of £256,104, a local government spending watchdog report has found.
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    Native Americans living in desperate poverty
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota is the poorest reservation in the United States. Nearly half of its nearly 30,000 residents live below the poverty level, and life expectancy is among the lowest in the Western world. Housing at Pine Ridge was the worst seen by UN Special Rapporteur for Housing Raquel Rolnik in her recent tour of the United States.
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    • Dozens arrested in Europe-wide mafia crackdown
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Dozens of people have been arrested across Europe in a major crackdown on Eastern European mafias. At least 24 were detained in Spain and another 45 were arrested in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy.
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    Operation Panther's Claw: 'Out of 130 men, we have had four deaths, 35 casualties and six amputees. It hasn't been easy'
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Seizing territory from the Taliban is one thing; holding it something else. Kim Sengupta spent a week with the Coldstream Guards and witnessed the brutal toll of death and injury inflicted on British troops in Afghanistan
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    • The Sports Report
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Football:
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    Thai protesters spill blood for cause
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Thousands of anti-government 'Red Shirt’ protesters donated their blood in Bangkok today for protest organisers who plan to use it to splash on the government’s gates in an unusual, but symbolic, gesture to demand snap elections.
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    US-Israeli relations in 'crisis of historic proportions'
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Israel has admitted its relations with the United States are in a "crisis of historic proportions" in the wake of the row over 1,600 new settler homes.
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    Warning - your child is unfit: Parents of pupils who fail school fitness tests to get letters from health police
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Parents of children deemed unfit are to be sent warning letters from schools. Secondary pupils will be forced to take an annual fitness test.
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    Petrol to hit 120p a litre, as motorists 'mugged' by oil companies
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Senior MPs and motoring groups said that oil companies were "mugging motorists on the forecourt" and urged Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, to delay next month's planned increase in petrol duty as well as investigate why drivers were paying so much.
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    Curb your spending, Brussels tells Gordon Brown
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    Gordon Brown was dealt an embarrassing blow last night when Brussels gave warning that Britain must do more to curb its spiralling debt.
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    Brown dragging Labour down – poll
    Posted on March 16, 2010
    The prime minister's deep unpopularity is continuing to harm Labour's election chances, according to today's Guardian/ICM poll, which shows the gap between the two main parties has grown to nine points.
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