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Africa Review
Posted on September 3, 2010
Benin: Thousands left penniless after collapse of Ponzi scheme
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    Calls for action as Swedish TV rejects anti-immigration ad
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    A dispute over freedom of speech is raging in Sweden after an anti-immigration campaign advert for a political party was rejected by broadcasters there. Last Friday, Swedish TV channel TV4 said it would not broadcast an advert by the far-right Sweden Democrats because it considered the ad would incite racial hatred.
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    • Middle East Review
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Iran calls Carla Bruni a 'prostitute’
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    Venezuelans are desperate for change
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    For all the ways the Venezuelan election is being rigged, it says much about Hugo Chávez's unpopularity that he could still lose
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    • Andy Coulson discussed phone hacking at News of the World, report claims
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The prime minister's media adviser, Andy Coulson, freely discussed the use of unlawful news-gathering techniques while editor of the News of the World and "actively encouraged" a named reporter to engage in the illegal interception of voicemail messages, according to allegations published by the New York Times.
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    Yes, BBC was biased: Director General Mark Thompson admits a 'massive' lean to Left
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    BBC Director General Mark Thompson has admitted the corporation was guilty of a 'massive' Left-wing bias in the past. But he claimed there was now 'much less overt tribalism' among the current crop of young journalists, and said in recent times the corporation was a 'broader church'. 
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    • Europe Review
    Posted on September 1, 2010
    Rape charges reissued against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange
  • Sex and the city of Berlin          
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    Asia Review
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Crocodile Dundee prevented from leaving Australia over tax bill
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    The role of libraries
    Posted on August 31, 2010
    Masden Pirie: New government statistics show that libraries are less popular than ever, with a drop over 5 years of nearly one-third in the number who visit them. Over 60 percent of adults do not use them even once a year. Libraries seem vulnerable
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    • Americas Review
    Posted on August 30, 2010
    Ohio strippers stage picket outside church services
  • Mexico sees sense in war on drugs            
  • The renaissance of New Orleans            
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    Andy Kershaw: 'Amateur psychologists say Rwanda screwed me up. It didn't: I just reported it'
    Posted on August 29, 2010
    As the world music DJ gets ready to return to the BBC, he talks to Vanessa Thorpe about culture, war zones – and John Peel
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    David Grossman: 'I cannot afford the luxury of despair'
    Posted on August 29, 2010
    The Israeli writer discusses his novel To the End of the Land, a memorial to his son who was killed while serving in the army, and why he remains an opponent of his country's policy towards the Palestinians
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    Weekend Cinema: Film News and Reviews
    Posted on August 28, 2010
    Telegraph
    •New York Times
    •Guardian
    •Indepedent
    •Film trailers
    •IMDb
  • Trailer: Mesrine      
  • Trailer: Takers       
  • Trailer: Centurion      
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    Weekend Book Reviews
    Posted on August 28, 2010
    Independent
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    Murdoch is too powerful says BBC director general
    Posted on August 28, 2010
    Mark Thompson, the BBC director general, launched a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's media empire tonight, warning that BSkyB is too powerful and threatens to "dwarf" the BBC and its competitors.
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    Africa Review
    Posted on August 27, 2010
    Libya's Gaddafi heads to Italy with tent, 'Amazonian' bodyguards and 30 Berber horses
  • Mandela home 'was bugged'          
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    Middle East Review
    Posted on August 26, 2010
    Sri Lankan woman 'had nails embedded in body by Saudi employers’
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    Europe Review
    Posted on August 25, 2010
    Rock-loving Dmitry Medvedev has tea with Bono
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    Authorities: Swedish prosecutor believed Assange could leave country
    Posted on August 25, 2010
    Stockholm, Sweden (CNN) -- A Swedish prosecutor who issued a later-revoked arrest warrant against WikiLeaks founder and editor Julian Assange believed Assange was about to leave the country, according to a statement posted on the Sweden Prosecution Authority's website. 
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    • Argentina Moves to Seize Newsprint Firm
    Posted on August 25, 2010
    BUENOS AIRES—Argentina's government intensified a campaign to wrest control of the country's largest newsprint-paper provider on Tuesday, a move top local newspapers called a brazen attack on press freedom. "Whoever controls Papel Prensa, controls the printed word," Ms. Kirchner said, accusing the papers of maintaining a vertical monopoly. The moves are similar to actions by populist governments elsewhere in the region, including Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela, which have passed laws that critics say are aimed at muffling an independent media.
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    Asia Review
    Posted on August 24, 2010
    Now Australia gets a taste of hung parliaments
  • Video: Thailand to extradite 'arms dealer'                 
  • Video: Thailand's 'red shirts' regroup                       
  • Video: Hostages killed in Manila standoff               
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    Chinese Army Performs Michael Jackson
    Posted on August 23, 2010
    In the year since Michael Jackson passed away we've seen many different kinds of tributes, but you've never seen anything like this. Who knew that combining vintage footage of the Chinese totalitarian army performing a concert of sorts, and the song "Beat It" by the late King of Pop could be so hilarious? The guy playing the cymbals is enough to crack you up, but just wait until the lyrics start
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    • Today's comment
    Posted on August 23, 2010
    Stephen Pollard: The Liberals have a history of splitting
  • Peter McKay: Iraq's still suffering as Blair cashes in                                    
  • John Rentoul: Truth is, spotting a lie is pointless                           
  • EDUARD FREISLER: The Rolling Stones Concert That Set Prague Free                         
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    Americas Review
    Posted on August 23, 2010
    Miners trapped in Chile mine for 17 days are alive
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    Younger men are queuing up for a cougar to love
    Posted on August 22, 2010
    Older woman's allure is not just a Tinseltown fad
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