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Africa Review
Posted on September 3, 2010
Benin: Thousands left penniless after collapse of Ponzi scheme
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on September 3, 2010
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    Tony Blair has rewritten history – without modesty or shame
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    If he wasn't in charge of the country when it all started to go wrong, then who was, asks Jeff Randall.
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    Mozambique says 7 killed in riots, calm restored
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    MAPUTO (Reuters) - Mozambique's capital Maputo got back to work on Friday after two days of rioting, triggered by a sharp hike in bread prices, which the government said left seven dead, 288 injured and millions of dollars of damage.
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    Pakistan's rich 'diverted floods to save their land'
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    A senior Pakistan diplomat has accused "powerful" figures of diverting floodwaters into unprotected areas to save their own land.
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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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    • Mexico army kills dozens of drug suspects
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Soldiers shoot dead suspected drug cartel members near US border.
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    Does it matter who William Hague shares a hotel room with?
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Is it any of our business? Or are politicians' lives fair game?
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    School lotteries 'fail to cut social segregation'
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    Controversial admissions lotteries established to break the middle-class stranglehold on good schools are failing, according to a study.
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    'I gave too much away': David Blunkett's startling admission on UK-U.S. extradition treaty
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    David Blunkett, the Cabinet minister who signed Labour's controversial Extradition Act, admitted yesterday that he may have 'given too much away' to the Americans. The Act, which opponents say is biased against British citizens, is being used to extradite Gary McKinnon, who has Asperger's, for computer hacking.
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    Phone-hacking row returns to haunt Cameron's chief spin doctor
    Posted on September 3, 2010
    The Prime Minister's media adviser Andy Coulson faces being summoned to court to give evidence over further allegations of phone-hacking by reporters from the News of the World during the time he was editing the newspaper.
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    Britain's Secret Slaves
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Channel4 Video: Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves
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    Brown’s plan for the future
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Mr Blair’s former breathless lover will form the fully staffed Gordon and Sarah Brown Foundation, paid for by lucrative speaking engagements, which the Spectator revealed some weeks ago. He has accepted three pro-bono appointments - joining Queen Rania of Jordan’s Global Campaign for Education, working on a new programme to bring the internet to Africa and joining the board of Tim Berners Lee's World Wide Web Foundation. He will also continue to write on the plight of the world’s poor.
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    UK police 'among the world's worst'
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Britain's police forces are among the least effective in the developed world, according to new research which blames the decline on the breakdown of the traditional family and the disappearance of the beat bobby. The United States, France and Germany have all been more successful at combating crime than Britain, says the study carried out by right-wing think tank Civitas. The claims provoked outrage last night among chief constables and criminologists.
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    Never mind the leadership contest — look at me!
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Never mind his claim about seeing the queen washing dishes after a barbecue at Balmoral. Forget his description of John Prescott’s affair as a ‘silly sex scandal’. Put to the back of your mind his ‘drink problem’. (Half a bottle of wine a night? Quick, someone call AA!) No, the really shocking thing about Tony Blair’s memoirs is that they exist at all, that all this personal crap, all his griping, grimacing and schoolgirl-style hatred of certain Labour colleagues, has been vomited into the public arena at precisely a time when Labour is trying to select a new leader. Such a teenage elevation of the needs of the self above the needs of one’s party speaks volumes about the end of politics and its replacement by the tyranny of therapy.
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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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    • Today's Comments
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Leading article: Blair's flawed and self-serving analysis
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    Flying the flag, faking the news
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    John Pilger: Loud noises from Washington about a US pull-out from Iraq are a poor disguise for America’s determination to keep waging war. And the same sort of spin is at work here in Britain 
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    • Grief Across Latin America for Migrant Killings
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    AGUA CALIENTE, Guatemala — He was warned the journey north would be hard, so Gilmar Morales beefed up on eggs and sausage, bought some ham sandwiches from the bodega across the street, told his mother he loved her and set off with two other relatives on a path well-traveled by young people here in one of Latin America’s poorest countries.
  • 72 dead migrants found in Mexico tip of iceberg                              
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    • EU keen to strike deal with Muammar Gaddafi on immigration
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The European Union is keen to strike a pact with Muammar Gaddafi to stem the flow of immigrants across the Mediterranean, officials said today, after the Libyan leader put a price tag of €5bn (£4.1bn) a year on the deal.
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    Why Sarkozy went to war on the Roma
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The President's crackdown was meant to strengthen his grip on power, but could split his government instead
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    • Obama's high-stakes gamble on peace deal that eluded predecessors
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    Now it's his turn. After the elder George Bush, Bill Clinton and George Bush the younger, Barack Obama has became the fourth consecutive American president to seek international diplomacy's hitherto impossible prize: Israeli-Palestinian peace.
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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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    Hague denies rumour he is gay – but special adviser steps down
    Posted on September 2, 2010
    The Foreign Secretary, William Hague, was forced to issue an extraordinary public statement yesterday denying that he was gay, after his special adviser and long-term friend resigned over "untrue and malicious" rumours about the relationship between the two men.
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