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 | Five gun attack dead named by MoD The five British soldiers killed in an attack by an Afghan police officer have been named by the Ministry of Defence. |
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| MPs' mortgage claims 'should end' MPs should be banned from claiming towards mortgages and employing relatives, a review of expenses rules says. | |
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| Rhys murderer stabs Mizen killer The teenager who shot dead Rhys Jones stabs the killer of former altar boy Jimmy Mizen in an attack at a Doncaster prison. | |
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| Cameron's 'never again' vow on EU Tory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum. | |
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| GM plans to cut 10,000 Opel jobs General Motors confirms that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs across European car unit Opel, including Vauxhall. | |
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| WORLD | |
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 | Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship' Israel's military says it has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons bound for Hezbollah. |
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| CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap An Italian judge convicts 23 Americans and two Italian secret agents over the CIA kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. | |
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| Intel in threats and bribery suit Intel is hit with an anti-competition lawsuit in the US, accused of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales. | |
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| AFRICA | |
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 | Pardoned Briton's joy at return Former British soldier Simon Mann, jailed for a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, says it is "wonderful" to be back in the UK. |
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| Banned Kenya official 'to sue US' Kenya's attorney general admits the US has imposed a travel ban on him, and threatens legal action for defamation. | |
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| SA 'to miss land reform deadline' South Africa will miss a 2014 deadline to redistribute a third of its farmland to the black majority, the government says. | |
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| AMERICAS | |
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 | CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap An Italian judge convicts 23 Americans and two Italian secret agents over the CIA kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. |
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| Democrats play down vote defeats US Democrats reject claims their defeat in two state polls reflects badly on President Barack Obama, a year after his election. | |
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| Ohio murder suspect denied bail A convicted rapist who has been charged with five counts of murder is denied bail after more human remains are found at his Ohio home. | |
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| ASIA-PACIFIC | |
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 | US diplomats meet Burmese leaders US envoys meet both Burma's PM and detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the highest level bilateral contact in over 10 years. |
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| Vietnam floods leave dozens dead About 90 people are now known to have died in severe flooding triggered by a tropical storm, Vietnamese officials say. | |
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| Japan 'has no time' to meet US Japan says plans for a meeting between its foreign minister and US secretary of state are scrapped for lack of time. | |
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| EUROPE | |
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| CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap An Italian judge convicts 23 Americans and two Italian secret agents over the CIA kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in 2003. |
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| GM plans to cut 10,000 Opel jobs General Motors confirms that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs across European car unit Opel, including Vauxhall. | |
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| Cameron's 'never again' vow on EU Tory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum. | |
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| MIDDLE EAST | |
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| Israelis 'seize Iran arms ship' Israel's military says it has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons bound for Hezbollah. |
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| Iran police clash with protesters Police clash with opposition supporters during a rally in the Iranian capital, Tehran, witnesses and state media say. | |
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| UN debates divisive Gaza report The UN general assembly begins debating a resolution on a controversial report into alleged war crimes by Israel and Hamas. | |
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| SOUTH ASIA | |
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 | Taliban link to shootings probed The Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to kill five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown says. |
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| Afghan election victory 'illegal' Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says Hamid Karzai's re-election 'has no legal basis'. | |
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| Gold hits new high on India deal The price of gold reaches an all-time high after a large sale of the precious commodity by the International Monetary Fund to India. | |
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| UK | |
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| Five gun attack dead named by MoD The five British soldiers killed in an attack by an Afghan police officer have been named by the Ministry of Defence. |
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| Cameron's 'never again' vow on EU Tory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum. | |
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| Rhys murderer stabs Mizen killer The teenager who shot dead Rhys Jones stabs the killer of former altar boy Jimmy Mizen in an attack at a Doncaster prison. | |
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| ENGLAND | |
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 | Rhys murderer stabs Mizen killer The teenager who shot dead Rhys Jones stabs the killer of former altar boy Jimmy Mizen in an attack at a Doncaster prison. |
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| Girl found in field 'smothered' A second post-mortem reveals a teenage girl found dead in a field in County Durham was smothered. | |
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| Store bans staff wearing poppies War veterans express their fury at a toiletries store in Wigan which has banned its members of staff from wearing poppies. | |
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| NORTHERN IRELAND | |
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 | Ex-IRA men 'helping dissidents' Some former PIRA members are helping dissident efforts to wreck the peace process, the paramilitary watchdog says. |
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| Pensioner dies after road crash An 88-year-old man dies in hospital a week after his car is involved in a three vehicle collision in Londonderry. | |
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| Heating firm in downturn lay-offs The Glen Electric plant in Newry, which makes convector and panel heaters, is to lay-off 40 employees. | |
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| SCOTLAND | |
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 | Amateur 'stunned' after £1m find An Iron Age treasure hoard unearthed by a metal-detecting enthusiast in Stirlingshire is unveiled. |
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| Botulism baby serious in hospital A baby from Fife is being treated in an Edinburgh hospital after contracting the rare paralytic illness, botulism. | |
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| East Coast hand-back day 'agreed' The East Coast Main Line is to be taken over by a publicly owned company next month, the RMT union says. | |
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| WALES | |
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 | Smoke-free hospital grounds idea The ban on smoking in public could be extended to all hospital grounds in Wales, the health minister confirms. |
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| Ship refit brings dock 300 jobs A contract to refit a cruise liner creates 300 temporary jobs at a dry dock which will also be regenerated. | |
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| Colleague 'didn't kill in temper' A man accused of strangling a woman and burying her body in a field denies killing her after she asked him to leave his wife. | |
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| POLITICS | |
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 | Cameron's 'never again' vow on EU Tory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum. |
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| MPs' mortgage claims 'should end' MPs should be banned from claiming towards mortgages and employing relatives, a review of expenses rules says. | |
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| Afghan war 'controls immigration' Removing troops from Afghanistan would "significantly increase" the number of asylum seekers in the UK, a minister says. | |
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| BUSINESS | |
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 | GM plans to cut 10,000 Opel jobs General Motors confirms that it plans to cut 10,000 jobs across European car unit Opel, including Vauxhall. |
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| Intel in threats and bribery suit Intel is hit with an anti-competition lawsuit in the US, accused of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales. | |
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| Shoppers' rights 'under threat' UK shoppers' rights to reject faulty goods could be weakened under new European rules, two Law Commissions say. | |
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| ENTERTAINMENT | |
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 | Robbie confirms Take That reunion Pop star Robbie Williams says there are plans for him to perform with Take That again some time in the future. |
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| Keisha denies Sugababes reunion The singer's manager says she definitely won't be getting the original Sugababes line up back together despite rumours of a reunion. | |
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| EMI sues Beatles download website Record company EMI is suing a US website which it says is offering unauthorised downloads of The Beatles' albums for sale. | |
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| SCIENCE/NATURE | |
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 | Major quakes could be aftershocks Many earthquakes may be aftershocks of large quakes that occurred hundreds of years ago, say scientists. |
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| Messenger spies iron on Mercury The Nasa Messenger probe's observations of Mercury show the planet is even more of an "iron planet" than scientists thought. | |
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| Light down a wire for solar power A modification to commercial optical fibre could be a promising route to solar power without large arrays, say researchers. | |
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| TECHNOLOGY | |
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 | Intel in threats and bribery suit Intel is hit with an anti-competition lawsuit in the US, accused of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales. |
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| EMI sues Beatles download website Record company EMI is suing a US website which it says is offering unauthorised downloads of The Beatles' albums for sale. | |
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| Microsoft reveals new-look MSN Microsoft has announced a major redesign of its MSN.com web portal, designed to drive traffic to search engine Bing. | |
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| HEALTH | |
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 | Nutt vows to set up new drug body The drugs adviser controversially sacked by the government has vowed to establish a new scientific committee if the current advisory body disbands. |
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| Doctor admits baby 'may interact' A doctor admits a baby in a "right-to-life" row may be able to interact - but says his future remains tragic. | |
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| Tributes paid to TB cure doctor The man who pioneered life-saving treatment for tuberculosis sufferers dies in Edinburgh at the age of 97. | |
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| EDUCATION | |
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 | State school qualification ban An international GCSE, used by independent schools, will not be approved for use in state schools. |
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| Students still waiting for loans Thousands of students in England are still caught up in delays to the delivery of loans, according to the latest figures. | |
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| Universities 'worth £59bn to UK' Universities in the UK generate £59bn and 650,000 full-time jobs, says a report into their economic significance. | |
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| 1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary Soviet troops pour into the city in a massive dawn offensive in repsonse to a national uprising led by Prime Minister Imre Nagy. | |||
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| 1995: Israeli PM shot dead The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. | |||
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| 1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran Militant Islamic students in Iran storm the US embassy in Tehran taking 90 people hostage. | |||
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