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Europe president uses 'state of union' speech to ask for more money
Posted on September 8, 2010
José Manuel Barroso has used his inaugural "state of the union" speech to demand new powers to raise money to fund the growing EU budget at a time of austerity and national spending cuts. Read more
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US immigration on decline, hysteria on the rise
Posted on September 8, 2010
A recent poll shows US illegal immigration fell nearly 65 percent in recent years. But anti-immigrant hysteria is still on the rise in America. Read more
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    • Europe's shame: the dictatorship of Belarus
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Mike Harris: I landed in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, last Friday to meet the journalist Oleg Bebenin and other civil society activists. On Monday I attended Oleg's funeral.  Read more
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    Theatre's love affair with ménages à trois
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    As Noël Coward’s Design for Living returns to the stage in a landmark production, Paul Taylor explores the simmering tensions of the ménage à trois and its irresistible allure for dramatists
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    Karzai Family Political Ties Shielded Bank in Afghanistan
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    KABUL, Afghanistan — In early 2009, as President Hamid Karzai scanned the landscape for potential partners to run in his re-election bid, he was approached from an unusual corner: a bank. Read more
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    Europe raids on file-sharing groups
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Police in 14 European countries crackdown on suspected online file-sharing network, with seven Swedish locations raided. Read more
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    Europe is becoming 'Islamised' warns Vatican official as he urges Christians to have more children
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    European Christians should have more children to stop the continent becoming 'Islamised', a senior Vatican official has suggested. Father Piero Gheddo said the low birth rate of indigenous Europeans combined with a huge wave of Muslim migrants with large families would 'sooner or later' see Europe dominated by Islam. Read more
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    Turning the pope into an Antichrist for atheists
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Brendan O'Neill: With just a week to go until Pope Benedict XVI arrives on British shores, the campaigning against his visit has become so shrill that soon only dogs will be able to hear it. And the great irony of this allegedly rationalist protest against the pope is that it is indulging in precisely the kind of demonology that the Catholic Church once excelled at.
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    James Murdoch invites David Miliband on dinner date
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    They are unlikely to lay on a private jet to whisk him to the Med, but David Miliband has been given the seal of approval by the Murdoch empire after being invited to dinner next week by the media baron's son James. Read more
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    Celebrity gagging orders see privacy cases soar
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Celebrities who apply for gagging orders to stop the media from publishing details about their private lives have helped to boost privacy cases by nearly 50 per cent this year, new figures seen by The Independent have shown. There are growing concerns among legal experts that the UK courts are increasingly granting high-profile figures so-called "gagging orders", preventing the media from reporting details of their lives, at the expense of free speech. Privacy cases from high-profile individuals made up 21 per cent of total privacy cases in 2010, compared with just 7 per cent in 2009. Read more
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    Today's Comments
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Simon Heffer: Labour must eat humble pie before it can return to power 
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    Bid to jail BNP leader Nick Griffin adjourned
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    The Commission for Equality and Human Rights has applied for the committal of Mr Griffin, deputy Simon Darby and party officer Tanya Lumby over allegations that the BNP has failed to remove potentially racist clauses from its constitution. Read more
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    BBC World Service broadcasts in Burma face axe
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    The BBC is locked in talks with the government over drastic cuts to the World Service budget which could force it to withdraw from Burma and several other countries. The BBC service in Burma is one of those identified by the government as under threat, according to a diplomatic source. "The Burma office is up for grabs. It is a question of costs. It is very expensive and has relatively few listeners. The 'human rights' argument doesn't hold much sway with the new Foreign Office." Read more
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    Le Carre on 'the Russification of Britain'
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Author John Le Carre is to publish a new thriller dealing with issues of money laundering, international espionage and the Russification of British life. He spoke to Justin Webb about the background of the book. Listen
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    DPP backs plans for three-tier murder charge system
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Calls for US-style murder charges to be introduced in England and Wales were backed by the Director of Public Prosecutions today. Read more
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    Robert Fisk: Relatives with blood on their hands
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Eight of the women who sought refuge in Hina Jilani's Lahore shelter died later at the hands of their families. In the second part of our investigation, the lawyer explains how authorities covered up
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    Too poor to retire: The over-55s with no pension, no savings, just massive debts
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Millions of the elderly and people approaching retirement have no pension, no savings and large debts, shocking research reveals today. The figures paint a worrying picture of a country with a ballooning population of elderly people who cannot afford to retire, with many surviving on an income of only £25 a day. Read more 
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    The Vice Chancellors scupper Vince
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    David Blackburn: Vince Cable won’t be slipping on his dancing shoes at this year’s Lib Dem conference. A draft of the Browne review into university funding is out today and apparently it does not mention a graduate contribution, Cable’s Lib-Dem friendly answer to tuition fees.
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    What next for Metgate?
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    David Allen Green: Why this story won't go away.
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    Is our tax system fit for purpose?
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Tax officials last night admitted mistakes could be found in the returns of millions more people on top of the 5.5 million they have already identified as having paid the wrong amount of tax. Read more
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    The Sports Report
    Posted on September 8, 2010
    Football:
  • Tennis:
  • Ryder Cup 2010:
  • Cricket:
  • Boxing:
  • F1:
  • Rugby Union:
  • Vuelta a España 2010:
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    Asia Review
    Posted on September 7, 2010
    Only in Japan, Real Men Go to a Hotel With Virtual Girlfriends. Read more 
  • Laos and the legacy of Vietnam. Read more               
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    Twenty years after Soviet humiliation, Russia seeks a return to Afghanistan
    Posted on September 7, 2010
    Foreign Minister offers help with reconstruction in bid to quell unrest on doorstep. By Mary Dejevsky in Moscow. Read more
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    Warnings against Quran burning plan
    Posted on September 7, 2010
    Florida church's plan to burn copies of Muslim holy book could endanger US troops' lives, commanders say.
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    • Today's Comments
    Posted on September 7, 2010
    Janet Daley: The BBC completely fails to understand the Tea Party movement
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