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Another blogger hacked to death in Bangladesh

Another blogger was hacked to death in Bangladesh’s capital on Monday, with police arresting two suspects after the latest attack targeting independent writers. Three men attacked Washiqur Rahman, 27, near his home in the morning, just weeks after an American

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ExxonMobil tells the Guardian where to stick it

The Guardian has run a piece attacking ExxonMobil for its stubborn, selfish refusal to stop being an oil business. Here’s how the oil giant responded when asked for a quote: “ExxonMobil will not respond to Guardian inquiries because of its

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Memorial for Soldier Murdered by Islamists

Fusilier Lee Rigby, drummer and machine gunner of the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers murdered in broad daylight in South-East London by a pair of Islamist terrorists has been honoured in his home town with a bronze memorial. Standing in the Middleton

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UK Runs Largest Air-Defence War Game Since Cold War

The 30-aircraft exercise comes amid a backdrop of an increasingly belligerent Russia, but is just as much a message to Whitehall as it is the Kremlin. Whoever wins the forthcoming British general election will have the casting vote over how

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Revealed: Bin Laden’s Secret Climate Change Plan

Letters seized from the compound of executed terror leader Osama bin Laden have revealed the deeply prosaic bureaucracy of running a global terror group, and the concern shared by senior members over climate change. Even as American drone strikes were

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Officials: Iran Nuke Talks Solving Some Issues, Not Others

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Iran may accept new constraints to its uranium enrichment program at nuclear talks but is pushing back on how long it must accept limits on technology it could use to make nuclear arms, Western officials told

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British Opera Honours 9/11 Victims

A new small British opera, Between Worlds, is attempting to dramatize what it was like for victims in the World Trade Center on 9/11. Composer Tansy Davies and librettist Nick Drake have collaborated on a work Drake calls “a requiem

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EU Crackdown on Tax-Avoidance Spells Trouble for Britain

Something went by unnoticed in the press – an EU crackdown on sweetheart tax deals was announced in a decision by the EU’s Council of Ministers. While there is certainly a public interest to see multinationals pay their fair share, the fact

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German pilot visited glider field near crash site as a child

SISTERON, France (AP) — A member of a gliding club in the French Alps says the German co-pilot accused of crashing a passenger plane nearby frequented the club as a child with his parents. Francis Kefer, a member of the

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Nigerians turn out en masse for critical presidential vote

ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerians are turning out en masse to vote in a presidential election that analysts say is too close to call. Good-humored voters smiled when electoral officials arrived late at many polling stations where registration was to

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Italian court throws out Knox conviction once and for all

ROME (AP) — Amanda Knox, who maintained that she and her former Italian boyfriend were innocent in her British roommate’s murder through multiple trials and nearly four years in jail, was vindicated Friday when Italy’s highest court threw out their

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Shock: Argentina Accuses Britain of ‘Cheap Nationalism’

After the announcement this week that Britain would be boosting the defence of the Falkland Islands, senior figures in the Argentine government have protested their innocence in the matter, and have insisted the move was purely for electoral purposes. Speaking