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/ 7 September 2009
As many as 320 000 people in the north of the country have been displaced by the LRA as it extends its abduction and terror raids.
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/ 9 November 2008
The first priority for the new president, naturally, will be the court. Not the Supreme Court, but the basketball court.
The race to exploit the last unexplored wildernesses on Earth is intensifying. Survey ships have been dispatched across the oceans, and marine consultants hired. Submersibles are being lowered into inky depths to record underwater contours and take sedimentary samples. Politicians around the globe, waving their countries’ flags, have boasted about securing oil, gas and mineral resources for future generations.
Bono may be celebrated for browbeating world leaders into funding debt relief for developing countries, but his Irish rock band is facing criticism for switching its financial affairs overseas to avoid paying higher taxes. Irish politicians have expressed surprise at U2’s decision to move part of its multimillion-dollar operation from Ireland to Amsterdam.
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/ 28 November 2005
More than a third of the world’s population lacks access to adequate sanitation, according to a survey by the British charity WaterAid. In a report marking World Toilet Day on November 19, the organisation has compiled an international ”bogroll of dishonour”, designed to shame countries into improving facilities.
Faria Alam, the secretary propelled into tabloid infamy through her affair with the England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson and the Football Association’s chief executive Mark Palios, this week claimed she had been sexually harassed by a third official. Alam also told the tribunal that the England manager urged her to deny they had had an affair when rumours first emerged.
A high school in Suffolk, eastern England, has become the first in Britain to ban girls from wearing skirts and order them to switch to uniforms with long trousers. The decision by Kesgrave High School, near Ipswich, was reached after warnings were ignored and hemlines crept up to ‘in-appropriate†levels. The new policy will come […]
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/ 13 February 2004
A Middle East-based British businessman has emerged as a key suspect in a secret network supplying Libya, Iran and North Korea with equipment to build nuclear bombs. Speaking for the first time this week, Paul Griffin denied that his company played any part in shipping prohibited material from the Far East.
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/ 21 November 2003
The November 15 suicide bombing in Istanbul fits clearly into the pattern of al-Qaeda’s targeting of Jewish interests, as well as its determination to punish the United States’s allies for supporting the invasion of Iraq, counter-terrorism experts said this week.
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/ 7 November 2003
The Church of England has an ”unhealthy obsession” with sexual sin, a panel of bishops suggested this week in a document exploring cross-dressing, bisexuality, gay marriage and homosexual clergy. The guide, Some Issues in Human Sexuality, was published in the wake of the consecration in the United States of Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop.