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With deep divisions between its French and Dutch speakers, not to mention a ludicrously complex administrative system, it's a wonder Belgium has stayed united for so long. Now, after 156 days without a national government, the country is heading for meltd..
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Their eyes met across a crowded room. The party chatter ebbed away, and the music slowed. That first lovers' glaze is the staple of the romantic novelist, and scientists believe they have now revealed the true nature of its true attractive power.
Accor..
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As reported in the Guardian, last Thursday a 26-year-old Cheltenham man was arrested and the site, tv-links.co.uk, was closed . According to the Gloucester police, the arrest was carried out for alleged violations of Section 92 of the Trade Marks Act...
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World oil production has already peaked and will fall by half as soon as 2030, according to a report which also warns that extreme shortages of fossil fuels will lead to wars and social breakdown.
The German-based Energy Watch Group will release its st..
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Guardian Unlimited
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Seizure would allow huge expansion of settlements. Move seen as rush to make changes before US summit.
The Israeli army has ordered the seizure of Palestinian land surrounding four West Bank villages apparently in order to hugely expand settlements aro..
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Diplomatic relations between Britain and the United States over Iran are under increasing strain after Gordon Brown's special security adviser warned that American claims about Tehran's military capability should be taken 'with a pinch of salt'.
As a n..
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Zimbabwe's bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed following the seizure of white-owned farms.
The agricultural ministry announceme..
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George Bush was castigated by European diplomats and found himself isolated yesterday after a special conference on climate change ended without any progress.
European ministers, diplomats and officials attending the Washington conference were scathing..
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Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays.
The team will examine rare and unread fragments of the scrolls, which are believed to shed light on how the texts came to be writt..
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Russia today joined the chorus of concern at the possibility of war in Iran while conflicts continued in Iraq and Afghanistan.
At a news briefing in Moscow, the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said: "We are worried by reports that there is ser..
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Women have been debating whether lad mags are sexist for so long that the average media studies sixth-former could probably have scripted most of yesterday's discussion on Radio 4. One of the genre's leading titles, Nuts, launched its own cable TV channel..
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Six years after 9/11, the American public have still not been provided with a full and truthful account of the single greatest terror attack in US history.
What they got was a turkey. The 9/11 Commission was hamstrung by official obstruction. It never..
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One of the downsides of being known for writing a book about my sex life is that people tend to make certain assumptions. Many conclude that I must be up for hopping into bed with any bloke who offers himself as a sexual candidate. The other frequent assu..
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A British man who was held in Guantánamo Bay has begun a civil action against MI5 and MI6 over the tactics that they use to gather intelligence.
The suit has been brought by Tarek Dergoul, 29, who claims he was repeatedly tortured while he was held by..
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Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, vowed yesterday she would go 'back to basics' and invoke her late father's name to win her way back into power in her country.
Bhutto, who was exiled from Pakistan eight years ago after two stints..
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Television sets and other domestic appliances will be fitted with special devices to switch off standby power as part of a radical plan to cut wasteful use of electricity, a special Conservative report will recommend this week.
In an attempt to burnish..
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Last week, a trade union badly damaged the legitimacy of collective action - and achieved nothing. By going on strike after having won almost all its demands, the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers closed down the London Underground fo..
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Money urgently needed to reduce the vast backlog of inquests into soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan has not been provided by the government, raising fresh fears that existing delays will grow longer.
Despite pledges to cut the time military famil..
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"Closing!" A woman prison officer bellows out the word, her arms stretched across the doorway. She presses a button and a grate of thick iron bars slides shut with a thud. I'm inside now. It's impossible not to be overcome by a sense of deja vu. You've be..
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The government bowed last night to the outcry over its 'insulting' compensation plans for a young paratrooper horrifically injured in Afghanistan.
The Ministry of Defence has signalled for the first time that it will review the case of 23-year-old Lanc..
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