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  Victims win torture test case in UK: The British Home Office has been ordered by the high court to pay compensation to four torture victims, who were imprope...
  UKIP surges to 2 points behind Tories: The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has just two points to put behind the ruling Conservative Party in terms of popularity...
  
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  Deadly bombings continue across Iraq: At least 20 people killed and scores injured in blasts in capital and beyond amid escalating sectarian violence.
  Two key candidates barred from Iran election: Ex-president Hashemi Rafsanjani and an ally of President Ahmadinejad disqualified from running in presidential polls.
  
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  Dispatch #1 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria...: “When can we go back?” This plaintive question of refugees since time immemorial was asked again of Nobel Peace L...
  Dispatch #2 from the Mussalaha Delegation to Syria: As I begin to compose this, I hear what sounds like artillery and rocket fire in the distance, mixed with occasional sma...
  
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  Ecuador's President Attacks US Over Press Fre...: Critics say Correa is creating a pro-government media system; Correa says there is a fundamental contradiction with corp...
  JP Morgan/Chase Sharehoders Meeting to Vote on Dem...: Jennifer Taub: Fight over resolution making CEO Dimon give up board chairman's job shows what an oxymoron "shareholder d...
  
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  Matt Toner: New Democrats need the courage to go w...: Commentary »If we allow Christy Clark to swan into the Legislature unchallenged, then we have been defeated.Matt T...
  International Day Against Homophobia Breakfast 201...: LGBT »The name Jason Collins was on the lips of several speakers at the 2013 International Day Against Homophobia...
  
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  Why Austerity Kills: From Greece to U.S., Cripplin...: In their new book, "The Body Economic: Why Austerity Kills," economist David Stuckler and physician Sanjay Basu examine...
  "The Unimaginable Has Happened": Massive...: Dozens have been killed and more than 200 wounded in a devastating tornado in Oklahoma. The storm tore through the Oklah...
  
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  The Wealth of Commons: A World Beyond Market and S...: Book review: Far from being a 'tragedy' the commons offers genuine solutions to climate change and other environmental p...
  Nepalese workers poisoned by local and global poll...: Driven from their farms by climate change, brickworkers near luxurious Kathmandu are dying slowly in an air pollution di...
  
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  Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Exposes Dangers o...: The explosion that killed 14 at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas in April 2013 raises new concerns over OSHA funding an...
  Screen Propaganda, Hollywood and the CIA: Black Hawk Down, Zero Dark Thirty and Argo, those are only a few major recent productions showing how today’s movie in...
  
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  Ontario election off the table: NDP agrees to supp...: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath held a...
  Action needed to stop 'climate deniers'...: The global warming deniers are at it again, and it is high time that the environmental movement in Canada and the United...
  
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  Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response): Militarism and Sports – Part II (A Response) Tyler Shipley A couple of years ago, I wrote a short article expressing m...
  Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call): Militarism and Sports – Part I (A Call) Peter Miller and Daniel Lyder An oft-repeated opinion in the sports media...