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Hungarian home births champion to move from house arrest to jail
Court increases acclaimed midwife Dr Agnes Géreb's punishment for 'negligent malpractice'When the police ring Dr Agnes Géreb's doorbell, late on a Thursday night, she quickly hunches forward on her...
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Chen Guangcheng: how China tried to lock down a blind man
The activist's family has been subject to a massive security operation, suffering from round-the clock surveillance, beatings and harassmentThe campaign to keep Chen Guangcheng locked away from the...
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Girls live chat: season one, episode three
Amanda Marcotte and Amanda Hess join us live to talk about two of the biggest topics in the new HBO show: sex and genderEvery episode of HBO's Girls so far has featured an awkward (read: raw, honest,...
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Organising against the enemies of internet freedom | Naomi Wolf
There are powerful state and corporate interests ranged against an open internet. We need a global movement to check themOn 24 April, a group of internet entrepreneurs sought to get the future into a...
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Obama hailed by Bill Clinton as Newt Gingrich prepares to say goodbye – live
Former president extols Obama's leadership in new ad as Newt Gingrich reportedly loses secret service protection• Live blogging now: Tom McCarthy12.28pm: This is the most patriotism figurines ever...
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DSK: New York sex scandal orchestrated by political opponents
Exclusive: Dominique Strauss-Kahn accuses enemies linked to Nicolas Sarkozy of destroying bid for French presidencyDSK interview: 'I didn't believe they'd go that far'(Click here to read the story in...
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This supremely Republican supreme court | Scott Lemieux
The Roberts court redefines judicial activism: it is pursuing a states' rights, anti-federal agenda, reckless of the constitutionThe 2008 elections represented a decisive repudiation of the policies of...
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Marco Rubio remains coy but Romney running mate speculation builds
Florida senator heads field after week where he joined Romney on the campaign trail and made major Washington speechFlorida senator Marco Rubio is consolidating his position as the leading candidate in...
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Labour must decide – is this government useless or evil? | Jonathan Freedland
Team Miliband needs a coherent line of attack in order to capitalise on coalition troubles. It may not be hard to findThe inner circle of Barack Obama's re-election campaign was grappling recently with...
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Chen Guangcheng saga shows fallacy of president's 'harmonious society' |...
The activist who escaped from house arrest is likely to be a continuing thorn in the Communist party's sideIt could hardly have come at a worse moment for a ruling Communist party whose public affairs...
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Workers at Apple contractor threaten suicide in wage dispute
Foxconn says dispute has ended after Chinese factory employees said they would jump off building in protestWorkers at a factory owned by Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturer, threatened to jump off the...
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George Zimmerman's bond will not be raised despite $200,000 from donors
Prosecutors had asked judge to reconsider amount of bond after it was revealed how much anonymous donors had sent inA Florida judge has rejected a prosecution request to raise the bond for George...
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Breaking the eurozone's self-defeating cycle of austerity | Mark Weisbrot
While a beleaguered IMF and ECB try to hold the line, voters all over Europe are rebelling against their punitive fiscal orthodoxyIt has become a ritual: every six months, I debate the IMF at their...
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EU states close to agreeing on greater local say in managing fisheries
Reforms could pave way for countries avoiding annual rows over fishing quotas by adopting a long-term approachProposals to give European Union member states a greater say over how their fisheries are...
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Everest, the grandaddy of walking adventures
In 1921 Sam Wollaston's grandfather was a member of the first Everest expedition. Nine decades on Sam finds less tweed and more Gore-Tex, but the same beauty on a trek taking in new eco-friendly...
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EU austerity pact: Franco-German conflict | Editorial
Ms Merkel is trying to make it a fait accompli just as support for it is waveringA wellhead of votes gushed open on Friday for the socialist candidate in next week's presidential election, François...
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Pakistan on the Brink by Ahmed Rashid – review
Fatima Bhutto questions a study in which power has replaced the people and western narratives elbow out the real storyAt the start of Pakistan on the Brink, Ahmed Rashid confesses that he didn't really...
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Sandstorm: Libya in the Time of Revolution by Lindsey Hilsum – review
Gaddafi's deposition and the events that led up to his bloody end are quite a storyMuammar Gaddafi's demise in Sirte last October was the ugliest of any of the dictators toppled by the uprisings of the...
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Author, author: Georgina Harding's journey through Romanian history
'What a challenge, to take a story through this time. If not to tell the whole history, then to take a line through it'Somewhere in Romania in 1988 I took refuge for an hour or so in an abandoned manor...
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Show and tell: the highs and lows of life as a documentary photographer
On the road for six months of the year, covering everything from the Iraq war to Agent Orange, Ed Kashi writes home to his wifeAleppo, Syria (above)Today in Aleppo, it's a brilliant, crisp sunny day,...
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