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Zuma portrait court case reopens South Africa's wounds from apartheid era
To its supporters, the painting is about free expression but to the ANC, it is a violation of the president's dignity – and racistOne of the most heated debates in South Africa's recent political...
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Theresa May records video in support of gay marriage – video
Home secretary becomes most senior politician to take part in Out4Marriage campaign
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Country diary: Heathland, West Sussex: The shy, retiring nature of a...
Heathland, West Sussex: Male insects raise and rub their forewings on warm, early summer evenings to produce a soothing love songFinally, it is a still, warm evening. I follow the footpath across the...
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Some prisoners have earned the right to vote, so let them | Jonathan Aitken
Giving only prisoners released on temporary licence the vote may placate MPs and avert a costly clash with EuropeThe latest round of the row on votes for prisoners is much ado about nothing for the...
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What really lies behind the 'war on women' | Naomi Wolf
It would be a mistake to see these attacks as simply a backlash against women. This is about empire struggling for social controlAre women suddenly running rampant in the streets by the millions,...
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A week in radio: Victoria Derbyshire visits an abortion clinic
Derbyshire pressed home tricky questions in following what happens in an average day at the clinicWhen radio broaches the issue of abortion, it's mostly, inevitably, about strongly held views on either...
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Europe must take a leap out of the quagmire | Christine Ockrent
There is no Merkellande or Frangela, but François Hollande has shown good political acumen on the eurozone crisisIt may be an effect of belated spring sunshine, but there are reasons to feel optimistic...
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Iranian nuclear talks: stuck in a sandstorm | Editorial
With a sandstorm swirling around them and closing the airport, the six-party talks with Iran in Baghdad had every incentive to get a peace process worth talking about back on trackWith a sandstorm...
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Bradley Manning military trial: group petitions for a more open court
Coalition says WikiLeaks suspect's trial is being conducted amid far more secrecy than the alleged 9/11 plotters in GuantanamoThe military trial of the WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning is being...
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Canada student protests erupt into political crisis with mass arrests
More than 500 people were arrested in Montreal on Wednesday night as protestors defied controversial new law Bill 78• Collected commentary on the protests from around the webProtests that began in...
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Paul Fussell, the critic who fought the cant of military sacrifice | Nicolaus...
His classic study, The Great War and Modern Memory, was rooted in his own bitter experience of loss and waste in combatPaul Fussell, who died on Wednesday at the age of 88, was the classic public...
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US cuts Pakistan's aid in protest at jail for doctor who helped find Bin Laden
Senate committee votes to slash Pakistan's aid by $1m for each of the years Shakil Afridi, who ran fake CIA vaccine, is in prisonA US senate committee has voted to cut Pakistan's aid by $1m for each of...
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Sadly Barack Obama, like Mitt Romney, is an apologist for the 1% | Mehdi Hasan
It may be to a lesser extend than the Republican candidate, but the US president is a frontman for financial interestsPoor Mitt Romney. Despite defeating a weird and wacky line-up of candidates in a...
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Free Men – review
Free Men takes the form of a semi-fictionalised thriller about the role of North Africans in the French ResistanceThere are gaps to be filled in second-world-war history, and this is one: the role of...
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Romney campaigns on education in Pennsylvania - US politics live
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney takes his campaign to a charter school in Philadelphia4.23pm: And finally, via BuzzFeed Politics (and everyone else in the universe):Worst. Fundraising....
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United Nations chief calls Rio summit negotiations 'painfully slow'
Ban Ki-moon and other United Nations officials think Rio+20 is unlikely to replicate breakthroughs of 1992 global summitThe United Nations chief, Ban Ki-moon, held out little hope on Thursday of an...
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Guardian diary
Stop the Games! The security staff can't get through the Olympic traffic jams. But the beach volleyball show will go on• Don't panic, but the Olympics may have to be cancelled. The Diary has been given...
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Facebook banker Morgan Stanley tries to calm brokers' fears after IPO
Bank to adjust thousands of share trades from last week's IPO to ensure no investor pays more than $43 a shareFacebook banker Morgan Stanley is preparing to adjust thousands of share trades from last...
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The other US-Afghan alliance in Chicago | Amy Goodman
While generals and heads of state congratulated themselves at the Nato summit, peace protesters enacted real reconciliationGeneral John Allen, the US commander in Afghanistan, spoke Wednesday at the...
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Israel offers compensation to Mavi Marmara flotilla raid victims
£4m paid to Jewish foundation in Turkey, which will distribute the money to the victims and their familiesThe Israeli government has offered £4m in compensation to the families of Turkish activists...
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