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Rare minerals dearth threatens global renewables industry
China's near-exclusive access to terbium and yttrium sent prices soaring in 2011, potentially hobbling clean energy industryShortages of a handful of rare minerals could slow the future growth of the...
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Syria, Egypt, Libya and Middle East unrest - live updates
• UN to discuss draft Syria resolution • Veto-wielding Russia says draft remains 'unacceptable'• Egypt protesters take to Tahrir for 'second Friday of rage'• Read the latest summary4.52pm: Night has...
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Ronald Reagan: conventional rebel whose spirit inhabits the GOP
A charming, likeable small-town boy with a strong sense of right and wrong – ordinary Americans saw themselves in the Gipper. No wonder Newt Gingrich is quick to invoke this Republican heroWhy does the...
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Palestinian bookshop owner celebrates Jerusalem residency ruling
Munther Fahmi's campaign to be allowed to stay in his birth city was backed by eminent literary figuresThe Palestinian owner of an iconic Jerusalem bookshop patronised by politicians, diplomats,...
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Guardian Books podcast: Reading the Arab spring
As Egypt celebrates the first anniversary of the Tahrir Square demonstrations, we look to the literature coming out of the Arab world. Ahdaf Soueif explains what it is like to live in Tahrir Square,...
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Davos 2012: All the action from day three of the World Economic Forum
World leaders continue to debate capitalism, the eurozone, and Iran at a snowy Davos• Day two at Davos, as it happened• Day one at Davos, as it happened4.58pm: Our economics editor, Larry Elliott, has...
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Eurozone crisis live: Spanish unemployment tops 5m
• Almost one in four now out of work in eurozone's fourth largest economy• Talks resume in Athens over crucial bond swap deal• Dallara and Papadamos meet tonight• Draghi says €489bn pre-Christmas...
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Florida primary campaign – live
Live coverage as Mitt Romney presses home his debate advantage and Newt Gingrich tries to kickstart his campaign.• Live blogging now: Matt Wells12.13pm: Time for some self promotion. Michael White, who...
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Arab League suspends Syria mission
Around 100 observers will remain in country but will not undertake new missions, statement saysThe Arab League has suspended its monitoring mission in Syria and criticised President Bashar al-Assad's...
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Romney attacks Gingrich over ethics violation
GOP hopeful's video, part of one of the most expensive campaigns ever, simply shows a 1997 NBC news reportRepublican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released a new ad on Saturday resurrecting old...
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Europe's lost generation: how it feels to be young and struggling in the EU
Viola Caon left her Italian home to find work. Now she returns to see how her former classmates are faring… and in the week that shocking figures showed how badly Europe's youth is being hit by the...
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Davos leaders act on young jobless
Summit to debate plans to spend billions on continent-wide youth job schemes in bid to reverse upward trendPlans to commit €22bn to tackling the scourge of youth unemployment across Europe will be...
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Newt Gingrich gets behind Israel, but fails to impress Florida's Jewish voters
Republican hopeful's support for Middle Eastern state is an attempt to court the evangelical Christian audienceNewt Gingrich threw it all out there: the contentious claim that the Palestinians are a...
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The Maryland Polar Bear Plunge - in pictures
Thousands of people braved the cold waters of Chesapeake Bay during the annual event at Sandy Point state park
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Your feminism fails to convince, Mr Vaizey | Mariella Frostrup
The culture minister says he's happy to broker meetings with the BBC for Nadine Dorries. Why doesn't he go himself?Addressing the Oxford Media Convention, the culture secretary, Ed Vaizey, referred to...
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Alma telescope glimpses space's mysteries from on top of the world
Alma, a super-sensitive radio telescope 5,000m above sea level in Chile, will detect a new galaxy every three minutesSpend a few days with astronomers at the world's most sophisticated telescopes in...
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Out of Afghanistan: incredible stories of the boys who walked to Europe
The country is so dangerous it's no wonder so many leave, travelling alone across the Middle East in search of a new lifeBehind the security bars of a spartan, white-tiled room, 25 youths are arranging...
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Save West Africa from the drugs barons | Kofi Annan
Trafficking is endangering the fragile democracies of this vulnerable regionOver the last decade, West Africa has made encouraging progress. Violent conflicts that had blighted the region for many...
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Tobacco giant JTI quizzed over shipment to Syrian tycoon 'bankrolling Assad's...
Firm behind leading UK brands confirms that EU fraud agency is investigating link to tyrant's cousin Rami MakhloufA tobacco giant behind three of the UK's leading brands is under investigation after...
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Salman Rushdie has found peace – but the Satanic Verses 'affair' won't go away
The terror of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa has faded but the challenge it posed to artistic freedom has not, as a brush with the Indian authorities has shownFor Salman Rushdie, the "affair" is over. When...
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