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Pakistan gunmen kill eight Shia Muslims
Attackers on motorcycle stage two sectarian attacks in south-western city of Quetta, leaving eight people deadPolice say gunmen riding on a motorcycle have killed eight Shia Muslims in two sectarian...
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Syrian forces shell central Homs, breaking ceasefire, activists claim
Human rights group says Syrian regime has started bombing for first time since ceasefire began on Thursday, injuring severalSyrian forces shelled two central districts in the battered city of Homs...
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Why Egypt embraces Edward Albee | Tanjil Rashid
The dramatist's works attract Arab audiences not in spite of their distinctly American identity, but because of itIt may seem odd that when Egypt's military rulers are cracking down on American NGOs...
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US agents sent home for 'misconduct'
Members of president's security detail recalled from Cartagena following claims of heavy drinking and use of prostitutesThe US secret service, the elite suit and earpiece-wearing bodyguard unit...
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UN warning as monitors prepare to go to Syria
Unarmed observers ready to fly to Damascus within hours after security council authorises deploymentThe UN security council authorised the deployment of the first batch of 30 unarmed UN monitors to...
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The Sex Myth: Why Everything We're Told is Wrong by Brooke Magnanti – review
The left and right are both to blame for the lies surrounding sexThere are so many myths and misunderstandings surrounding sex that I was puzzled as to which one warranted a whole book. It turns out...
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'How we put together an entire magazine in just 24 hours'
Sara Eileen Hames and a group of New York-based creatives challenged themselves to put together a publication from start to finish in a single dayAt the first editorial meeting of twenty-four magazine,...
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The British Council brings more shame on us | Nick Cohen
All authors are welcome to the London Book Fair… as long as they don't upset the Chinese'It's time, Chinese people! It's time," wrote the dissident Zhu Yufu in a poem he incautiously put online. "The...
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'Postnatally depressed' dads? Give me a break | Barbara Ellen
Can't females have anything just for themselves, without men barging in, not even a foul debilitating condition directly related to the physical act of pregnancy and childbirth?One notices more talk of...
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The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris – review
New Atheist Sam Harris attempts to apply science to morality in his latest book – with mixed resultsSam Harris is the most pugnacious of the New Atheists, a movement he helped launch with The End of...
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Beyond the scandal lies a crisis at the heart of China's legitimacy | Will...
A Chinese Spring is inevitable if the party leadership doesn't reform itselfThe house detention of top communist official Bo Xilai, until recently China's most popular politician, now stripped of his...
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Chinese police seek blogger who revealed death of Neil Heywood
Journalist defends role in telling the truth as details emerge of British consular suspicions about Neil Heywood's deathThe Chinese reporter who first revealed Neil Heywood's death on his microblog –...
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Love and other animals
Whatever your species, sexual rejection can be a prickly issueHumans place a huge emphasis on how often they have sex. Happy couples supposedly practice a frequent sensual routine, and the more...
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Testing the water in Albania
Staggering scenery, deserted landscapes – crossing Lake Koman in northern Albania provides an insight into a country that's still off the tourist radarThe surface of the lake is perfectly still. The...
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Twitching with the urban birder
David Lindo is an "urban birder", and he wants you to look up. From pipits to ospreys, Lindo can show you the unobserved wildlife lighting up Britain's city skiesWhen I first meet David Lindo, at dawn...
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The Gospel of Us – review
I dislike demotic, populist renderings of the Bible such as this modernised Passion play in which Michael Sheen as "the Teacher" addresses God (a figure standing atop some council estate scaffolding)...
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UK defence firms fear austerity drive will shoot down export revival
Companies such as BAE Systems worry that coalition cuts could wreck attempts to persuade foreign powers to buy their productsOnly an eagle-eyed observer can spot what makes the Mantis aircraft so...
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Britain finds a new voice for women in campaign against sexualisation
Anna van Heeswijk is the new chief of Object, the women's group that made such an impact at the Leveson inquiry over the Sun's Page Three and which is injecting energy into feminismNo one was surprised...
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UK aid helps to fund forced sterilisation of India's poor
Money from the Department for International Development has helped pay for a controversial programme that has led to miscarriages and even deaths after botched operationsTens of millions of pounds of...
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Laura Morante leads the fightback by Italian women to reclaim cinema after...
Tuscany's best-loved film star Laura Morante draws on Freud, romcom and the Peanuts cartoon in her movie debut as a director and writerAmid the seedy showbiz excesses of the Silvio Berlusconi era in...
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