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Organisers celebrate huge global turnout and say they will continue until Monsanto and other GM manufacturers listenOrganisers say that two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the US and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday."March Against...(more)
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No, they can be bigoted, as the gay marriage debate has shown, but be kind – their views are from another timeNot for the first time, the late Marxist historian Professor Miliband has featured in one of his son's political speeches. Addressing the Google Big Tent...(more)
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Multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and deforest land owned by indigenous people, say human rights groupsLand conflicts between farmers and plantation owners, mining companies and developers have raged across Indonesia as local and multinational companies have been encouraged to seize and then deforest customary...(more)
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Private shuttles taking workers to and from Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter in San Francisco are becoming symbols for alienation and division as residents struggle with crowded municipal bus services and poor facilitiesEvery morning and every evening the fleet glides through the city, hundreds of white...(more)
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The sharp slide in share prices was either a blip in the road to recovery or a sign that the unwinding of quantitative easing will lead to disaster. Our writers argue it outREASONS TO BE WORRIEDCentral banks may be pumping billions of dollars into the world's...(more)
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Just when you think Congress can't get any dumber, it crafts a $1tn farm bill that harms the poor and promotes unhealthy foodThe US Congress, its approval rating still near all-time lows, is reinforcing its own record of stupefyingly short-sighted lawmaking with what may be the...(more)
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Margot James endured a rough time as fellow MPs rebelled in parliament last week. But she bears no grudgesIf a career in diplomacy had attracted Margot James, it would no doubt have been a successful one. A gay member of parliament, she had to sit for...(more)
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Countries are competing to provide the biggest tax breaks, the cheapest labour and the easiest regulation to attract the likes of Google, Apple and Amazon, to the disadvantage of their own citizens. But there is another wayThe chairman of a parliamentary committee investigating Google for tax...(more)
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As the film Behind the Candelabra, starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, shows, Scott Thorson lived a life of wild excess with Liberace. Since the entertainer's death, Thorson's existence has been just as strangeSoon after moving into Liberace's gaudy Las Vegas mansion in 1977, Scott Thorson,...(more)
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A pioneering foundation called Femwrite has helped a new generation of Ugandan women tell – or at least record – often harrowing stories of daily life in the countryBeatrice Lamwaka was not yet a teenager when her 13-year-old brother, Richard, was abducted as a child soldier....(more)
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By John Irish ABU DHABI (Reuters) - France's foreign minister on Saturday ruled out Iran taking part in a proposed Syria peace conference, saying Tehran was involved in the conflict and had no desire for peace. Laurent Fabius will host Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and...(more)
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A man and woman have been charged in a series of burglaries committed in the last month on the Near North Side, according to police and court records.
