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• Former PM Ahmed Shafiq attacked after casting his vote• Establishment candidates polling well• Turnout picked up after a slow start10.16am: A female member of Ahmed Shafiq's campaign team went into labour yesterday while observing at a polling station in Minya, Ahram Online reports.Kamelia El-Sayed Ibrahim...(more)
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David Cameron to allow free vote on same-sex marriage plans after backbenchers warn issue could split Tory partyDavid Cameron is to give MPs a free vote on gay marriage following warnings from Tory backbenchers that any move to whip MPs could cause "serious divisions" withinthe party.The...(more)
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• UK GDP shrank by 0.3% in Q1: ONS• Sources: Hollande and Merkel split over eurobonds• The leaders' official statement• Analysts unimpressed• Weak data from France...and Germany• Today's agenda10.04am: Economists are disappointed by the news that the UK economy shrank by 0.3% in the first quarter...(more)
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The winner of this year's American Idol contest is announced, after a record 132 million votes are cast in the final showdown.
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Pro-democracy protests in Egypt and elsewhere of 2011 were let down by states putting self-interest before human rights, Amnesty says.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Surging street violence against African migrants, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom", drew empathy for the rioters from the interior minister on Thursday. Waving Israeli flags and chanting "Deport the Sudanese", residents of a low-income Tel Aviv neighborhood where...(more)
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At least six people are injured after a fire breaks out on a US nuclear submarine at a dockyard in the state of Maine.
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KARAWANG GIRANG, Indonesia (Reuters) - Anti-tobacco advocates in Indonesia plan to file a class action lawsuit this month using cases of child addicts in the hope of forcing tougher regulations on a society where one in three people smokes. It is a rare attempt of its...(more)
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Papers consumed by euro analysis
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Talks in Baghdad on Iran's controversial nuclear programme go into a second unscheduled day after diplomats fail to reach agreement.
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Approximately 20 Republican ward leaders in one of America’s most Democratic cities took the words of Sarah Palin to heart last night. They went rogue.
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South Africa's ruling party is taking legal action to try and remove a controversial painting of President Jacob Zuma from public view.
