World
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Iran hints at Rafsanjani rejection
Iran’s electoral watchdog said yesterday it would bar physically feeble candidates from running for president, in an apparent hint that it could disqualify 78-year-old former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani from the race. Rafsanjani, if he is...
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Tornadoes cause havoc in Oklahoma
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British MPs vote on gay marriage opt-out clause
An amendment to allow registrars to opt out of conducting same-sex marriages received the support of 150 MPs in a Commons vote last night. The MPs – many of them expected to be Conservative backbenchers – had signed an amendment that, if passed,...
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Morsi sending more forces to lawless Sinai
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Tourists die as balloons collide
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Russian bombs kill four
Two car bombs killed at least four people and wounded dozens of others yesterday in one of the bloodiest attacks this year in Dagestan, a turbulent province in Russia’s North Caucasus region where armed groups are waging an Islamist insurgency. Car...
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N. Korea fires sixth missile in three days
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Putting an end to world hunger
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Celebrities get Chelsea Flower Show look
A party of royal guests headed by the Queen were yesterday given a sneak preview of the Chelsea Flower Show, ahead of its public opening today. Prince Harry was also there to show his grandmother, patron of show organisers the Royal Horticultural...
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Bond to the rescue
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World briefs
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First flight nears, A350 could make Paris show flypast
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Five dead in Israeli bank robbery
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North Korea fires sixth missile in three days
North Korea fired two short-range missiles on Monday, making six launches in three days, and it condemned South Korea for criticising what it said were its legitimate military drills. South Korea's Defence Ministry said North Korea had fired one...
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Briton suspected of slitting the throats of his children
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Marriage support ‘urgent priority’
Marriage between a man and woman is “sorely needed” in today’s society and it could soon be “too late” to save that union, the leader of the Roman Catholic church in England and Wales has said. In a wide-ranging attack on Coalition policies, the...
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Cameron’s rift with party core widens
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Pope warns Church against closing in on itself
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Tunisian killed in clashes with police
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Nigeria offers amnesty to Islamist insurgents
Nigeria offered an amnesty yesterday to Islamist militants who surrender and said 17 people had been killed on the fifth day of a military operation to try to crush the Boko Haram insurgency in the country’s northeast. In their biggest offensive...