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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesThe United Nations on Monday reiterated its call for an “immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire” in the Gaza Strip. In a presidential statement released following a short, emergency Security Council meeting held just after m...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsLabour would bring in laws on domestic violence to prevent abusive partners getting away with a "slap on the wrist", the shadow home secretary says.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - The Hague's arbitration court has ruled in favor of a group of shareholders in defunct oil giant Yukos against Russia, awarding compensation of around $50 billion, a source close to the ruling said on Monday. The Permanent Co...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsNigel Farage's Ukip increases its income from merchandise sales by 120 per cent, the latest accounts for the party reveal
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business Times(Reuters) - At least 36 people were killed in Libya's eastern city of Benghazi where Libyan Special Forces and Islamist militants clashed on Saturday night and Sunday morning, medical and security sources said. The government said more t...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsThe bidding process for licences to extract shale gas - using the controversial process fracking - will begin later on Monday, the government announces.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from BBC News - PoliticsA Sinn Féin constituency office in Derry is targeted in an arson attack.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsIn an age where it's fashionable to be utterly cynical about all politicians, Alex Proud says it's time we stopped belittling and denigrating our elected leaders
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsPotential tax revenues up in smoke as use of foreign and smuggled cigarettes rises amid hikes in duty
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsChildren adopted from care do not perform as well as their classmates at school with less than half having expected levels of reading, writing and maths
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsMPs raise concerns over Government relying on research funded by pesticide manufacturers to determine the harm their products cause to bees
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry visits India this week as Washington tries to revitalize ties it sees as a counterbalance to China's rising power, but rapid progress is unlikely, despite the reformist reputation...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsNumber of incidents of domestic violence dealt with informally through "community resolutions" instead of prosecutions more than doubles in four years new figures show
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Politics News - UK PoliticsEd Miliband is right that policies, not image, are what counts, but his ideas add up to nothing, says Boris Johnson
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesThe Israeli military acknowledged firing a mortar shell that hit the courtyard of a school in northern Gaza Thursday, but denied it was responsible for any deaths at the United Nations-run school, CNN reported Sunday.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsCLINT, Texas (AP) - Authorities are considering a bid to build a shelter in West Texas that would be the largest in the U.S. to hold unaccompanied children who enter the country illegally. A number of sites in Texas and elsewhere are bei...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsSIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Jacky Van Loh's journey began when she left Guatemala and illegally crossed the border into Arizona. On Monday, 15 years later, she'll take the test to become a U.S. citizen. Her story has the kind of ending envi...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesIslamic militants destroyed the prophet Jirjis mosque in Mosul Sunday, local residents told the Associated Press . The mosque dates back to the late 14th century and was built over the Quraysh cemetery. The mosque was one of six destroye...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Reuters: PoliticsWASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama could act without congressional approval to limit a key incentive for U.S. corporations to move their tax domiciles abroad in so-called "inversion" deals, a former senior U.S. Treasury Depart...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageVictor Davis Hanson, PJM
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - Aruba's government released a former Venezuelan general who was detained on U.S. drug charges when he arrived to serve as his country's consul on the Dutch Caribbean island, sending him home Sunday night and defus...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageRichard Fisher, Wall Street Journal
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageE.J. Dionne, Washington Post WASHINGTON -- Paul Ryan is counting on this: Because he says he wants to preserve a safety net, speaks with concern about poor people and put out a 73-page report, many will elide over the details of the prop...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepagePaul Krugman, New York Times
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesThere has been a surge in violence against British Jews following Israel's bombardment of Gaza. More than 100 hate crimes recorded by police and community groups this month, more than double the usual number. Community groups believe it ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageAl Hunt, Bloomberg
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Top StoriesHouse Republicans scoff at calls to crack down on tax cheats.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsA state government long known for a go-along, get-along culture is now a place where compromise is seen as collaborating with the enemy.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Post Politics: Breaking Politics News, Political Analysis & More - The Washington PostUpdated at 11:29 p.m. Sarah Palin says she's fed up with traditional news media outlets. So she's starting her own online channel. In a Sunday video, the former Republican vice presidential nominee announced the Sarah Palin Channel, a su...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsIn a comments that seemed to surprise some of his fellow panelists, Fox News contributor and conservative columnist George Will said Sunday that the U.S. should welcome the unaccompanied minors surging across the southern border, fleeing...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Top StoriesConservatives and coal-friendly Democrats put the bank's future in jeopardy.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsRENO, Nev. (AP) - About 20 activists gathered outside a Reno museum to protest the serving of duck and goose liver pate in a public building. Billy Howard of the group called Foie Gras Free Reno says activists were upset a local company ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsThe House and Senate's top negotiators reached a tentative deal on legislation to fix the Veterans Affairs Department health care system and are expected to announce the details Monday afternoon. The compromise bill will address the "sho...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from RealClearPolitics - HomepageMichael Barone, Washington Examiner Words mean what they say. That's the basis for the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Halbig v. Burwell invalidating the Internal Revenue Service regulation approving subsidi...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsDENVER | A crowd of more than 1,500 rallied Sunday on behalf of Israel at the Colorado state capitol, calling on Americans to support the Jewish state's ability to defend itself in its conflict with Hamas in Gaza. The rally was sponsored...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsThe defense of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell has always hinged on several key arguments. For example, the more than $165,000 in loans and gifts from businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. might have been unseemly — even worthy of ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsJose Varela Lopez recounts with pride that his family has been ranching in New Mexico since 1600 — a staggering 14 generations — but he worries that this generation may be the last. He's alarmed by what he describes as the in...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesWashington Sunday released images it said prove Russia is shooting across the border into Ukraine to help separatists. The surveillance photos were rejected by Russian officials, who accused the United States of getting its intelligence ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsVeterans are twice as likely to have difficulty scheduling a mental health appointment at the VA versus those seeking care at a non-VA provider, a survey of recent veterans found. The annual survey from Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of A...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsStates shifting to the federal Obamacare Web platform this year — and those trying to get away from it — are confident their consumers can get government subsidies to help them pay for health coverage, even if the courts upho...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsIsrael and Hamas both see reasons to continue fighting, and Israeli officials appear dismissive of Mr. Kerry’s aims in a way that few American secretaries of state have faced.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsANALYSIS/OPINION: "How did you go bankrupt?" "Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly." — Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises" ---------------------- President Obama and his sycophantic minions don't even bother any more to come up wi...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsWith violence spreading across Libya and the U.S. Embassy closing in Tripoli, Republican lawmakers over the weekend blasted the Obama administration for failing to stop yet another troubled Middle Eastern nation from descending into comp...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsThe unusual move raised questions about connections between the American government and United Against Nuclear Iran, a hard-line voice seeking to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from International Business TimesHouse and Senate negotiators have reached a temporary agreement regarding the long-term needs of the struggling Department of Veterans Affairs, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Their proposal is set to be revealed Monday during a pre...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from ABC News: PoliticsActor imagines what his life would have been like as a Russian.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from stories: PoliticsIn another presidential foray into territory once reserved for Congress, President Obama's Department of Energy is exploring setting up sites to store reserves of gasoline in various places around the country to provide backup when major...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NYT > PoliticsSpending from outside groups has increased rapidly since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010, and it has created a nonstop campaign season with a harshly negative tone that risks causing voters to tune out before Electio...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Top StoriesWill a new crop of biographies at last reveal the truth about America's most untruthful president?
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Top StoriesOpinion: It's time to start investing in new anti-missile technology that's already available.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from All News RSS FeedConventional wisdom holds that if Republicans take the Senate, generational turnover and term limits will combine to produce a balky and potentially amateurish legislative process next year.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from All News RSS FeedIs John Oliver's "This Week Tonight" even a comedy show, fundamentally? Sometimes, it veers so far into scathing commentary that the satire and laughs take a back seat. Above, from Sunday night's episode in a clip with NSFW language, Oli...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from NPR Topics: PoliticsThe Supreme Court has been granting more rights to corporations, including some regarded as those solely for individuals. But Nina Totenberg finds the company-to-person shift has a long history.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsNew planning guidance will strictly limit drilling for shale gas and oil in national parks and precious areas of countryside.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Political News - International and UK Politics | Sky NewsLabour claims 10,000 abusers have escaped justice because the Government is not cracking down hard enough on domestic violence.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentUniversity boards must be forced to appoint more women, says NUS BBC Scotland education correspondent Scottish universities should appoint more women to their governing bodies or be forced to do so, according to the National Union of Stu...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsBOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Aruba's government released a former Venezuelan general who was detained on U.S. drug charges when he arrived to serve as his country's consul on the Dutch Caribbean island, sending him home Sunday night and defus...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe Telangana government has decided to make use of social networking tools to reach out to the maximum number of people of the state in every possible way. IT Minister K Taraka Ramarao has taken initiative and directed the IT...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentFor rumours to catch fire, an element of truth must typically be involved...Barack Obama during a round of golf at the Farm Neck Golf Club, Martha's Vineyard, in 2013. Photo: Reuters And, indeed, this comes on the heels of multiple...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentA 36-year-old man was arrested after attempting to break into the back of the Knightsbridge nightclub in Braddon on Monday morning. Police say the man, who was wearing dark clothing and a paintball mask, attempted to break into the venue...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Firstpost » PoliticsA controversy erupted over a report of bugging devices having been found in Nitin Gadkari's residence but the Union Minister today dubbed it as "highly speculative" even as the Congress said it reflects lack of faith and mutual trust amo...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAfter graduating from Illinois' motorcycle safety class, instructors say, some students rush out and buy a monster racing bike that can go 140 mph and they can't handle it. "Motorcycles keep getting bigger," said Scott Mochinski, a safet...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentCould the serious jet noise problem over the Chicago area be mitigated by redesigning some forest preserves and parks to replicate plowed farm fields, maybe with public art and other amenities blended in too? Seemingly stranger ideas hav...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from World PoliticsDigital democracy
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentFamily Handout Iain Gerrard, 23, was killed in Tennessee while biking through the U.S. It was to be a journey of self-discovery, a four-month cycling trip through rural America with pit stops in the country's musical heartlands. So on Ma...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentFormer Congress MLA from Secunderabad and film star Jayasudha alleged that she failed to retain her Assembly seat in the recently held general elections due to internal squabbles in the party. After attending TPCC president Ponnala Laksh...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentSolid Energy has confirmed 134 jobs have been lost, with an additional 50 contract positions also slashed. However, a number of voluntary redundancies meant fewer compulsory lay offs than expected. Sorry, we can't show this content as yo...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentTelangana Pradesh Congress Committee president Ponnala Lakshmaiah said that his party will fight alone in the forthcoming elections of GHMC and avoid taking along MIM with it. It was also decided to conduct membership drive and proposed ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentCars clocked at speeds up to 160kmh and 36 people drinking in liquor-ban areas were among the "disturbing behaviours" exhibited by Christchurch boy racers at the weekend, police say. Other worrying incidents included three boy racers who...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentAny time you reach a milestone in age it's time for retrospective, but the last 10 years have been amazing for me...In the 10 years since, we have married, traveled, had kids and opened a new business...I've seen a lot,...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentLast year David Cannon was a stripper; now he's a digital pre-press engineer...Cannon has worked for four years at the Government Printing Office making printing plates, a job he did commercially for three decades. The job once required ...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from World PoliticsHundreds of delegates from across the Pacific are arriving in Koror in Palau to discuss climate change, non-communicable diseases and protecting marine life.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentIndian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday averted a diplomatic disaster by meeting leaders of the ruling CPN-UML just before returning to India after a three-day visit which she said was productive and successful. The hou...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from allvoices - All News >> political >> RecentThe Merced County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday will consider the appointment of a new public defender and establishing an incentive program for businesses to make capital improvements. David Elgin, a Merced County supervising deputy d...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsLOS ANGELES (AP) — Lightning struck 13 people at a popular beach in Los Angeles and another man golfing on Catalina Island, leaving two critically injured as rare summer thunderstorms swept through Southern California on Sunday, authorit...
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from All News RSS FeedThe 113th Congress is on pace to be the least productive in modern memory. So what does a do-nothing Congress do on recess? This brings us to this week's Capitol Quip captioning contest.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from All News RSS FeedUpdated 7:52 p.m. | A VA health care deal has been reached after a weekend of negotiating to resolve differences between the House and Senate.
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedOur Commonwealth Games heroes have made us feel like Scotland can succeed at anything, writes Lesley Riddoch
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Irish Times Politics RSSMinister says State Claims Agency achieved 22 per cent savings in 2013
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Irish Times Politics RSSFormer taoiseach acting as an unpaid facilitator with Crisis Management Initiative
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Irish Times Politics RSSParty is considering putting up one candidate only in Dublin constituencies
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Irish Times Politics RSSLabour’s disastrous performance in May disguised Fine Gael’s weaknesses
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Monday, July 28, 2014 from Irish Times Politics RSSCoveney signals increase in take-home pay whether through ‘tax credits or USC’
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Mail.com: PoliticsWASHINGTON (AP) — Stepping up pressure on Moscow, the U.S. on Sunday released satellite images it says show that rockets have been fired from Russia into neighboring eastern Ukraine and that heavy artillery for separatists has crossed th...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedThe people must be heard on policing methods and ensure the chief constable takes heed, writes Brian Monteith
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News(Updates with Coast Guard saying ship meets standards, State Department official comment) By Erwin Seba and Terry Wade HOUSTON, July 27 (Reuters) - A tanker carrying crude oil from Iraqi Kurdistan was cleared by the U.S. Coast Guard to u...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedAROUND 150,000 people in Scotland could see their pay increase in the event of a Yes vote in the referendum, according to the SNP.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedTHE downing of Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine has split the UK government over whether Russia should be axed as host of the 2018 football World Cup.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedA FORMER senior police officer has claimed that he warned Margaret Thatcher about claims that one of her top aides held sex parties with under-age boys.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedEd Miliband said he would subject himself to a regular interrogation by ordinary voters at Westminster if he becomes prime minister.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from The Scotsman - Politics FeedLABOUR leader Ed Miliband said he wants to subject himself to a regular interrogation by ordinary voters if he becomes prime minister.
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Zawya.com - Middle East Political News* Obama tells Netanyahu immediate ceasefire needed * Israel questions whether Hamas serious over truce * Earlier truce fell apart after missiles hit Israel * Over 1,030 Palestinians killed in Gaza since July 8 * Diplomatic efforts to end...
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from Sky News Australia
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Sunday, July 27, 2014 from World PoliticsThe Libyan government says more than 150 people have died in clashes in Tripoli and Benghazi, descending into the country's deadliest violence since 2011.
