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The president of Brazil stands for democracy, and for the poor. These are still valuable qualities in the 21st centuryPresident Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil, who has received the Chatham House prize for 2009 , is one of the few world politicians to have ridden out the global economic crisis with an enhanced reputatio (Read More)
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Gordon Brown of Britain told G-20 finance ministers that the world needed a system to force banks, not taxpayers, to cover future bailouts. (Read More)
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Twenty years on Europe and the US have squandered their victory, Russia is mired in depression and China has new powerThose who witnessed that night 20 years ago in Berlin, or elsewhere in Germany, will never forget what happened – the night the Berlin wall came down.History in the making is all too often tragic. Only rarel (Read More)
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Father gunned down on visit to see the town made famous by the hit songThe family of a British tourist who was shot dead while on a road trip across the United States said last night that he was "just in the wrong place, at the wrong time" when he was killed during a robbery at a Texas bar.Thomas Reeve, a father-of-one who (Read More)
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Danny Jordaan says England's World Cup bid needs a figureheadAccording to the man who won the 2010 World Cup for South Africa, England will need to make much better use of David Beckham in order to succeed in their bid to host the 2018 event. Danny Jordaan, chief executive of South Africa 2010, said: "David Beckham is quite (Read More)
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The outrage after undergraduate Philip Laing urinated on a war memorial has led many student unions to bar Carnage, the firm that runs the drinking eventsParticipating in at least a modicum of alcohol-induced mayhem is an integral and, some might say, a formative part of the modern undergraduate experience. But the company (Read More)
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Suppressed report reveals archaeological treasures were dug up after Gulf warA secret report on the chequered history of priceless Aramaic bowls loaned to a leading university has exposed an apparent attempt to cover up UK academic connections to a potentially deadly trade in stolen Iraqi antiquities.The findings of the stu (Read More)
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The England manager will not take injured players to the World Cup and that means Rio Ferdinand, tooFor a number of England's so-called golden generation, convincing Fabio Capello of their credentials for a ticket to South Africa is more about fitness than flair. He needs no persuading about what Rio Ferdinand, Michael Owen (Read More)
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A clutch of new films will cement Matt Damon's reputation as the hit of his generation. But that won't change this most reserved and politically committed of actors. Vanessa Thorpe reportsRunners taking part in the annual Miami Triathlon this time last year were surprised to spot a familiar face crossing the finishing line. (Read More)
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Fifteen years after the genocide that killed a million people, Rwanda's warring tribes have reached a truce. But will it hold? Here, the world's leading writer on Rwanda meets the killers, the survivors, and the man bringing them togetherWhen I began visiting Rwanda, in 1995, a year after the genocide, the country was still (Read More)
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Memorial services at army base in wake of shootings reveal the diversity of America's armed forces, claims the president. But a right-wing backlash is gathering forceby Paul HarrisFort Hood, TexasNew evidence emerged yesterday that Muslim army psychiatrist Major Nidal Malik Hasan meticulously planned the shooting spree tha (Read More)
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1950s Belfast bomb campaign was scrapped to avoid violent backlash against CatholicsThe IRA abandoned extensive plans to blow up the BBC, the Stormont parliament and a Royal Navy station in Belfast during the 1950s because they believed that it would provoke a violent unionist backlash.More than a decade before the Provisio (Read More)
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Levying a "transaction tax" on the frenzied activities of City traders and their rivals in the world's financial markets is not a new idea, but it may be one whose time has come.American economist James Tobin originally proposed the tax – levied at up to 1%, on foreign exchange transactions – in the 1970s, to tame damaging (Read More)
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America's biggest military base is a tight-knit community. In the aftermath of mass murder by an army psychiatrist, many feel the horror and trauma of war has invaded their homes. Paul Harris reports from Fort Hood, TexasPrivate Marquest Smith thought the first sounds of gunfire sounded like popcorn being cooked. It was onl (Read More)
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Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar was gunned down in 1993. In an exclusive interview, his son tells Uki Goñi why he had to seek reconciliation with the children of Pablo's victimsJuan Escobar was a teenager when he first challenged his father, the most notorious and brutal drug lord in Colombia's history. "I confronted hi (Read More)
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