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De Menezes coroner rules out unlawful killing verdict
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The jury at the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes will not be permitted to consider returning a verdict of unlawful killing, the coroner conducting the hearing said today.The coroner, former high court judge Sir Michael Wright, began summing up seven weeks of evidence by telling juro... (original story)
Magnum's Cuba
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution on January 1, Magnum Photos is holding an exhibition of vintage and contemporary prints (original story)
Rice warns Nato against closer Moscow ties
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Nato should beware of cooperating too closely with Russia after the invasion of Georgia last summer, the outgoing US secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, warned today.Speaking in London before attending a meeting of the military alliance in Brussels, she signalled that the US was willing to improve strained diplomatic relations with Moscow. "In principle, we don't have any problem [with closer ties]," Rice said. However, the timing of renewed cooperation should be subject to tests, such as whether Russia was meeting its ceasefire commitments or "acting on its quite ill-tempered decision" to r... (original story)
Modest art: Mark Leckey wins the 2008 Turner prize
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Last night the Turner prize, next step TV stardom? Mark Leckey was named winner of Britain's most important contemporary art prize and said he now wants his own variety programme: "Like the Two Ronnies. But with art."Leckey, Birkenhead-born and a part-time professor of film studies at Frankfurt's St... (original story)
Shares sink as US recession confirmed
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Confirmation that the US is in recession shook Wall Street yesterday, ending the Dow Jones industrial average's five-day winning streak, as it suffered its second-worst daily percentage drop this year. The Dow fell 679.95 points, a drop of 7.7%, to end at 8,149.09 as signs of a deepening economic slump around the world erased much of last week's sharp gains, with banks and retailers among Wall Street's biggest casualties. Shareholders balked at an announcement by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) that the US economy entered recession in December last year. The White House commen... (original story)
Jury clears judge of libelling mother
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A judge who was sued for libel by her mother over allegations of childhood cruelty and neglect in her bestselling "misery memoir" won her case yesterday.Constance Briscoe burst into tears at the high court in London as a jury unanimously cleared her and publishers Hodder & Stoughton over the claims ... (original story)
Israel blocks aid ship bound for Gaza
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The Israeli navy yesterday prevented a Libyan ship carrying 3,000 tonnes of humanitarian aid for Palestinians from docking in Gaza.The voyage of the Marwa, which carried food, blankets and powdered milk, was intended to challenge Israel's economic blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has tightened in r... (original story)
Welfare: Lone parents told to be ready to work or face benefit cut
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The government will announce further stringent welfare reforms today which would force lone parents with children aged one or more to prepare themselves for work or face benefit sanctions.The proposals, likely to provoke a confrontation in tomorrow's Queen's speech, represent a further extension of... (original story)
Home Office mole who leaked documents to Tories acted in public interest, says lawyer
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Christopher Galley, the 26-year-old civil servant at the centre of the Damian Green affair, regularly leaked documents to the Tory frontbencher for nearly two years because he believed they would be "used in a responsible manner in the public interest", his lawyer said last night.Galley's solicitor, Neil O'May, insisted the information involved was of the "lowest level" and attacked the nature of the police investigation, which included the Home Office official being held for 17 hours after a dawn raid on his home by anti-terrorist officers two weeks ago.Galley's appearance came as Ken Jones, ... (original story)
It's in the past: Obama and Clinton bury the enmity
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A naive and irresponsible politician, prone to distorting the facts, awarded a crucial role in his cabinet yesterday to a deeply flawed has-been who is neither honest nor trustworthy - or so you might have imagined had you relied on the character judgments that each had previously made of the other.... (original story)
Rice urges Pakistan to cooperate fully with investigation
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Condoleezza Rice yesterday called on full Pakistani cooperation with the investigation into the Mumbai attacks, saying they represented a "critical moment" in the new civilian government's efforts to wrest control of Pakistan's security services.The outgoing US secretary of state said she did not want to "jump to conclusions", but made it clear during a visit to London yesterday that she expected Islamabad would have to answer for the attacks which left nearly 200 people dead last week.Rice, who is due to arrive in India tomorrow, urged its government to focus on the investigation of the attac... (original story)
Straw launches high-visibility community punishment
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From a distance, the five burly men hacking away at a patio in Slough yesterday might have looked like ordinary labourers. If they hoped that muddy boots and woolly hats allowed them to pass as builders doing a hard day's work, however, they were wrong. These were the first convicted UK criminals forced to wear controversial "vests of shame" - bright orange bibs designed as public reminders that offenders cleaning graffiti or laying pavements are being punished and not paid.Every labourer helping to lay a new patio at Slough's West Wing arts centre, the community service programme chosen to la... (original story)
Sons of Mafia boss plead for private life
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The sons of the Sicilian mafia's jailed "boss of all bosses", Bernardo Provenzano, yesterday made an emotional appeal for what one called "the right to live like any other member of the public"."We have lived, and continue to live, as if we were Big Brother contestants," said Angelo Provenzano. "We have been actors in the biggest reality show on Cosa Nostra."He complained bitterly of police surveillance and media pressure. His younger brother, 26 year-old Francesco, said: "Every activity I get ready to set up is scotched because it is [defined by the law as] a 'product of the laundering of ill... (original story)
Irish papers gagged over corruption reports
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A tribunal into political corruption in Ireland has used the law to prevent some Irish newspapers from printing its preliminary report.Two Dublin-based papers, the Irish Times and the Sunday Business Post, received threats of injunctions aimed at preventing them from disclosing the main conclusions of the Moriarty tribunal. As a result, the Irish Times was forced to halt printing and destroy 25,000 copies of the paper on Friday night.The public inquiry, which was set up in 1999, was investigating whether payments from Irish businessmen to Charles Haughey, the former prime minister, who died in... (original story)
Shoppers paying less at checkout as VAT is cut
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Many shoppers found yesterday that the price at the till was less than the one on the label, as the cut in VAT came into effect.Alistair Darling announced last week that standard value added tax would be cut from 17.5% to 15% for 13 months, to raise consumer confidence. The reduction would cost the government £12.5bn in lost revenue and retailers £200m as they reprice items.Shops that have decided to pass on the reduction to consumers have two weeks to bring labels into line with the prices they charge. Tesco and Sainsbury's dropped their prices over the weekend, before the officia... (original story)
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