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Daily News Roundup – 17 October 2012

  Europe Radovan Karadzic denies Bosnian war crimes Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, beginning his defence against charges of war crimes in the Hague yesterday, has said he should be rewarded for “reducing su...
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Daily News Roundup – 7 September 2012

  Europe ECB bond-buying plan detailed Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank (ECB), revealed details of a new bond-buying plan intended to ease the eurozone debt crisis in a speech yesterday.  He claimed th...
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Daily News Roundup – 23 October 2012

  Africa Stolen Nigerian oil ‘goes to Balkans and Singapore’ The main buyers of the estimated 180,000 barrels of oil stolen each day in Nigeria are based in the Balkans and Singapore, says campaigner Patrick Dele Cole.  M...
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Infographic: Dense for a Reason? Urban Density and Ecological Sustainability

Tim de Chant, founder of Per Square Mile, made an infographic illustrating the densities of some of the world’s major cities. It shows the amount of land those cities would occupy if they had to accommodate the world’s popu...
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Daily News Roundup – 6 November 2012

  Africa Marikana mine killings: South African police ‘planted weapons’ South African police have been accused of planting weapons near the bodies of workers killed during strikes at the Marikana platinum mine.  Photograp...
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Daily News Roundup – 24 December 2012

  Africa Egypt set to declare result of constitution referendum Egypt is due to announce the official results of a referendum on a controversial draft constitution.  Early unofficial results suggest more than 60% of voters sa...
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Daily News Roundup – 7 January 2013

  Asia Chinese newspaper journalists in rare strike Journalists at a major Chinese paper, the Southern Weekly, have gone on strike in a rare protest against censorship.  The row was sparked last week when the paper’s Ne...
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Daily News Roundup – 19 November 2012

  Asia US President Obama hails Burma’s ‘remarkable journey’ Burma is on a “remarkable journey” of reform but has much further to go, Barack Obama has said as he made the first visit to the South East Asian natio...
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The significance of Jon Stewart

Earlier this month, Jon Stewart announced that he was leaving Comedy Central’s The Daily Show after 16 years as host.  For much of that time, The Daily Show set (and continues to) the gold standard for television satire in t...
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