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Daily News Roundup – 15 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered settles with New York regulator over Iran deals British bank Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services over its recent ac...
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Daily News Roundup – 25 September 2012

  Europe Abu Hamza extradition decision welcomed by UK and USA The European Court of Human Rights yesterday denied radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terrorism suspects a final appeal against extradition to t...
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Politicians: Delegates or Representatives?

For those readers fortunate enough to live in a representative democracy, a question: do you believe your elected politicians (Congressmen, MPs, Deputies, whatever) should act as your delegates and only vote the way you tell th...
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WATCH: We Need Male Leaders Against Gender Abuse

Jackson Katz PhD is an anti-sexist activist, filmmaker, author and educator. In this TED talk he discusses his “bystander approach” to eradicating sexist abuse, in which witnesses of abuse – and male ones in particular ...
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Daily News Roundup – 21st June 2012

Europe A conservative-led coalition government has taken power in Greece yesterday, promising to steer the country through one of the biggest crises in its history.  As part of this, the new government has pledged to negotiate...
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Daily News Roundup – 24 October 2012

  Africa Equatorial Guinean human rights lawyer ‘missing’ Fabian Nsue Nguema, a top human rights lawyer in Equatorial Guinea, has gone missing.  Human Rights Watch (HRW) said he was last known to have visited a jail on Mo...
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North America

WATCH: Charity – Who Cares what the Overhead is if These Problems Are Getting Solved?

In a fascinating TED Talk, activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta dissects the problems faced by the non-profit sector in the USA – many of which apply elsewhere in the West. His goal is to change our thinking about charitable ...
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Daily News Roundup – 26 November 2012

  Africa Eleven dead in suicide bombing at Nigerian barracks church as gunmen attack police HQ Suicide bombers have attacked a church inside a military barracks in Kaduna state in northern Nigeria, killing 11 people and injuri...
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Daily News Roundup – 11 September 2012

  Europe Spanish Prime Minister rejects bailout conditions Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, speaking in his first television interview since taking office, has said he will not accept outside conditions over a possi...
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