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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...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 24 September 2012

  Europe Opposition shut out of parliament after Belarus election Belarus has elected a parliament filled with supporters of President Alexander Lukashenko, after a boycott by the two main opposition parties.  Election of...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 19 September 2012

  North America Chicago teacher strike ends after union vote School teachers in Chicago, the USA’s third-largest school district, have voted to suspend a strike, ending a seven-day action that affected more than 350,000 ...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 18 September 2012

  Europe Mark Duggan “give loaded gun” before police shooting A loaded handgun was given to Mark Duggan 15 minutes before he was shot dead by police in Tottenham last year – the incident over which a protest was held tha...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 17 September 2012

  Worldwide Muslim protests at anti-Islam film escalate across the Islamic world Fresh protests, involving thousands of Muslims worldwide, are taking place over an amateur anti-Islam video produced by private citizens in t...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 12 September 2012

  Europe German court backs ESM bailout fund Germany’s Constitutional Court has rejected calls to block the permanent eurozone rescue fund, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), but has imposed conditions including a c...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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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...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Daily News Roundup – 10 September 2012

  Europe George Soros calls for Germany to “lead or leave the euro” International financier George Soros, writing in Monday’s New York Review of Books, has called for Germany to “lead or leave the euro”.  The co...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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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...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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