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WATCH: Global Sanitation – Let’s Talk Crap

In this TED talk, British journalist and author Rose George discusses – with enjoyable and necessary humour – diarrhoea and global sanitation. She offers some sobering statistics: 2.5 billion people – 40% of the world’s...
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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...
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Daily News Roundup – 5 December 2012

  Africa Mali crisis: Tuareg rebels in talks with government Government officials in Mali have held the first direct talks with rebel groups that seized the north of the country after a coup earlier this year.  The Burkina Fa...
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Daily News Roundup – 4 December 2012

  Africa Al-Shabab ambush ministers and defend Jowhar in Somalia After weeks of relative calm in Somalia, a convoy carrying three ministers has been attacked, while fierce fighting has erupted near the militant base of Jowhar,...
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Daily News Roundup – 3 July 2012

Europe Barclays CEO Bob Diamond resigns The boss of Barclays plc, Bob Diamond, has resigned from the bank with immediate effect less than a week after Barclays was fined for trying to manipulate inter-bank lending rates.  He b...
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Daily News Roundup – 15 January 2013

  Africa France to deploy more troops to Mali French President Francois Holland says more troops are to be sent to Mali to support the 750 already in the country fighting an Islamist insurgency.  Mr Holland said the latest ov...
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Daily News Roundup – 3 October 2012

  Europe Anti-EU protester scales St Peter’s Basilica A man has scaled the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City, apparently in protest against EU measures which he alleges penalise small businesses.  He is stan...
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Daily News Roundup – 5 September 2012

  Europe Heathrow row escalates following British cabinet reshuffle London Mayor Boris Johnson has called for the British Government to permanently rule out building a third runway at Heathrow airport, as ministers gave as...
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Daily News Roundup – 17 July 2012

  Europe G4S chief to face British Parliament over Olympics security Nick Buckles, the chief executive of security firm G4S, is to explain to British MPs later today why his firm was unable to provide the number of securit...
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