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Jury out in Kercher murder trial
The jury in the Meredith Kercher murder trial in Italy is considering its verdict. Twenty-two-year-old American Amanda Knox is accused of killing the British student during a drunken sex game in the…
Justice
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Peugeot tries to go global
After Renault’s fruitful partnership with Nissan Peugeot may become the second French carmaker to head east with the news it is in talks to buy a 30 to 50 percent stake in Mitsubishi Motors. It…
Cars
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Ben faces battle over Fed’s powers
He may have saved America’s, nay, the world’s banking system but Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke is facing a Senatorial bid to claw back some of his powers. Bernanke needs congressional…
Federal Reserve
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Interview: Portuguese Prime Minister José Sócrates
At 52, José Sócrates has just been elected for a second time as Portugal’s prime minister. Despite the economic crisis Socrates remains confident that Portugal can continue to progress in the fields…
Lisbon EU treaty
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Advancing on hydrogen
Francisco Muñoz Tierno is 89 years old. A few months ago he retired from his farm to live in the calm and quiet of a care home in Soria, a Spanish provincial capital to the north-east of Madrid…
Energy
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Intercultural Cities: Lublin
In Poland’s eastern city of Lublin, historically, many cultures have lived alongside each other; today, Lublin is also noted for its student and refugee communities. The city wants to ensure that…
Culture
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Winds of change in Nagorno Karabakh
‘‘I am on the border of the territory Nagorno-Karabakh and Azerbaijan. It is still a dangerous region following the 1990s conflict. However, there is much more to say about Nagorno-Karabach and that…
Conflict
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Farmers in India convert to organic cotton
Cotton is one of the most polluting industries in the world. India is the second largest producer after Turkey. Although cotton only occupies five percent of cultivated land in India, it…
Agriculture
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Antibiotic resistance is “everybody’s problem”
The discovery of antibiotics revolutionised medical care in the 20th century. Today, however, the wonder drugs are losing their effectiveness at an alarming rate as more bacteria become resistant to…
Medicine
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Prisoners’ performance
Getting ready for the evening’s performance at a prestigious Bucharest theatre… but this is no ordinary company, all the actors are prisoners. Picked from nine jails across Romania, the men were…
Theater
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Jordan Scott debuts with Cracks
Set in an isolated British girl’s boarding school in the 1930s, Cracks is a story of obsession and misguided love, starring Eva Green as Sapphic schoolmistress Miss G.
























































