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• David Oyelowo interview: The 'Selma' actor on being an African prince, struggling with American red tape, and talking to God

  13-06-2015 23:51
  You have to keep on ringing the changes if you're going to have a long career You need to preserve an idea in people's minds that you can play several types of character, otherwise you accelerate the potential for an audience to get bored with you. I had to change things very quickly after [playing Martin Luther King in] Selma, and find roles that were unlike those I'd played before, such as in Nightingale, which is about a guy who suffers from dissociative identity disorder.
  
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• Israel's Bedouin refuse to go quietly as state attempts to oust Umm al-Hiran villagers

  13-06-2015 23:40
  
  There’s no sign announcing the dusty entrance to Umm al-Hiran: no electricity wires or properly paved roads. But for some 400 Bedouins, this modest village in the southern Israeli desert has been home for nearly 60 years. And as they wait to hear the outcome of a last-ditch legal attempt to prevent the state from ousting them to make way for a new Jewish town, they have become the focal point in a debate about Israel’s treatment of its Bedouin citizens.
  
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• 'Anxious' Police Find Lost Five-Year-Old Boy

  13-06-2015 23:38
  
  Police in Scotland who were "anxious" to find a five-year-old boy who went missing in Lerwick say he has been found.
  
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• Police 'Anxious' To Find Missing Five-Year-Old

  13-06-2015 23:28
  
  Police in Scotland have said they are "anxious" to find a five-year-old boy who went missing in Lerwick on Saturday afternoon.
  
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• Teenage boy in court accused of attempted murder of his school teacher

  13-06-2015 23:25 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A 14-YEAR-OLD boy appeared in court yesterday accused of the attempted murder of a teacher at his school
  
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• The 93rd brigade: Part of the Red Army in WWII, it now fights against Russian-backed separatists

  13-06-2015 23:20
  
  In the Second World War, as part of the Soviet Red Army, the 93rd Brigade played a proud role in the three-year struggle to retake the city of Kharkiv from occupying German forces.
  
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• Bill Granger recipes: Our chef welcomes the al-fresco season with a surf-and-turf barbecue

  13-06-2015 23:12
  
  Summer has begun and I for one am already in full holiday mode. There's something about long days and bright skies that makes the incessant juggling of our everyday lives seem so much more manageable. Whether it's in nature, the clothes we wear or the food we eat, everything seems to be more colourful, have more energy, a greater joie de vivre.
  
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• Victory for campaigners as palm oil company vows to stop felling rainforest

  13-06-2015 23:11
  
  A major palm oil company blamed for cutting down swathes of the rainforest has said it will stop clear-felling trees, in a move hailed by campaigners as a major breakthrough.
  
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• Sniffer mice are being trained in Israel to detect explosives at airports

  13-06-2015 23:10
  
  As the cat-and-mouse tussle with terrorists intensifies, rodents could be enlisted to keep the skies safe. An Israeli security firm claims that mice can detect explosives far more effectively than humans, dogs or machines.
  
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• Baku European Games 2015: British trade envoy offered to boost Azerbaijan's medal prospects

  13-06-2015 23:10
  
  The Prime Minister’s trade envoy to Azerbaijan offered British coaches and facilities to train Azeri athletes, to improve their medal-winning chances before the controversial European Games. The special offer was made last year, as Britain sought to curry favour with the authoritarian regime in Baku to secure better oil and trade deals.
  
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• Sir Richard Branson will not give upon space tourism project despite death crash last year

  13-06-2015 23:10 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TYCOON Sir Richard Branson is planning to create a network of satellites as he continues with his dream of conquering space.
  
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• Tim Farron urges George Osborne to go public on thought process behind RBS sell-off

  13-06-2015 23:09
  
  George Osborne is under pressure to divulge his thinking behind selling the taxpayer’s 79 per cent stake in Royal Bank of Scotland at an expected loss.
  
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• Bring back American nukes? US involvement in Trident means they're already here

  13-06-2015 23:06
  
  Bring back the Greenham Common women. That’s my first thought, now that the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, has started talking about allowing American nuclear weapons into Britain again, to let Russia know it can’t mess with us.
  
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• London Collections Men: Latest menswear shows veer from safe to arresting

  13-06-2015 23:05
  
  Does menswear really need a grand gesture in order to register? It’s something you think a lot about during London Collections Men, which have been sprawling across a few days in January and June for three years or so (we’re currently looking at designers’ offerings for spring/summer 2016, in case you lost count). You think about it a lot because, although London’s schedule seems overstuffed, it’s also a little half-baked. Rather than separating the wheat from the chaff, there’s an
  
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• Doctors blast NHS plans to audit CONFIDENTIAL medical records of patients

  13-06-2015 23:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  DOCTORS have attacked an NHS plan to “audit” tens of thousands of confidential medical records and find out who is costing the most money.
  
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• Cleanse, scrub, wax, tweeze, spray, polish, preen? Stuff that ... it's time to reclaim the beach body

  13-06-2015 23:00
  
  It hasn't, it's true, been the finest of springs. Until recently, cool temperatures and overcast skies have meant that those who'd hoped to be peeling off the layers and revving up the barbecues have remained in long sleeves and wearing complexions straight from Dawn of the Dead.
  
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• A third of Cameron's MPs join EU exit campaign group - Telegraph

  13-06-2015 22:57
  
  The number of MPs in Prime Minister David Cameron's party to join a group pushing for Britain to leave the European Union unless it obtains major changes to its terms of membership has jumped from 50 to 110 in a week, a newspaper said on Saturday. One in three of Cameron's 330 MPs, including some ministers, have joined "Conservatives for Britain" (CfB), which is also backed by 13 members of the upper house and 12 members of the European Parliament, the Telegraph reported. CfB
  
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• Energy company lobbied minister over controversial coal gas project off Scottish coast

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  An energy company behind controversial plans to extract gas from coal off the Scottish coast lobbied a minister to endorse the scheme. But at the same time he attacked civil servants who questioned the project and called them “supine”, official documents obtained by The Independent on Sunday reveal.
  
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• Adi Rukun interview: The subject of a haunting new documentary on meeting his brother's killers

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  Adi Rukun was born two years after his brother Ramli was brutally murdered in the Indonesian genocide of 1965 and 1966 which claimed around one million lives under the guise of eliminating the country of communism.
  
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• Deeyah Khan interview: The award-winning filmmaker on chronicling British jihadism

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  Anyone wishing to understand why thousands of Western-born Muslims are leaving comfortable homes to fight with Isis would do well to watch Deeyah Khan’s powerful new film Jihad: A British Story.
  
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• Fight or flight: Why is the hen harrier facing 'extinction by persecution' in England?

  13-06-2015 22:48
  
  Steve Garnett was first to spot the figures crouched on a ridgeline in the middle distance. Sitting in the heather scanning for birds of prey, the RSPB warden had noticed that we were being watched.
  
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• Report reveals huge appetite for 'citizen's assemblies' to take power back from state

  13-06-2015 22:47
  
  A majority of people would participate in “citizens’ assemblies” in which they would take decisions on local and national issues as part of a transfer of power from the state to individuals, a report published this week has found.
  
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• Chuka Umunna says Labour neglected the wealth creators under Ed Miliband and Ed Balls

  13-06-2015 22:45
  
  Chuka Umunna has launched a stinging critique of Labour’s economic policy under Ed Miliband and Ed Balls, accusing them of not placing enough focus on the “producers” who create wealth in the economy.
  
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• Labour leadership contest: Yvette Cooper pledges to end child poverty within a generation

  13-06-2015 22:44
  
  Yvette Cooper will pledge to restore the target to end child poverty in Britain if she becomes prime minister.
  
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• New Look announces stores will have separate entrances for men and women

  13-06-2015 22:39
  
  It could be the first step towards a gender-segregated British high street. One of the UK’s largest clothing chains has declared that new stores opening this year will have separate entrances for male and female customers.
  
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• Sixth-form centres warn government spending cuts may stop them offering A-levels

  13-06-2015 22:34
  
  Top sixth-form centres are warning that their ability to offer A-levels is in jeopardy because of impending government spending cuts.
  
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• Food charities braced for a busy summer with more children than ever set to go hungry

  13-06-2015 22:31
  
  Food charities across Britain are bracing themselves for what could be their busiest summer yet, as rising childcare costs, low wages and the fallout from the Government’s welfare reforms mean more children than ever risk going hungry.
  
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• Chilcot report into the Iraq war 'unlikely to be published for another year'

  13-06-2015 22:24
  
  The Chilcot report has taken six years and cost £10m but is “unlikely to be published for another year at least”, according to sources close to the inquiry.
  
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• Syrian civil war: Damascus clings to normal life amid the chaos of conflict

  13-06-2015 22:04
  
  In Homs, the war destroyed the old city and left many of the modern suburbs intact. In Aleppo, to which the war came late – many of its proud merchant families believed that its educated population and trading history would spare the city – the conflict burned its way into the ancient bazaar and destroyed the 11th century Great Mosque, whose minaret collapsed with such terrifying velocity that, so one resident told me, “the vibration felt as if the world was coming to an end.”
  
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• There is a point (of sorts) to the futile gesture...

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  As one of the 19,000 free and independent electors of Norwich South whose vote helped to elect the newly fledged Labour MP Clive Lewis to Westminster last month, I have naturally been following his parliamentary career with interest. What has Lewis been up to since he put the sitting Liberal Democrat, Simon Wright, to the sword on 7 May? He began promisingly by declaring that New Labour was dead and making a maiden speech in which, abandoning the tradition that such debut appearances are non-co
  
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• Syrian civil war: Jabhat al-Nusra's massacre of Druze villagers shows the group is just as nasty as Isis

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  Last week fighters from Jabhat al-Nusra, the al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria, entered a village in Idlib province in the north-west of the country and shot dead at least 20 villagers from the Druze community. They had earlier forcibly converted hundreds of Druze to their fundamentalist variant of Sunni Islam.
  
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• Rates will rise soon, but what happens next is anyone's guess

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  Six months ago many American economists thought that the first rise in US interest rates would come this week.  There is a tiny chance that it will, but it would be a huge shock if it did. The setback to the US economy in the early part of the year, while mostly weather-related, has pushed the date back three months. The overwhelming probability now is that the move will come in September.
  
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• Labour should have managed the economy better when in power. Now we must show we have learned the lessons from the past

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  Seven years on, British politics still hasn’t come to terms with what happened to our economy in 2008. Arguably, none of the parties has yet fully learned the lessons of the Noughties boom or the 2008-09 bust.
  
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• Colour confusion: Does Rachel Dolezal's story show that race is in the eye of the beholder?

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  Here’s the perfect fable for our “post-racial” times and no, it’s not the 2004 Wayans brothers comedy White Chicks – although, incredibly, there are some similarities. This week a 37-year-old woman called Rachel Dolezal was “outed” as white by her parents, both of whom describe themselves as Caucasian. For the past few years Dolezal has held a part-time teaching post in the African Studies department at Eastern Washington University and is the local leader of the National Associat
  
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• Being a Rockefeller ain't what it used to be as John D's only surviving grandson turns 100

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  Let’s hear it for the world’s oldest billionaire. Why, you may ask – especially when the widening gulf between the super-rich and everyone else is turning into a social and economic obscenity? Well, simply because he is David Rockefeller, owner of what still may be the most recognisable family name in America. And, 48 hours ago. David, patriarch of that family and of a vanished Wasp establishment, celebrated his 100th birthday.
  
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• Bad news for Labour - first impressions count

  13-06-2015 22:00
  
  After every election I like to review the first speeches of the new MPs – and the first surprise this time is that everyone still calls them maiden speeches. I would have thought that would have died out by now.
  
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• Sun shines on island music festival

  13-06-2015 21:50
  
  A day of sunshine has dried up the mud as revellers enjoyed the start of the summer festival season with the music of Pharrell Williams and Blur.
  
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• Scottish tourism dropped drastically as result of General Election, research shows

  13-06-2015 21:49 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  TOURISM to Scotland from the rest of the UK appears to have suffered a major slump during the General Election period.
  
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• Asghar Bukhari warns 'Mossad shoe-stealer' is on the loose

  13-06-2015 21:07
  
  Asghar Bukhari, the founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK (MPACK UK) unwittingly sent Twitter into a meltdown, after he posted a public rant in which he appeared to claim that Zionists attempted to intimidate and threaten him by breaking into his home and ... stealing one of his shoes. Indeed they did, as the news that the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, better known as "Mossad" was stealing single shoes, evidently to inflict maximum psychological injury to the
  
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• Bonnaroo Music Festival: Kendrick Lamar and Chance The Rapper join Earth Wind And Fire on stage

  13-06-2015 20:32
  
  Rappers Kendrick Lamar and Chance The Rapper made a surprise performance with Earth Wind and Fire on Friday night.
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Navy rescue ship breaks down due to too many migrants

  13-06-2015 20:31 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy vessel spearheading a migrant rescue mission in the Mediterranean, was undergoing emergency repairs last night after the strain of carrying thousands of migrants took its toll.
  
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• Hillary Clinton held her first presidential rally, see how Twitter reacted

  13-06-2015 20:30
  
  While the majority of people walking through the gates at Hillary Clinton's first presidential rally were supporters, her big event was not without some opposition.
  
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• MoD sacked HUNDREDS of soldiers by mistake...and then 'deliberately forgot' to tell them

  13-06-2015 20:21 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  THE Ministry of Defence has “deliberately stalled” over efforts to inform more than 1,500 soldiers that they were illegally disciplined or dismissed from the armed Forces.
  
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• Heartbroken Sam, 6, could lose the drug that gave him his childhood back

  13-06-2015 20:05 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  LITTLE Sam Brown loves nothing more than playing with his younger brother and dreams of becoming a fireman.
  
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• Hillary Clinton holds first presidential campaign rally: Full speech here

  13-06-2015 20:04
  
  Weeks after she announced her candidacy for president, Hillary Clinton actually launched her presidential campaign, holding her first rally.
  
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• Foreign aid 'trick' won't fool Nato, warns ex-defence chief

  13-06-2015 19:43 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  BRITAIN’S allies in Nato would not be fooled by the cheap “three card trick” of lumping Foreign Aid spending into the defence budget, a former Nato Secretary General warned last night.
  
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• Hillary Clinton reveals four key goals of her presidential campaign

  13-06-2015 19:36
  
  After months of waiting, Hillary Clinton actually launched her presidential campaign, holding her first rally.
  
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• Hillary Clinton vows to represent and champion all the American people

  13-06-2015 19:22
  
  Almost a quarter of a century after she bumped across America in a bus beside her husband on his first run for president, and eight years after she made her own first unsuccessful bid for the same job, Hillary Clinton was back on the trail exhorting voters to consider a Clinton one more time.
  
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• Hillary Clinton calls for a new era of shared prosperity in America

  13-06-2015 19:22
  
  Hillary Clinton has called for a new era of shared prosperity in America and told thousands of supporters at a presidential campaign rally that workers can trust her to fight for them.
  
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• Hillary Clinton presidential rally: Sights and sounds from Roosevelt Island

  13-06-2015 19:11
  
  Hillary Clinton held her first official presidential rally on New York's Roosevelt Island, bringing out supporters from all over the spectrum to celebrate her presidential campaign.
  
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