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• Syria conflict: Russia has 'positioned tanks in airfield' according to US officials

  14-09-2015 23:53
  
  Russia has positioned tanks at an airfield in Syria in what appears to be a continued show of support by the Kremlin for President Bashar Al-Assad, according to US officials.
  
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• Walter Scott murder accused Michael Slager refused bail before trial over shooting of unarmed black man

  14-09-2015 23:33
  
  Michael Slager, the white former police officer accused of fatally shooting a black man in the back as he ran away, will not be released before his trial.
  
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• Trade Union Bill passes second reading in Commons by 317 votes to 284

  14-09-2015 23:27
  
  MPs have voted in favour of the second reading of the Trade Union Bill by 317 to 284.
  
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• 'Draconion' Trade Union Bill passes second reading in Commons

  14-09-2015 23:27
  
  The Government’s controversial Trade Union Bill has passed its second reading in the House of Commons despite furious complaints from Jeremy Corbyn’s new Shadow Cabinet and criticism from some Conservative MPs.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn shadow Cabinet: Key figures on the Labour front bench

  14-09-2015 23:01
  
  Maria Eagle, shadow Defence Secretary
  
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• Shannon Lamb: Delta State social sciences teacher being hunted in connection with two killings

  14-09-2015 22:56
  
  Shannon Lamb, the man being hunted by police in connection with the shooting at Delta State University, is also considered a suspect in the shooting of a woman believed to be his girlfriend.
  
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• Soldier who drowned during training exercise had failed swimming test, inquest hears

  14-09-2015 22:35
  
  A British soldier who drowned during a training exercise had failed a military swimming test and should not have been allowed in water, an inquest has heard.
  
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• John McDonnell: Will the former socialist rebel be able to compromise as shadow Chancellor?

  14-09-2015 22:30
  
  It is quite an achievement to have been sacked by Ken Livingstone for being too  left-wing, but that fate befell John McDonnell when the pair were leading resistance  to Margaret Thatcher’s government at the Greater London Council.
  
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• UK winter weather: El Nino phenomenon could plunge country into long, snowy winter

  14-09-2015 22:15
  
  The UK could be in for a bitterly cold and snowy winter due to the effects of the El Nino phenomenon, which experts have said is at its strongest for decades.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn moves to the front bench on a day of stoney faces, applause and cupcakes

  14-09-2015 22:13
  
  The only time Jeremy Corbyn is known to have sat still for any length of time was while he listened to the opening speeches when the Commons debated the Trade Union Bill. Having been a lonely presence on the back benches for 32 years, he moved to the front bench for the first time ever, flanked by three of the people he had just appointed to his Shadow Cabinet – Diane Abbott, Angela Eagle and John McDonnell.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn reassures moderate Labour MPs over fears of purge by his left-wing allies

  14-09-2015 22:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has moved to reassure moderate Labour MPs that his left-wing allies will not launch a purge aimed at deselecting them before the next general election.
  
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• Donald Macintyre's sketch: Silence greets leader who must wait for MPs' 'love' to emerge

  14-09-2015 21:56
  
  If the Right Honourable Jeremy Corbyn, as he has now become, is going to be accused of returning politics to the class war-ridden 1980s, then the Government generously assisted him by playing their part.
  
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• What the recreations section of Who's Who reveals: From "general beard maintenance" to zymology

  14-09-2015 21:49
  
  Fingertips crackled with journalistic potential yesterday as I looked up Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet in Who's Who in search of their lesser-known hobbies. After gardening, cycling and other anodyne pursuits, shadow Chancellor John McDonnell's notably lists "generally fermenting the overthrow of capitalism". As Jezza revealed his final appointments, what other unexploded biog bombs still lay buried between some of the dustier pages on The Independent's bookshelf?
  
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• Refugee crisis: Hungary deploys soldiers to its border as door slams shut on asylum seekers

  14-09-2015 21:49
  
  Almost 26 years since the day, in 1989, when Hungary opened its borders to citizens of East Germany, heralding the collapse of the Iron Curtain, those same barriers are being closed. In a desperate effort to stem the flow of asylum seekers fleeing war zones in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond, the Hungarian government deployed flanks of police and soldiers wielding automatic weapons to patrol its border with Serbia, assisted by a 110-mile long newly constructed barbed-wire fence.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Redistribution plan will be finalised by next meeting, say EU ministers

  14-09-2015 21:42
  
  European interior ministers meeting in Brussels have struggled to keep a coherent response to the migrant crisis as they rallied around plans to redistribute 120,000 more refugees around Europe, but rejected demands for binding relocation quotas.
  
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• Man who shot Kentucky police officer dead is killed after manhunt

  14-09-2015 21:37
  
  The man accused of shooting dead a Kentucky police officer was himself killed after an eight-hour man hunt in the west of the state, officials have revealed.
  
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• David Cameron's flying visit to Lebanon was nothing more than an exercise in being seen

  14-09-2015 21:33
  
  Well, PR Dave took quite a trip – all the way to Lebanon. He even discovered some refugees in the Bekaa Valley.
  
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• Strangeways rooftop protest sparks claims conditions inside prison are at 'boiling point'

  14-09-2015 21:26
  
  A rooftop protest by a convicted killer has sparked claims that conditions inside Manchester’s Strangeways prison are at “boiling point” – 25 years after the jail erupted in a bloody riot.
  
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• Corbyn says no 'blank cheque' for UK PM Cameron on EU - Labour says

  14-09-2015 21:15
  
  The new leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party told his lawmakers on Monday that they could not give Prime Minister David Cameron a 'blank cheque' in his attempt to renegotiate ties with the European Union, a Labour spokeswoman said. "We can't just give Cameron a blank cheque whatever he comes back with: we have to be fighting for the Europe that we want to see.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn leaves door open over EU exit

  14-09-2015 21:03
  
  Jeremy Corbyn has left the door open for Labour to campaign to leave the European Union as he addressed the party's MPs and peers for the first time as leader.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn: Will the new Labour leader ditch the shorts and sharpen up his style?

  14-09-2015 20:39
  
  Jeremy Corbyn may have ripped up the political rule book by winning the Labour leadership election on Saturday. Defying the style book, though, might be much harder. 
  
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• Tony Abbott out: How progressive republican Malcolm Turnbull seized his moment to unseat long-time rival

  14-09-2015 20:32
  
  The brutal merry-go-round of Australian politics has dispatched yet another prime minister. Tony Abbott has been ousted by his own party following an ambush by his long-time rival, Malcolm Turnbull.
  
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• Andy McSmith's Diary: Solitude and clothes maketh the man

  14-09-2015 20:32
  
  There were looks of unbridled terror on two of the faces backstage on Saturday for the announcement of Jeremy Corbyn’s momentous win, I am told. They were the faces of Jeremy Corbyn and his son, Seb. Corbyn senior seems curiously resistant to the prospect that nothing can ever be the same again for him. During his 32 years as a backbencher, he was a loner who was often seen around Parliament, walking alone, deep in thought.
  
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• Jeremy Corbyn shadow cabinet: Angela Eagle handed top job after party criticised for lack of women in top roles

  14-09-2015 20:31
  Details have emerged of the chaos which erupted in Jeremy Corbyn’s camp after the new Labour leader was attacked for failing to assign senior shadow cabinet roles to women, amid reports that Angela Eagle was given a top position to ease tensions.
  
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• Ringo Starr sells off drum kits and other Beatles' 'stuff' as part of downsize move

  14-09-2015 20:25
  
  Many less-than-kind comments have been made over the years about the rather plodding drum-work of Ringo Starr.
  
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• Egyptian tourist shootings: Mexican group was eating roadside meal when security forces launched 'attack from airplane and helicopters'

  14-09-2015 20:08
  A group of Mexican tourists mistakenly attacked by Egyptian security forces on Sunday were subjected to “an aerial attack with bombs launched from an airplane and helicopters,” according to survivors, Mexico's Foreign Secretary has said.
  
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• Egyptian tourist shootings: Mexican group was eating picnic when security forces launched 'aerial attack from airplane and helicopters'

  14-09-2015 20:08
  A group of Mexican tourists mistakenly attacked by Egyptian security forces on Sunday were subjected to “an aerial attack with bombs launched from an airplane and helicopters,” according to survivors, Mexico's Foreign Secretary has said.
  
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• Agatha Christie: Mystery of crime writer's disappearance tackled in Kate Mosse story

  14-09-2015 20:04
  
  It was the mystery that Agatha Christie could not – or would not – solve, claiming amnesia after she disappeared for 11 days in her 30s. Now best-selling novelist Kate Mosse has tackled the mystery using the Queen of Crime’s own novels for clues “hidden in plain view”. Christie, whose much-loved detective creations include Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple, is the bestselling author of fiction according to Guinness World Records, selling an estimated two billion books
  
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• Refugee crisis: David Cameron calls for aid spending closer to Syria on whistle-stop tour

  14-09-2015 19:50
  
  In a brightly coloured makeshift classroom David Cameron is chatting to a dozen young Syrian boys whose lesson he has just “dropped in” on. Camera crews, photographers and journalists push and shuffle behind as the Prime Minister makes small talk through an interpreter.
  
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• iPhone 6s: what's the best deal from UK networks? EE, 3, O2 and Vodafone plans unveiled ahead of release date

  14-09-2015 19:44
  Networks have revealed how much they'll sell the brand new iPhone 6s for — and while Apple's new phone might be seeing record-breaking success, it's also fairly expensive.
  
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• Trident: Defence expert says it would be 'unwise' for SNP to base second independence referendum on opposition to nuclear weapons

  14-09-2015 19:36
  A leading Scottish defence expert has warned that there is no evidence the Scottish public are opposed to Trident and that it would be “very risky and probably unwise” for the SNP to base a second independence referendum on opposition to the renewal of the nuclear weapons system.
  
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• Mother found pushing dead toddler on swing charged with manslaughter and abuse

  14-09-2015 19:36
  
  A woman who was found pushing her dead son in a playground swing earlier this year has been charged with manslaughter and child abuse, authorities announced on Monday.
  
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• 'Mentally ill' mother found pushing dead toddler on swing charged with manslaughter and abuse

  14-09-2015 19:36
  
  A woman who was found pushing her dead son in a playground swing earlier this year has been charged with manslaughter and child abuse, authorities announced on Monday.
  
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• Independent Monitors May Return To NI

  14-09-2015 19:29
  
  The British Government is understood to be considering the return of independent monitors to scrutinise paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland. Secretary of State Theresa Villiers is expected to make a statement on the current political crisis in the Commons on Tuesday. The Democratic Unionist Party largely boycotted Monday's session of the devolved Assembly but met Ms Villiers to discuss the political crisis.
  
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• Groom interrupts speech at his own wedding to save a guest's life

  14-09-2015 19:29
  
  A groom interrupted his best man’s speech at his own wedding, to save the life of a choking guest.
  
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• Bus lanes are being used as 'rat traps' for councils to earn millions in fines, says AA

  14-09-2015 19:28
  
  Unfair fines for misusing bus lanes have become the biggest complaint of UK drivers, according to the AA.
  
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• Tony Abbott removed: Australia has had five prime ministers in five years

  14-09-2015 19:27
  
  The sudden ousting of Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott now means the country has had five people fill the position since 2010.
  
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• Eid Aal-Adha: 5 things you need to know

  14-09-2015 19:26
  
  Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid al-Adha, known as the Feast of Sacrifice or the Greater Eid, with prayers, feasts and visits to family and friends.
  
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• Wendy house must be pulled down after parents refused planning permission

  14-09-2015 19:24
  
  A young boy’s Wendy house must be pulled down after the local council refused his parents planning permission.
  
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• War in Syria: Car bombs kill 26 people in Kurdish city Hassakeh

  14-09-2015 19:24
  
  A woman and her two children were among at least 20 people who died when two car bombs struck different parts of Hassakeh, a predominantly Kurdish city in north-eastern Syria.
  
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• Twitter is reminding John Mcdonnell he said he'd swim through vomit to oppose George Osborne's welfare bill

  14-09-2015 19:23
  
  People are taking to social media to remind Labour’s new shadow Chancellor of his assertion that he would "swim through vomit" to oppose the Government’s proposed welfare bill.
  
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• Thousands of Eastern Europeans lead demonstrations against refugees

  14-09-2015 19:21
  
  Thousands of people took part in anti-refugee and migrant protests in Eastern Europe on Saturday.
  
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• Thousands of Eastern Europeans lead demonstrations against migrants

  14-09-2015 19:21
  
  Thousands of people took part in anti-migrant protests in Eastern Europe on Saturday.
  
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• Benjamin Netanyahu to crack down on Palestinian violence

  14-09-2015 19:11
  
  The Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has called an emergency meeting for Tuesday evening to discuss recent Palestinian attacks, hours after an Israeli died when his car was stoned and violence broke out at Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site for a second day in a row. 
  
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• Smaller tableware 'could help reduce over-eating and obesity'

  14-09-2015 19:00
  
  Shrinking the size of plates, knives, forks and glasses could go some way towards tackling over-eating and obesity, a study suggests.
  
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• Justice Minister suggests Amal Clooney is given high profile cases ‘because of marriage to George Clooney’

  14-09-2015 19:00
  
  The Conservative Justice Minister has reportedly suggested the renowned human rights lawyer Amal Clooney is only assigned high profile cases because of her marriage to George Clooney. 
  
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• Bangkok shrine bombing suspect in is a Uighur who fled to Turkey, say Thai police

  14-09-2015 19:00
  
  A key suspect in last month’s bombing at a Bangkok shrine that killed 20 people has fled to Turkey, Thai police have said. This bolsters the view that the attack could be the work of members of China’s ethnic Uighur minority, who have sympathisers in Turkey.
  
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• Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace Donald Trump on The Celebrity Apprentice

  14-09-2015 19:00
  
  With Donald Trump's White House run going from strength to strength, some might say the boundaries between politics, celebrity and business are already blurry enough. And now the announcement of the real estate tycoon's replacement on The Celebrity Apprentice looks set to muddy matters further.
  
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• Vitamin D lack 'speeds up age-related mental decline', says study

  14-09-2015 18:57
  
  Lack of vitamin D greatly accelerates the loss of mental ability that comes with age, a study has shown.
  
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• One dead after gunman opens fire at Delta State University

  14-09-2015 18:52
  
  A public university is currently on lock down after an active shooter was reported on campus in Cleveland, Mississippi.
  
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