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• Young Africans sold ‘dream’ of UK living only to be trafficked into slavery

  06-12-2014 18:50
  
  Archbishop of Westminster says youngsters are being promised careers in Premier League by abusersYoung people in Africa are being sold “the dream” of living in the UK, including the promise of becoming a Premier League footballer, only to be trafficked into slavery, the Archbishop of Westminster has said.On the final day of a global conference in London between police forces, church groups and government officials, Cardinal Vincent Nichols said it was clear support to tackle human traffickin
  
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• Long-awaited CIA torture report could pose risks to hostages: State Department

  06-12-2014 16:25
  
  John Kerry asks Senate intelligence committee to consider timing of first public accounting of CIA’s harsh interrogation tactics on al-Qaida detaineesSecretary of state John Kerry has asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to “consider” the timing of the expected release of a long-awaited report on the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques.Kerry called Feinstein to discuss the broader implications of the timing of publicly releasing a declassified summary of her committee’s report “because a
  
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• Porn regulation in the UK: It's not as if we're hurting anyone (else), say ... - The Independent

  06-12-2014 13:36
  
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  Porn regulation in the UK: It's not as if we're hurting anyone (else), say ...
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  Myles Jackman, a solicitor specialising in obscenity law at Hodge Jones and Allen LLP, said: “This is impacting on millions of consenting adults who choose to view British pornography; forcing independent UK producers to close down and implementing the ...
  
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• UK Lawmakers: Spy Law Needs Stronger Scrutiny - ABC News

  06-12-2014 12:59
  UK Lawmakers: Spy Law Needs Stronger Scrutiny
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  British police have been misusing surveillance laws to access journalists' communications records, a panel of lawmakers said Saturday. Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee said it was unacceptable that police have seized reporters' phone and ...
  
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• UK lawmakers: Spy law needs stronger scrutiny - TheNewsTribune.com

  06-12-2014 12:57
  UK lawmakers: Spy law needs stronger scrutiny
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  LONDON — British police have been misusing surveillance laws to access journalists' communications records, a panel of lawmakers said Saturday. Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee said it was unacceptable that police have seized reporters' ...
  
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• UK lawmakers: Spy law needs stronger scrutiny - U-T San Diego

  06-12-2014 12:14
  
  UK lawmakers: Spy law needs stronger scrutiny
  U-T San Diego
  LONDON (AP) — British police have been misusing surveillance laws to access journalists' communications records, a panel of lawmakers said Saturday. Parliament's Home Affairs Select Committee said it was unacceptable that police have seized reporters' ...
  
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• Shia LaBeouf collaborator: I don’t think you need a sign saying ‘Don’t murder the artist’

  06-12-2014 10:01
  
  When Shia LaBeouf said he was raped during an art exhibit, one question loomed: how was it possible? In their first interview since the news broke, his collaborators tell their side of the storyShia LaBeouf’s shock revelation last week that he was whipped, stripped and raped by a woman in Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day has become one of the most talked-about celebrity stories of the year. The confession was all the more extraordinary for the seemingly bizarre circumstances of the alleged ass
  
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• Snowden's revelations of GCHQ spying techniques not outside the law, says UK ... - Firstpost

  06-12-2014 09:55
  
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  Snowden's revelations of GCHQ spying techniques not outside the law, says UK ...
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  British spies did not break laws guaranteeing human rights when they used mass monitoring techniques revealed by former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, the country's surveillance watchdog ruled on Friday. A host of civil rights ...
  UK mass surveillance laws do not breach human rights, tribunal rulesThe Guardian
  UK Tribunal Says Spying Programs Are LegalThe I
  
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• SFO gains its first convictions under new UK bribery law - Financial Times

  06-12-2014 01:18
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  SFO gains its first convictions under new UK bribery law
  Financial Times
  The UK's Serious Fraud Office has secured its first convictions against individuals accused of breaching the Bribery Act, which overhauled Britain's antiquated corruption legislation three years ago. The SFO successfully prosecuted two defendants for ...
  SFO Secures First Bribery Act ConvictionWall Street Journal (blog)
  
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• Bound and gagged: the women urging a repeal of the porn laws

  06-12-2014 00:04
  
  Online regulators can accept untold degradations as long as they happen to women‘The conformity that it’s imposing is to the worst model of porn. It specifically targets and bans acts that are associated with feminist and fetish porn.” Pandora Blake, over welsh rarebit and eggs, was explaining to me the new porn laws. They aren’t new, exactly – it’s just a new way of regulating online pornographers, via ATVOD (the Authority for Television and Video on Demand) so that they have to com
  
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