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• Rhode Island court throws out city firefighters' gay pride parade lawsuits

  29-12-2014 22:51
  
  ‘Relatively anonymous’ public servants argued as Catholics who don’t support homosexuality, rights were violated when ordered to drive in 2001 paradeThe Rhode Island Supreme Court has thrown out lawsuits brought by two Providence firefighters who said their constitutional rights were violated when they were ordered to drive a truck in a gay pride parade despite their religious objections.The firefighters, Theodore Fabrizio and Stephen Deninno, argued that they are Roman Catholics and there
  
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• Assisted suicide campaigner Debbie Purdy dies aged 51

  29-12-2014 19:11
  
  Activist won landmark ruling that led to clarification of law on right to dieDebbie Purdy, who won a landmark ruling to clarify the law on assisted suicide, has died at the age of 51.The right-to-die campaigner from Bradford had lived with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) for almost 20 years. Continue reading...
  
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• Obama: I will use veto pen and defend gains in healthcare and environment

  29-12-2014 17:36
  
  Tells NPR that GOP takeover of Senate will likely require him to defend reforms
  Pre-Christmas interview acknowledges shift to a more confrontational policyBarack Obama pledged to spend 2014 wielding his pen to write executive orders circumventing Congress; now he has warned that 2015 will require him to “pull out his veto pen”, to prevent Congress from overriding his wishes.
  In an uncompromising interview released on Monday, the president said he expected that the Republican takeover of th
  
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• The law will protect any member of Congress who releases the full torture report. Someone needs to step up | Mike Gravel

  29-12-2014 13:47
  
  I took a risk so that Americans knew what our government did in Vietnam. Today’s elected representatives should do the same for Iraq and AfghanistanIn 1971, I entered the full text of the top-secret Pentagon Papers – a history of how the US became mired in the swamp of the Vietnam War – into the Congressional Record, even as the Federal Bureau of Investigation was hunting for Daniel Ellsburg (who gave the papers to the New York Times) and President Richard Nixon and his Justice Department
  
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• Jet2 passengers stranded on plane in Lyon while flying from Manchester to ... - Daily Mail

  29-12-2014 12:08
  
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  Jet2 passengers stranded on plane in Lyon while flying from Manchester to ...
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  'A lawyer on the plane called a British Embassy asset to say we were being held hostage by Jet2. The embassy spoke to French airport authorities and they let everyone off. 'People had been on the aircraft since 10.15am and then were locked on the plane ...
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Tough new laws to combat the surge in anti-Semitic abuse in Britain - Express.co.uk

  29-12-2014 11:23
  
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  EXCLUSIVE: Tough new laws to combat the surge in anti-Semitic abuse in Britain
  Express.co.uk
  Anti-semitism has been rising in the UK. Image: Jewish groups rally in London on August 31, 2014. Jewish schools will be given funding for extra security while tough punishments for online hate crime are to be brought in under a “zero-tolerance” approach.
  
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• Tanzanian town builds for the future after Rwanda tribunal concludes

  29-12-2014 11:00
  
  Years hosting the court trying genocide cases has transformed Arusha from a backwater to one of Africa’s diplomatic hubsThe pioneers of the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda arrived in Arusha, Tanzania in 1996. They were destined to spend the following 18 years prosecuting those accused of responsibility in the Rwandan genocide. The lepers on the potholed avenue leading to the courthouse, who used to reach out in the hope of a gift from the rich muzungu (whites in Swahili), have vanis
  
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• Italy ferry fire: UK woman's son-in-law still on ferry - BBC News

  29-12-2014 10:34
  
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  Italy ferry fire: UK woman's son-in-law still on ferry
  BBC News
  The mother of a British woman airlifted from a stricken Italian ferry on fire off the coast of Greece says her daughter and grandchildren were rescued. Susan Daltas told the BBC that her son-in-law, Marcus, was still on the ferry when she spoke to him ...
  Four Britons airlifted from stricken ferry Norman AtlanticThe Guardian
  British show jumper tells of "absolute terror" and panic aboard blazing ferryTelegrap
  
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• New Year's Eve revellers warned to be on their Sunday best: from the archive, 29 December 1978

  29-12-2014 06:30
  
  As 31 December falls on a Sunday this year many traditional functions and festivities, illegal on the Sabbath, have had to be cancelled Anyone planning a New Year’s Eve ball could end up paying for it with more than a hangover. A warning was given yesterday that prosecutions could be taken against those who flout the Sunday Observance Act.As New Year’s Eve falls on a Sunday this year many traditional functions and festivities have had to be cancelled because of the 1780 Act. This lays down t
  
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