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• Afghanistan hospital airstrike: Pentagon pledges full investigation

  04-10-2015 22:13
  
  Defense secretary Ash Carter echoes Obama’s promise, but Médecins Sans Frontières head says investigation by involved party would be ‘insufficient’US defense secretary Ash Carter on Sunday repeated President Obama’s promise of a “full and transparent” investigation into whether his country’s military was responsible for an airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan run by Médecins Sans Frontières. Related: Hospital bombing
  
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• Scotland legal bodies to discuss MP Michelle Thomson's suspicious property deals

  04-10-2015 18:53
  
  Law Society of Scotland and Crown Office in talks over alleged mortgage fraud linked to SNP former business spokeswomanScotland’s top legal bodies are to hold an emergency meeting over the unfolding scandal surrounding suspicious property deals linked to former Scottish National party business spokeswoman Michelle Thomson.Executives at the Law Society of Scotland, the governing body for the country’s legal profession, have been called in for crisis talks by senior prosecutors at the
  
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• Scotland legal bodies to discuss handling of MP Michelle Thomson's suspicious property deals

  04-10-2015 18:53
  
  Law Society of Scotland and Crown Office in talks over slow action on alleged mortgage fraud linked to SNP former business spokeswomanScotland’s top legal bodies are to hold an emergency meeting over the unfolding scandal surrounding suspicious property deals linked to former Scottish National party business spokeswoman Michelle Thomson.Executives at the Law Society of Scotland, the governing body for the country’s legal profession, have been called in for crisis talks by senior pros
  
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• Afghan hospital bombing: MSF labels US airstrike a war crime as it withdraws staff

  04-10-2015 18:08
  
  Médecins Sans Frontières rejects Afghan officials’ claim that Taliban fighters were firing from hospital grounds and demands independent inquiry Médecins Sans Frontières has pulled its staff out of the crisis-hit Afghan city of Kunduz after a US airstrike on its hospital, labelled a war crime by the group.MSF says 22 people were killed by the bombing, which Afghan officials now claim was in retaliation for fire from Taliban fighters hiding in the hospital. The p
  
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• Shaker Aamer fears he will die in Guantánamo Bay

  04-10-2015 12:44
  
  Last UK resident in US military prison in Cuba tells his lawyer that ‘anything can happen before I get out’, despite Obama administration promising his release
  The last British resident in Guantánamo Bay, Shaker Aamer, fears he will die in the US detention camp despite his promised release, warning his family there are people “who do not want me ever to see the sun again”.The 46-year-old, who is married to a British woman and lived in London before his detention by
  
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• Shaker Aamer 'fears he will die in Guantánamo Bay'

  04-10-2015 10:21
  
  Last UK resident in US military prison in Cuba has reportedly told his family he could die there despite being guaranteed releaseThe last British resident held in Guantánamo Bay claims he is subjected to physical abuse and fears he will not make it out alive despite being guaranteed release in a matter of days, according to reports.Shaker Aamer, who is currently on hunger strike protesting against abuse by his guards, has told his wife and children in London that he could die in captivity
  
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• Bernie Sanders thrills Boston with call to fight racism and reform gun law

  04-10-2015 02:56
  
  Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate draws huge crowd in Massachusetts for stump speech sprinkled with sketched ideas for reform Bernie Sanders decried “an institutional racism that allows and continues to allow unarmed African Americans to be killed by police” on Saturday night, as he preached to a huge crowd in Boston that welcomed the Democratic presidential candidate’s now familiar vision of “political revolution”. Related: Oregon college shooti
  
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• Judges show plenty of mercy… as long as you’re like them | Catherine Bennett

  04-10-2015 01:05
  
  Fare-dodger Peter Barnett’s lenient sentence shows up the double standards in our justice systemWhat with his city career, Rhodes scholarship, PhD, expertise in estoppel, directorship of something called the Legatum Institute, piety, charity work, cultural interests – and long-term fare-dodging habit, Dr Peter Barnett appears to be pretty much one of a kind.So it is hard to know for sure if his suspended sentence and £6,000 fine for avoiding fares that should have cost him &pou
  
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