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CPS will not bring charges against MI6 over rendition of Libyan familiesDecision will put brakes on police investigation into British involvement in CIA’s extraordinary rendition programme following 9/11 attacks -
Four dead in Tel Aviv market shootingSix others were wounded after two Palestinians opened fire at the Sarona retail complex in an attack welcomed by Hamas -
Police investigating if wrong man caught in anti-smuggling operationMan sent to Italy is refugee Medhanie Tesfamariam Kidane, not smuggler Medhanie Yehdego Mered, detainee’s friends say
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Tiger temple scandal exposes the shadowy billion-dollar Asian tradeCampaigners hope the Thai temple raid will stir the world’s conscience – but the trafficking of tiger parts to China is a booming business
around the world
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UKUKActivists blockade UK nuclear bomb factory for third dayConstruction at Trident warhead factory in Berkshire disrupted by international blockade of anti-war protesters
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EuropeEuropeWhat has the EU ever done for my … beach?Huge sections of the UK coastline were too polluted for swimming until EU legal action forced the government to clean up
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This brutalist world: from Rotterdam's 'vertical city' to Tokyo's capsule tower – in picturesPeter Chadwick’s new book This Brutal World collates some striking examples of this currently cool architectural genre, from the infamous to the virtually unknown
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The truth about Tehran, by artist Nazgol Ansarinia: 'It's building a fantasy future' – videoThe ‘bureau of beautification’ has painted hundreds of murals across Tehran, showing idealised countryside images – even as the city bulldozes over its traditional buildings. Nazgol Ansarinia takes us into modern Tehran
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It isn't lack of drugs preventing us eradicating Aids, but inequalityTo tackle HIV rates we must give a voice to people prevented from accessing treatment due to social stigma
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Saudi Arabia has been given a free pass to bomb schools and hospitals in YemenBy removing the Saudis from a blacklist of those violating children’s rights, the UN is betraying some of the most vulnerable people on the planet
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opinion & analysis
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Trump v Clinton: four lessons from the primary results for November's electionDemographics, geography and turnout will be critical for both candidates – and attention will rapidly shift to the growing number of independents
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Our orange protagonist can no longer be viewed as a caricature – it’s time to hold him up beside the candidate who will counter him on the debate stageFor Democrats, it's mission 'defeat Donald'. Step one: unite the party
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Erdoğan's draconian new law demolishes Turkey's EU ambitionsThe president’s targeting of opposition parties has shattered any illusions that Turkey is a western-style democracy
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Clinton faces big challenges ahead – a brutal general election against Trump, the task of winning over young voters – and on Tuesday she showed us she’s readyHillary Clinton puts history front and center on her big night
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Police respond to shooting in Tel Aviv - video reportPolice cordon off the site of a shooting in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night
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Witness who stopped Stanford sexual assault speaks out – videoAs outrage grows over the sentencing of a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman, a witness to the attack has spoken out. Carl-Fredrik Arndt says he was riding his bike when he saw Brock Turner, 20, on top of the victim, behind a dumpster. Arndt says he and a friend shouted out to Turner, who then turned and fled before they detained him until police arrived
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Locals vow to rebuild collapsed floating school in Nigeria – videoResidents of Makoko, a vast slum of houses on stilts in a Lagos lagoon, say they will rebuild their pyramid-shaped floating school, after it collapsed in a storm on Tuesday
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Husband of Pakistani woman burned alive: 'I need justice' – videoHasan Khan, the husband of Zeenat Rafiq, the woman burned alive by her family in Lahore, describes the events that led to his wife’s death
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Aleppo hospital damaged in airstrikes in Syria – videoMobile phone video purports to show civilians in the rebel-held, eastern Shaar district of Aleppo in Syria
UN pledges to end Aids epidemic but plan barely mentions those most at risk