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Iraq oilfields up for grabs in TV auction
Posted on June 28, 2009
The world's oil majors will compete in an extraordinary scramble for the right to develop the country's oilfields.
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    Spain's downturn hits foreign workers
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Spain has the highest proportion of immigrants of any EU country - most are from Latin America and Eastern Europe. But as boom turns to bust, Spain is rethinking its open-door policy, as the BBC's European Affairs correspondent Oana Lungescu reports.
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    Britain demands release of nine Tehran embassy staff
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Britain today condemned the arrest of nine employees of the British embassy in Tehran and demanded their immediate release.
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    Leading article: Leading the world – in hot air
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Just as New Labour's "new dawn" was giving way to the harsher light of hard work nine years ago, Tony Blair appointed Jonathon Porritt to chair a new Sustainable Development Commission.
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    How bribery became a way of life in Iraq
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Patrick Cockburn reports on the culture of corruption that has survived the fall of Saddam
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    They just don't get it, do they? Actually, they just don't care
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    It is the phrase that encapsulates a nation's discontent. Shame it's lost on those who caused the convulsion
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    UK's debt will quadruple unless drastic steps are taken, says S&P
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Britain's national debt will quadruple to peaks only ever seen in the wake of the Second World War unless the Government takes drastic steps to address the pensions and ageing crisis, Standard & Poor's has warned.
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    Lighten up, Auntie, and ditch the leaden middle managers
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    I was a little bit disappointed by those expenses charged by BBC executives and revealed by the corporation last week in another of those sudden outbursts of “openness and transparency”.
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    Britannia shrivels under Gordon Brown
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    At least the mullahs still take Britain seriously.
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    A pension lesson from elderly bank robbers
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Rudolf Richter and Wilfried and Lothar Ackermann made an unusual team of bank robbers: they were all pensioners, two in their mid-seventies, one in his sixties.
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    Verdict expected on Iran election
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Iran's powerful Guardian Council is due to give its verdict on the result of the disputed presidential election, two weeks after the poll was held.
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    The hijab debate: 'I don't want to be judged on my looks'
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    The President of France caused a furore last week when he described the head covering worn by Muslim women as 'a sign of subservience'. But is the issue as simple as Nicolas Sarkozy thinks? Here 10 British women explain to Andrew Johnson why – to varying degrees – they choose to cover up
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    Rupert Grint on the magic stopping
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Rupert Grint shouldn’t have a care in the world – he’s just shot the most eagerly awaited screen kiss of all time for the biggest film of the year and he’s got millions in the bank. But as the final Harry Potter film approaches, the actor reveals his fears.
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    The IoS Pink List 2009
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    It's back - as controversial and, we believe, as necessary as ever. Here is this year's roster of the 101 most influential gay and lesbian people in Britian today.
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    Weekend sport review
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    Andy Murray provides a quieter, less mad, steely kind of hope
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    Glastonbury Day 2
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    'Bloated' Beeb sends 400 employees to cover Glastonbury despite hard economic times.
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    Michael Jackson's family 'ask for second autopsy'
    Posted on June 28, 2009
    A second postmortem on Michael Jackson was believed to be taking place after the singer's family requested an independent examination in an attempt to answer many of the questions surrounding his death.
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