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Nato says Afghanistan conference will raise millions to pay Taliban
Posted on January 26, 2010
The Nato Secretary General has said the London Conference on Afghanistan will be used to raise millions of pounds to pay off the Taliban leadership.
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    Barack Obama to announce $447bn freeze on public spending
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    A week after his humiliation at the hands of Massachusetts voters, President Obama has sent a dramatic signal of his intent to rein in the runaway public spending that has left independent voters alarmed and disillusioned at the end of his first year in office.
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    Bin Laden's son: No "love" among Qaeda-Taliban
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    LONDON (Reuters) - Al Qaeda and the Taliban are only allies of convenience and "do not love one another," according to a son of Osama bin Laden, who grew up partly in a group of al Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan.
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    'When is mummy coming back?'
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Widowed fathers of young children have to face not only their family's grief, but practical and domestic challenges, too. Rob Kemp talks to men left behind, to discover how they cope
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    Guardian editor hits back at paywalls
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    The Guardian editor-in-chief, Alan Rusbridger, has delivered a riposte to Rupert Murdoch's campaign to introduce paywalls to newspaper websites, claiming that it could lead the industry to a "sleepwalk into oblivion".
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    Asia review
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    The Google war: China calls US an 'information imperialist'
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    • Today's comment
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Dominic Lawson: Who are we to decide that a dependent life is a pointless life?
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    Arrested Development
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    The Department for International Development cannot trace £312 million doled out in Malawi. In a time of cuts, even overseas aid must reflect the national interest
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    Sri Lankan election: explosions obstruct voters in Tamil city
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Sri Lankans crowded polling stations throughout Colombo today to vote in a hard-fought election to decide whether the incumbent president or his former army chief should lead the nation's recovery from a brutal civil war both men helped win.
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    • We will find 'twins of Earth' this year, says astronomer Michel Mayor
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Scientists will have detected the first truly Earth-like planet outside the solar system by the end of the year, one of the world’s leading astronomers predicted yesterday.
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    Britain has grown more conservative under Labour
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Britain has become a more conservative country in the past two decades, both politically and socially, an official study of public attitudes shows.
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    Partial Muslim veil ban to be recommended in France
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    The proposal, which calls for a ban of the veils in hospitals and schools, falls short of an outright ban after critics argued that such a move would be divisive and possibly unconstitutional in a country where Islam is the second-largest religion.
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    Haiti reports
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Fighting Starvation, Haitians Share Portions

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    UK's exit from recession set to be confirmed
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Figures due out later are expected to confirm that the UK came out of recession in the final quarter of 2009.
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    Blair's £200,000 hedge fund pay-day
    Posted on January 26, 2010
    Tony Blair is to be paid at least £200,000 by a City firm accused of profiteering from the financial crisis that brought Britain's banks to their knees.
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