Harder than it looks.
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Can the party remember what it stands for at its annual conference?
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There’s an issue of impunity around sexual violence in conflict zones. Here’s how science could help us solve it.
Protesters prevent sheriff officers entering the tenements of rent refusers.
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Rocketing rents? Fierce protests against housing policies against the interests of the poor? Cereal Killer attacks have many predecessors - particularly Glasgow in 1915.
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Gentrification is an immoral process - here’s why violent protest has a role to play in the fight against it.
Standing up straight.
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It seems Jeremy Corbyn’s new shadow chancellor knew better than to get bogged down in specifics so soon.
Here goes nothing.
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Catalonia’s pro-independence parties now have the chance to assemble a parliamentary majority, but they’ll have to overcome their own differences first.
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A 91-year-old radio operator from Auschwitz death camp has been charged as an accessory to the murder of 260,000 inmates of the notorious death camp.
Dale Farm Traveller site, Essex: bulldozed by Basildon council in 2011.
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Thanks to new government planning rules, Gypsy and Traveller communities could lose their legal ethnic status if they stop travelling.
Don’t believe the hype.
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Life in the caliphate wasn’t exactly as advertised for one group of former fighters.
Big-state Corbyn.
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The new Labour leader has been pilloried for extolling public ownership. In fact, he’s bang on trend.
Pristine Dubai is apparently no place for displaced Syrians.
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By refusing to take in Syrian refugees, the Gulf States’ governments prove they don’t care much about the humanitarian crisis on their doorstep.
Forget the millenium goals, there’s a new plan on the table.
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Global leaders are signing up to an ambitious agenda in New York.
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Denied a chance to hold a referendum, the pro-independence movement are calling the region’s parliamentary elections a plebiscite.
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The language survived against the odds and is now a central part of Catalan identity.
Dover is taking more than its fair share.
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How FOI requests revealed the massive burden on two local authorities, and how to end the damaging effects on children.
Lord Ashcroft: Business man, politician, number-cruncher.
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Ex-Conservative Party treasurer, businessman, political mischief maker and Conservative peer – just who is Lord Ashcroft?
Friendly relations: refugees and the Croatian police.
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Locals are reminded of their own experiences when they see refugees heading into their country.
Having none of it: the Saudi king, Salman bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud.
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The Gulf’s most powerful state has been catching flack for its policy on Syrian refugees (or lack of same). What chance is there of a change?
They see me rollin’…
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Pope Francis’s US visit is being trumpeted as exceptional, but the Vatican has been a superpower for decades.
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Why Twitter went wild for stories from David Cameron’s university days.
Into the unknown.
Reuters/Faisal Nasser
The desert kingdom has never really figured out what to do about Syria – and time may be running out.
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Israel’s extreme response to Palestinian protests is simply prolonging the cycle of violence.
An aerial view of Mecca under construction.
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A deadly crowd crush has killed over 300 people at this year’s Hajj. Is the pilgrimage industry just too big?
Alexis Tsipras, head of Syriza, returns to power after election victory.
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Syriza lives to fight another day, but the omens for Greece’s future are as ominous as ever.
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The West has condemned Moscow’s ongoing support for Bashar al-Assad. But perhaps it is the least-worst option.