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The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> US authorities in Idaho said they arrested an Uzbek national accused of conspiring with a terrorist group in his home country and helping plot to use a weapon of mass destruction. The US attorney’s office said Fazliddin Kurbanov, 30, was arrested at an apartment in south Boise after a grand jury issued a three-count indictment as part of an investigation into his activities in Idaho and Utah. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Disclosure of a top secret intelligence operation in Yemen last year compromised a rare and valuable espionage achievement: an informant who had earned the trust of hardened terrorists, according to US officials. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A human rights activist in Japan has written to 178 US senators and congressmen urging them to impose sanctions on three Chinese companies that were allegedly involved in assisting North Korea obtain weapons systems, in violation of UN sanctions. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
A facial reconstruction based on the skull of Richard III goes on display in Leicester on the first stop of a national tour.
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By , on May 17th, 2013 
The driver of a speedboat which crashed killing a father and daughter was not wearing the safety cord which could have stopped the engine, investigators say.
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Ten tornadoes tore through the US state of Texas overnight, killing at least six people as they levelled homes, local authorities said on Thursday. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 16th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> A powerful suicide car bomb targeting a Nato military convoy in Kabul killed eight Afghan civilians including two children on Thursday in the first major attack in the capital for more than two months. Government officials said eight passers-by died in the explosion in the Shah Shaheed residential district in southeast Kabul, while the Nato coalition was unable to give details of any casualties. Hezb-i-Islami, an insurgent group that is independent from Taliban militant forces, claimed responsibility for the attack. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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The HS2 rail project has an estimated £3.3bn funding gap and the benefits for the economy are “unclear”, the National Audit Office says.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 
People who have been arrested should not normally be named until they are charged, Home Secretary Theresa May says in a letter to police.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The US government claims it was only trying to protect American lives when it took the drastic step of seizing journalists’ phone records in a probe of what it calls a major security breach. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Police have reclassified a case of wounding and assault in North Point as murder after the victim died in hospital. Construction worker Ng Chi-cheung, 42, was on his way home with two male friends, both aged 38, when the attack occurred at about 11.30pm on Saturday. Ng slipped into a vegetative state and was put on life support until hospital doctors declared him dead at 5.27pm on Tuesday, shortly after his wife and relatives arrived from the mainland. Anti-triad officers are hunting six men, thought to be aged 40 to 50 and 1.7 to 1.8 metres tall. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 
Snow is reported in Shropshire and on Dartmoor as winds of up to 65mph hit Devon and Cornwall.
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Consumer Council warned Hongkongers on Wednesday to beware of the deceptive tactics used by some salespeople trying to entice them into buying or renewing hotel or dining club memberships. The consumer watchdog said that it had received 124 complaints dealing with club memberships last year, down from 132 in 2011. And despite fewer complaints, the watchdog said, the nature of the sales practices had worsened from merely misleading to bordering on deceptive. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> The Free Syrian Army pledged on Wednesday to punish atrocities amid outrage over a video showing the mutilation of a corpse, as the regime ruled out discussing President Bashar al-Assad’s departure in negotiations. The mainstream rebel group made the statement after a gruesome video of an alleged rebel fighter cutting out and apparently eating the organs of a regime soldier emerged online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnam’s booming Internet scene is littered with failed startups that tried to take on Google and other entrenched U.S web companies. That’s not deterring a newly launched Russian-Vietnamese outfit which believes it can unseat the American search engine in this fast-growing Asian market and also contend with a jittery, authoritarian government seeking to clamp down on freedom of expression online. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> An unusual Xinhua report has led to speculation that China’s state-run news agency has taken a subtle shot at the promotion of a son of one of China’s most powerful political figures. The cryptic report led to online debate on whether Wu Lei, a 37-year-old official soon to be promoted, could be the younger son of Wu Bangguo, the recently retired head of China’s rubber-stamp parliament, the National People’s Congress. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Syria is willing to carry out a joint investigation with Turkey into deadly attacks in the border town of Reyhanli that Ankara has accused Damascus of masterminding, a Syrian minister said on Tuesday. “If the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls for a joint, transparent investigation by the two countries, we have no objection, in order to find the truth,” Information Minister Omran al-Zohbi said. “The truth must be announced to the Syrian and Turkish people,” he was quoted as saying by state media. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Israel’s prime minister is under fire again for a costly lifestyle at taxpayers’ expense, just as his government is slashing welfare benefits and raising taxes to cope with a huge deficit. Israeli media took aim Tuesday at reports that the expenses of Benjamin Netanyahu’s office have soared nearly 80 per cent since he took office in 2009. Netanyahu and his family split their time among three homes, including an official residence. The cost of maintaining them came to roughly US$905,000 last year. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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By , on May 15th, 2013 <!– google_ad_section_start –> Increasingly tough financial sanctions, an arms embargo and other international restrictions on trade with North Korea have significantly delayed expansion of Pyongyang’s illicit nuclear arms programme, according to a confidential report by a UN panel of experts. <!– google_ad_section_end –>
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Litvinenko inquest future in doubt
The inquest into the death of ex-KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko could be replaced by a form of public inquiry to allow evidence about Russia’s alleged role in the killing to be heard in secret.
Continue reading Litvinenko inquest future in doubt
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