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By By HENRY ALFORD, on May 1st, 2013

“Brooklyn” is now a byword for cool from Paris to Sweden to the Middle East, so the author, an avowed Manhattanite, set out to explore this artisan-loving borough.

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Austerity is hurting our health, say researchers

By , on April 29th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> Austerity is having a devastating effect on health in Europe and North America, driving suicide, depression and infectious diseases and reducing access to medicines and care, researchers said on Monday. Detailing a decade of research, Oxford University political economist David Stuckler and Sanjay Basu, an assistant professor of medicine and an epidemiologist at Stanford University, said their findings show austerity is seriously bad for health. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Uygur ‘separatist’ Dilshat Rexit visits Taiwan

By , on April 26th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> A controversial figure accused by China of inciting violence in the ethnically divided Xinjiang region, where clashes with police this week saw 21 people killed, arrived in Taiwan on Friday in a visit likely to irk Beijing. Dilshat Rexit, a spokesman for the World Uygur Congress, an exile group branded by Beijing as “separatist”, said he was planning to meet with Taiwanese politicians to discuss Uygur issues in China and attend a seminar. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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Hundreds of fighters going to Syria ‘a serious threat’ to EU

By , on April 25th, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The departure of hundreds of young Europeans to fight in Syria poses “a serious threat” to Europe’s security, the EU’s anti-terror chief Gilles de Kerchove said on Thursday. EU citizens were heading “in the hundreds” to Syria which was drawing foreign fighters “in the thousands if we aggregate with those leaving from the Balkans and North Africa,” he said. Speaking to the European Parliament’s home affairs committee, the EU intelligence expert said “the core of our threat remains related to al-Qaeda” despite the group’s “very much degraded” core in recent years. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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NHS bosses consider hospital hotels

By , on April 23rd, 2013

Plans for hospital hotels to care for patients recovering from illnesses who no longer need 24-hour care are being considered by NHS managers.

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EU warms to Serbia after Kosovo deal

By , on April 22nd, 2013

<!– google_ad_section_start –> The European Commission on Monday recommended opening negotiations on Serbia’s entry into the EU after Belgrade struck a deal to normalise ties with breakaway Kosovo, aiming to turn the page on the last simmering troublespot in the Balkans. Serbia hopes to be given a date to kick off long-awaited EU accession talks at a summit in June after clinching the deal with its former province of Kosovo last week, the last major hurdle in its efforts to move closer to the 27-nation bloc. <!– google_ad_section_end –>

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