Arab League foreign ministers are to decide whether to extend their controversial monitoring mission in Syria, amid continuing violence.

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NEW DELHI — Controversial Booker Prize-winning author Salman Rushdie canceled his visit to an Indian literary festival Friday after authorities warned he was a target for assassination, following protests from local Muslim groups. Read full article > >

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In his State of the City address, the mayor hit a nerve by proposing a merit-pay system for teachers and not shying away from other controversial education topics.

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Bloomberg, in State of the City Address, Focuses on Education

An archipelago of federal prisons that stretches across the country houses far more men convicted in terrorism cases than the shrunken population of the controversial prison in Cuba.

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Beyond Guantánamo, a Web of Prisons for Terrorism Inmates

BT and TalkTalk will launch a fresh challenge against the controversial Digital Economy Act.

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Telcos can challenge piracy law

The State Department has released a new series of e-mails about the controversial Keystone pipeline proposal that show a friendly relationship between a U.S. Embassy official in Ottawa and Transcanada’s Washington lobbyist. At times, State Department official Marja D. Verloop–who oversees energy, science and environmental issues at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa–appears to be cheering on TransCanada’s Washington lobbyist Paul Elliott in his efforts to enlist congressional support for the pipeline extension. Read full article > >

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Keystone Pipeline e-mails show friendly exchanges

Three Indian states ban Aarakshan, a new Bollywood film on the controversial issue of education quotas for low-caste people.

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BT and Talk Talk are to try again in their bid to get the courts to scrutinise the controversial Digital Economy Act.

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New review of Digital Act sought

The Patriot Act lives on: Congress voted Thursday night to extend the controversial terrorism-fighting law-originally passed in the wake of 9/11-just hours before it was set to expire. Republican Senator Rand Paul held up the vote for days, calling the…

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Congressional leaders agreed Thursday to extend the Patriot Act for another four years, about a week before the controversial law was set to expire. Congress is set to vote on the measure, passed in the wake of the September 11 attacks and long debated…

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Congress to Extend Patriot Act

“Substantive” changes are to be made to the controversial NHS bill for England which is going through parliament, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin says.

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“Substantive” changes are to be made to the controversial NHS bill for England which is going through parliament, Cabinet Office minister Oliver Letwin says.

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NHS bill to ‘alter substantively’

In making his case this past week for the use of force in Libya, President Obama sought to assure the American people that this intervention is prudent and wise, and that it bears no resemblance to the controversial and costly war in Iraq. He even tried to preempt the comparison altogether, explaining why his administration will not attempt to overthrow Moammar Gaddafi by force: “To be blunt,” Obama said, “we went down that road in Iraq.”

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After the controversial scrapping of the education maintenance allowance, a successor scheme is to be put forward.

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EMA replacement to be announced

Former Labour MP Phil Woolas will not face a criminal trial over his controversial 2010 election leaflets, the Crown Prosecution Service says.

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Prosecution of Woolas ruled out