A report criticises the handling of the privatisation of Birmingham prison – which last year became the first in the UK to pass into private hands.

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Concerns at prison privatisation

Kick It Out chairman Lord Ouseley labels Liverpool “hypocritical” over their handling of Luis Suarez’s eight-match ban for racially abusing Patrice Evra.

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A Lancashire detective is forced to resign after an investigation into the handling of the 2003 murder of Blackpool teenager Charlene Downes.

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Downes detective forced to resign

HOUSE AND SENATE negotiators have improved legislation governing the handling of terrorism suspects — but not enough. The provisions, contained in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, regulate everything from capture to release. They no longer contain some of the most odious measures contained in earlier drafts. Those would have required military detention for both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism activities. They flirted with barring terrorism prosecutions in civilian courts. They virtually tied the hands of the defense secretary in repatriating or transferring detainees to third countries in the absence of a court order. Read full article > >

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Congressional meddling on terror cases, to little effect

Strathclyde Police apologise for their handling of sex offender Thomas Smith, who murdered a mother and her 10-year-old daughter in Ayrshire.

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Police ‘sorry’ over double murder

Time to update our view of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the direction it is taking under its director, James R. Clapper Jr. Clapper is making the integration of collection and analysis his first priority, not just through 17 national intelligence managers — whose job is to coordinate the handling of regional or functional targeted problems — but also through an ambitious multi-year attempt to broaden access to data from all community agencies for those with authority to see it. Read full article > >

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Another look at Clapper’s efforts

The District has forgone about $15 million in property taxes since 2007, when the city finance office quietly reinterpreted a law governing the handling of the city’s largest property transactions, a top deputy to Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi testified Wednesday. A D.C. Council hearing provided the first accounting of the effect of a dispute over whether a 1.45 percent “deed recordation tax” should be levied on the full amount of commercial property refinancings, or whether the original loan principal should be exempted — which was undisputed before the council passed a package of tax reforms in 2001. Read full article > >

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D.C. Council questions reinterpretation of tax law

The District has forgone about $15 million in property taxes since 2007, when the city finance office quietly reinterpreted a law governing the handling of the city’s largest property transactions, a top deputy to Chief Financial Officer Natwar M. Gandhi testified Wednesday. A D.C. Council hearing provided the first accounting of the effect of a dispute over whether a 1.45 percent “deed recordation tax” should be levied on the full amount of commercial property refinancings, or whether the original loan principal should be exempted — which was undisputed before the council passed a package of tax reforms in 2001. Read full article > >

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D.C. Council questions reinterpretation of tax law

Egypt’s Finance Minister Hazem el-Beblawi, appointed after the uprising this year, resigns over the handling of Sunday’s bloody protests, officials say.

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Egypt minister quits over protest

Mitt Romney kicked off his presidential campaign Thursday with a speech promising to “bring this country back” from the economic brink. Speaking in New Hampshire, where he polls ahead of the GOP pack, he attacked President Obama for his handling of the…

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A majority now approves of the president’s overall job performance, as well as his handling of foreign policy, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

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For Obama, Big Rise in Poll Numbers After Bin Laden Raid

Foreign Secretary William Hague rejects claims he may resign over his handling of the Libyan crisis, and denies he has lost his “mojo”.

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Hague rejects claims he may quit

Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir is by no means an apology for his handling of the war in Iraq.

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Don Rumsfeld, playing a dead-end game in his memoir

The French foreign minister defends her handling of the Tunisian crisis, saying France was as surprised as anyone else.

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Tunisia ‘took France by surprise’

A court in Pakistan issues arrest warrants for two senior police officers, on charges of negligence in their handling of the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto in 2007.

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Pakistan police on Bhutto charges