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G8 summit: ministers discuss ending sexual violence
Combating the use of rape and sexual violence in conflict will be on the agenda today when foreign ministers from the G8 group of wealthy countries meet in London for a two-day summit.
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Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady
Margaret Thatcher was Britain’s first woman prime minister. And, as Gary Gibbon writes, at her death the Iron Lady leaves behind a country very different from the one she once led.
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Unprecedented UN force to battle Congolese rebels
The UN authorises an unprecedented military unit to fight rebel groups, alone or with the Congolese army, in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Repairing the appalling injuries of warzone rape
Cathy Newman writes from the DR Congo after meeting the doctors who treat the “battered and bleeding” victims of warzone rape.
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UK public opposes government’s aim to arm Syrian rebels
A decade since the war in Iraq, a YouGov poll reveals half the British people are against giving Syria’s rebels any military hardware whatsoever.
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Baghdad bombings kill dozens on Iraq war anniversary
More than 50 people are feared dead after a wave of car bombings in Shi’ite areas of Baghdad on the tenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda hands himself in
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, known as “The Terminator”, hands himself into the US Embassy in the Rwandan capital.
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Syria conflict takes its toll on two million children
A leading charity warns two million Syrian children have had their lives torn apart, as the Prince of Wales, on a visit to a Jordanian refugee camp, describes their plight as “heartbreaking”.
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Will increased UK aid prolong Syria's agony?
As Syria’s civil war increases humanitarian suffering throughout the country, will the UK’s pledge of non-lethal help merely extend its conflict, asks Jonathan Miller.
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UK to give Syrian opposition military equipment
As the foreign secretary announces the UK is to supply armoured vehicles to the Syrian opposition, the UN confirms that one million refugees, including 500,000 children, have fled the conflict.
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Assad: Britain is ‘bullying Syria’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad accuses the UK government of bullying and naivety over the conflict in his country, in a rare British newspaper interview.
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US ‘confident’ of results from Syria talks
The new American Secretary of State, John Kerry, urges the Syrian opposition to attend an international meeting, promising the US is not planning “simply to talk”, but is “confident” of results.
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North Korea will ‘never bow’ to UN, following nuclear test
North Korea says it will “never bow” to UN pressure to disarm following its nuclear test on Tuesday, the third in the country’s history.
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Gay marriage bill passed, despite Tory opposition
The government’s gay marriage bill is approved by the Commons, but a televised statement from David Cameron fails to stop scores of Conservative MPs from voting against the legislation.
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Gay marriage will make our society stronger – Cameron
Ahead of a crunch vote on same-sex marriage, David Cameron makes a last-minute televised statement in the hope of convincing Conservative MPs to back his plans.