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Brazil grants gay couples civil and legal rights
Same-sex couples are to be given the same legal rights as married heterosexuals in Brazil following a landmark gay rights case.
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Facebook’s Zuckerberg wins case against Winklevoss twins
Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg has won a legal battle against the Winklevoss twins who accuse him of stealing their idea. The brothers must now accept a previously agreed deal worth $65m.
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Walmart facing sex discrimination class action
It began with six women, 10 years ago – and now the world’s biggest retailer Walmart could face a potential class action involving more than a million female employees, as Felicity Spector writes.
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Home Office ‘falsely imprisoned’ foreign national prisoners
The Home Office has been found to have operated an unlawful and secret policy of keeping nearly all foreign prisoners locked up beyond their sentence.
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Libya: mutiny as death toll nears 200
Eyewitnesses tell Channel 4 News dozens are dying as sniper units shoot people on the streets, while the former British Ambassador to Libya, Sir Richard Dalton, examines the challenge to Col Gaddafi.
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Sex offenders to get appeal right against register
Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales will be able to appeal against having their names on the sex offenders register for life.
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MPs vote to keep ban on prisoners voting
MPs have voted overwhelmingly – by 234 to 22 – in favour of keeping the ban on prisoners voting.
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MP revolt on prisoners’ right to vote ‘could cost £143m’
Ignoring a European ruling giving prisoners the right to vote could cost the Government £143m in compensation claims, reports Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon.
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Tuition fee protesters turn up the heat
Our Chief Correspondent, Alex Thomson, says that nine police officers and probably scores of protesters have been hurt in the continuing demonstrations in Parliament Square.
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Government wins student tuition fees vote as protests grow
As the Government wins a vote to treble university tuition fees, violence flares across Whitehall. Alex Thomson says that nine police officers and scores of protesters are hurt.
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MPs’ expenses: David Chaytor admits fraud
Former Labour MP David Chaytor pleads guilty to three charges of falsely claiming parliamentary expenses in connection with the political scandal that broke last year.
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‘Courageous’ survivors of July 7 bombings speak
An inquest into the deaths of the 52 people who died in the July 7 London bombings today heard testimonies from survivors in the Russell Square attack, which killed 26 people.
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Sharia law: an election issue in Oklahoma
At the recent US midterms voters in Oklahoma were given the choice to ban Sharia law from being considered in courts. Sarah Smith asks why it was a controversial question.
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MoD wins appeal against nuclear test veterans
The Ministry of Defence has won the bulk of its appeal against a court ruling allowing British veterans who took part in nuclear bomb tests to claim damages.
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Tweeter appeals ‘menacing’ message conviction
Trainee accountant Paul Chambers, who was convicted of posting a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport “sky high”, begins an appeal arguing his tweet would not have been taken seriously.
