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G8 – was Obama really there?
David Cameron told the Commons what a success the G8 summit had been, but Team Cameron’s debrief to colleagues back in No.10 struck a slightly different note.
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David Cameron told the Commons what a success the G8 summit had been, but Team Cameron’s debrief to colleagues back in No.10 struck a slightly different note.
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The prime minister tells Jon Snow today’s G8 declaration on taxation is “a real step forward”, while the Syria statement is “crucial” for a country whose future is without President Assad.
Churchill called them the “dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone”. The world may have been convulsed by war between 1914-18, but as he sat down in its aftermath yet again to stare at maps of the disputed border counties, Ireland’s bloody quarrel emerged from the Firsr World War battle smoke untouched.
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The US says it will increase military assistance, including arms, to Syrian rebels after claiming Damascus used chemical weapons. But the Syrian government dismisses the claim as “full of lies”.
Damascus is the chemical weapons capital of Syria, with vast and often secret research, production and storage facilities littered across the city. Click around this interactive guide.
Former South African president Nelson Mandela is in hospital for a third day as he continues to battle a lung infection.
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