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Welfare – caps and traps
One former Labour cabinet minister said he’d be looking very carefully tonight at the size and make-up of Labour’s rebellion on the welfare trap (sorry, “cap”) devised by George Osborne.
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One former Labour cabinet minister said he’d be looking very carefully tonight at the size and make-up of Labour’s rebellion on the welfare trap (sorry, “cap”) devised by George Osborne.
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The government could be facing a cross-party revolt on the care bill, which would give it greater powers to close or downgrade hospital services.
David Cameron is pushing for the UN to set up an international, independent inquiry into war crimes and human rights abuses allegedly carried out by the Sri Lankan military.
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“Dangerous signs of separatism” are emerging in some regions of Ukraine, the country’s interim president says as he prepares to meet law enforcement agencies.
This week Senator John McCain moved to shift control of US drones from the CIA to the defence department. Meanwhile, fears grow about the application of activity-based intelligence to drones.
UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi says the first two rounds of talks have made little headway but the two sides have agreed to meet again.
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Russia’s new anti-gay propaganda law, which is supposed to protect children, has for the first time been used against a minor – 14 year-old Maria Novikova. This is her story, as told by Nick Sturdee.