Paul Mason
Five last-minute thoughts about the Greek election
Greece’s deep-seated problems are decades old and normal. What’s abnormal is the chance to blow it all away.
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FactCheck: how much has the coalition cost you?
Are you out of pocket thanks to coalition policies? And would it have been any different under a Labour government?
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Palestinian ‘stabs 10’ in Israel bus attack
A Palestinian man injures 13 people in a knife-attack on a commuter bus in central Tel Aviv before being shot in the leg, Israeli police say.
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FactCheck: is inequality really getting worse?
Shock statistics suggest the gap between rich and poor is becoming ever more extreme. But what does the evidence really show?
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Yemeni president’s chief of staff abducted by Houthi militia
Armed Shia militants belonging to Yemen’s Houthi movement have seized Yemeni President Abd-Rabbo Mansour Hadi’s chief of staff in the capital city Sanaa.
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On the trail of the smugglers shipping refugees to Europe
The people smugglers in Turkey are Syrians and they tell us they’re doing their compatriots a favour. Here, in Mersin Otogar, we meet a smuggler and a Syrian family desperate to reach Europe.
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Yemen car bomb kills 30 outside police college
About 30 people are killed and more than 50 wounded after a car bomb explodes outside a police college in Yemen’s capital Sanaaa, in an attack carrying the hallmark of al-Qaeda.
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Jonathan Miller
The grubby trafficking business where the customer comes last
The arrival of the first ship of the new year brought tears of joy to its tired and famished human cargo. But with the Ezadeen comes a serious and seemingly intractable problem for the EU.
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This is how new year’s eve was celebrated in Syria
Bashar Assad makes a rare visit to the front line, activists light candles in Aleppo and new years cakes are baked in Sheikh Maksoud – this is how 2015 was ushered in war-torn Syria.
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Retrial for Al Jazeera journalists jailed in Egypt
Three journalists, including one Australian, will face a retrial after serving one year of a sentence under controversial charges. The families of the men say there is still “a long road ahead”.
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Inside China’s Jesus cult
Thousands in China are turning their back on communism in favour of obscure Christian sects, one of which worships a female Jesus – and is known to use violence to impose itself, writes Danny Vincent.
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Israel launches first Gaza attack since August
Israeli aircraft bomb a Hamas militant base in the Gaza strip, in their first strike in Gaza since a ceasefire was declared four months ago.
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2014 in immigration: from EU arrivals to Ukip defections
It began the year as a relatively quiet issue. Then along came the Ukip surge, a shock European election and two Conservative defections. Here we look back at the last 12 months of immigration.
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Kurdish fighters ‘break Islamic State siege’ at Sinjar
Kurdish peshmerga forces fight back Islamic State militants from Mount Sinjar on the borders of Iraq, Syria and Turkey, freeing hundreds of Yazidis trapped by IS.
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German ‘anti-Islam’ protests: nine things you need to know
Nearly 15,000 people attend Dresden’s latest march against “Islamisation of the west” – is the movement driven by the middle classes, as claimed – or are there more sinister forces at work?
