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World News from Times Online
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World News from Times Online
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Jesse Helms, right wing US senator, dies aged 86
Jesse Helms, the senator who picked at the scars of racial segregation to help
turn America’s South into a Republican bastion, has died at the age of 86.
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Missing PlayStations provide clue to the murder of two French students
Two French biochemistry students found brutally murdered in a South London
bedsit may have died for the sake of two handheld games consoles, police
said last night.
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Robert Mugabe uses food as weapon as famine looms
Zimbabwe is on the brink of an unprecedented famine after its worst harvest
since independence in 1980. The plight of Zimbabweans is compounded by the
deliberate starvation of most of the population because of their support for
the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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Dearer food gives EU windfall for poor
The spiralling cost of food in Europe is set to bring an unexpected €1 billion
bonanza for farmers in the developing world - thanks to an unspent EU budget
normally reserved for grain mountains and wine lakes.
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Roman Abramovich is super-rich, but few dare ask how
A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Winston Churchill was
talking about Stalin's foreign policy but much the same applies to the
Russian orphan who grew up to be the world's fifteenth-richest man.
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Italy gypsies find echoes of Nazism in fingerprinting move
“This is like the Shoah, the Holocaust,” says Vanda Colombo as her 11 children
splash around in an inflated paddling pool in the searing heat of a Gypsy
camp on the outskirts of Verona. “The Nazis exterminated Gypsies as well as
Jews, and this kind of discrimination is how it started. If they come here
and try to fingerprint our children we will stop them.”
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French allotments make a triumphant comeback
The view from Akbar Nikoulari's council flat used to be memorable for all the
wrong reasons: rats, rubbish, dead pigeons and occasionally the charred
remains of cars burnt by rioting youths.
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Gaza ceasefire breaking down as violations by Hamas and Israel continue
The ceasefire between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip was on its
last legs yesterday, according to Egyptian officials who spent months
mediating the complex accord.
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Italian Government's 'Mussolini methods' anger human rights groups
Italy’s plan to fingerprint Roma children is being challenged by human rights
organisations.
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Rickshaw Popemobile is the latest in papal transport
Since 1922, when Pius XI became the first Pope to be driven around, the
Vatican has used a range of different Popemobiles, including a Mercedes
limousine, a Fiat and even a Ford Transit van.
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