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Watch closely, fluffy bunnies of electoral reform | Simon Jenkins

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Scotland enjoying equal representation at Westminster, when most of its domestic policy is devolved, is absurdly unfair on the Tories and on England alike. The same is increasingly true as devolution advances in Wales and Northern Ireland. Britain badly needs constitutional reform

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Martin Rowson: Clegg considers Cameron overtures

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David Marquand: The bitter truth is the Lib Dems failed. But Clegg could yet redeem himself

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General election 2010: A manic mass, Glastonbury for political anoraks | Simon Hoggart's election sketch

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The whole of Westminster was a fevered manic mass. TV satellite vans zoomed round the streets looking for any politician or failing that, any hack. College Green, the patch of grass in front of parliament, was covered in tents and tall wooden platforms for the TV crews. It looked like Glastonbury fo

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How Barking and Dagenham saw off the BNP | Billy Bragg

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But if this was an election in which everybody lost, what has become clear is that no party lost as badly as the British National party. This was going to be their big breakthrough – the perfect storm in which anger about immigration gave them control of a London borough council and a seat at West

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The lessons of Cleggmania and Lib Dem losses | John Kampfner

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Clegg has every right to explore all options. Ultimately, however, he knows that without serious voting reform, he is whistling in the wind. With a fair system, he would not need to rely on the balancing act that procures for him a few dozen seats in adversity. He would, finally, be able to stand up

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Red or blue? It's a no-brainer for Nick Clegg | Jackie Ashley

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The Lib Dems would finally be able to win seats to reflect their share of the vote. No longer would they be always the bridesmaid. It seems to be a no-brainer. Would Clegg's party ever forgive him for passing up the chance to play in the big league? He doesn't have long to decide

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Britain's Hung Foreign Policy

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But one thing is certainly clear: The next British government is going to be leaner and less interventionist than the last, with broad implications for its global allies. Whoever moves into No. 10 Downing Street will be faced by a daunting in-tray, including a huge budget deficit that all parties ag

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On the Times Square terrorist

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Whether he was acting alone or in cahoots with Pakistani extremists, his abortive attack was probably a response to our efforts to eradicate terrorist groups in Pakistan via drone strikes and other special operations. In short, he decided to enlist in the "war on terror," but not on America's side

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The Influencer

Haim Saban, a “former cartoon schlepper,” at home in Beverly Park. A major political donor, his greatest concern is to protect Israel.Photograph by Martin Schoeller One afternoon in late October, Haim Saban, seated in his wood-panelled library, contemplated the results of a fourteen-month renovation of his estate. It consists of a main house and two smaller buildings—one for guests and entertainin

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Wish I'd said that ... (wait a minute ... I did!)

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BBC News - Brown's 'angry exchange with Clegg'

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BBC News - Remembering VE Day celebrations

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Angela Merkel eyes quick eurozone reform

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a financial sector bail-out fund paid for by banks .a clampdown on credit rating agencies.The way that Greek finances suffered after ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded its government debt "should make us think about the role of credit rating agencies in the propagation of a crisis",

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BBC News - The London haunts of VI Lenin

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It's quite ironic that a capitalist state like Britain gave Lenin access to books, freedom of action, financial aid. And precisely here, in London, Lenin wrote his books about destroying world capitalism," smiles Ms Rappoport

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BBC News - PLO leadership backs indirect peace talks with Israel

There are many Israelis who believe that the Palestinians are not sincere about talks, that the Palestinian leadership simply wants the Americans to impose a solution which meets its desires. They also point out that the land earmarked for a Palestinian state rem ains politically divided between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, from where the Islamist Hamas movement is deeply hostile to this peace

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The PLO decision was announced by Jibril Rajoub, a leading member of the Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas

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BBC News - Ben Bradshaw: 'I see a Lib-Lab pact'

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BBC News - Long: 'Victory for East Belfast'

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BBC News - Peter Robinson:'Preferred not to stand' in East Belfast

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BBC News - Who is Naomi Long?

Page last updated at 01:47 GMT, Friday, 7 May 2010 02:47 UK Her win in east Belfast, unseating the First Minister Peter Robinson, was the biggest shock in the general election in Northern Ireland, if not in the whole of the UK. But who is Naomi Long? BBC News Online profiles the new MP for East Belfast. Born in 1971, Naomi Long grew up in the heart of her constituency, attending Mersey Primary Sch

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BBC News - Peter Robinson loses East Belfast to Long in election

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BBC News - Boris Johnson: Tories must be meat in coalition sausage

Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said the Conservatives must be the dominant ingredient in the formation of a new government. He joked with Jeremy Paxman, saying that the Tories must be the "meat in the sausage".

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BBC News - Volcanic ash cloud hits transatlantic flights

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Spain has closed 15 airports as a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano drifts south over Western Europe

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BBC News - Mohammed Al Fayed sells Harrods store to Qatar Holdings

The sale, signed in the early hours of 8 May, will include all parts of the Harrods group, including Harrods Estates and a charter aircraft service. Qatar Holdings is the investment arm of the emirate's sovereign wealth fund, Qatar Investment Authority. Although it failed in a bid for Sainsbury's in 2007, it is the third-largest shareholder in car-maker VW and has a stake in Porsche. Its chairman,

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BBC News - Pope accepts German bishop's resignation

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The Church has also set up an investigation into alleged financial irregularities at a children's home which was under Bishop Mixa's responsibility, amid reports that large sums of money had been spent on antique paintings, garden furniture and wine

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BBC News - Lib Dem leadership 'endorses' Clegg's Tory talks

Page last updated at 19:38 GMT, Saturday, 8 May 2010 20:38 UK The Lib Dem leadership has "endorsed in full" Nick Clegg's decision to talk to the Tories first - after the UK election resulted in a hung parliament. The Tories won most votes but were short of a majority and have asked for Lib Dem support to form a government. David Cameron met Mr Clegg privately for the first time to discuss the prog

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He stressed his priorities, including "fundamental political reform", but said they would act in a "constructive spirit" in the "coming hours and days

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BBC NEWS | Election 2010 | Results | United Kingdom - National Results

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Peter Robinson: the end of Mr Untouchable | Christopher McGimpsey

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The wild card was the working-class vote, especially in the outlying districts. There the Alliance, that most middle-class of parties and linked to the Liberal Democrats, achieved something it had never managed before: it attracted large numbers of working-class voters from loyalist areas. It proved

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Hung parliament: The markets will take a dim view of prolonged horse-trading | Larry Elliott

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Brown made it abundantly clear today that he wants to remain in Downing Street. He suspects, probably correctly, that the financial markets would take a dim view of Labour dumping the prime minister who was at the forefront of sorting out Lehman's Mark 1 in favour of a caretaker leader. Brown may no

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General election 2010: Parliament has been well and truly hung | Deborah Orr

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There is nothing in a coalition with the Conservatives, formal or otherwise, that might genuinely benefit the Lib Dems. A minority Conservative government carefully offering legislation that might attract the Lib Dem vote, on a case by case basis, looks like the only possible outcome

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David Cameron hugs Nick Clegg close | Simon Jenkins

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It is almost certain that, whatever Clegg agrees, will not be deliverable over more than a few months. The strains in any parliamentary alliance – as proportional systems abroad indicate – will mean that Cameron and Clegg will find themselves torn this way and that by their backbenchers and part

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A lamentable legacy

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To the extent that this weakens European growth, Britain will suffer since the euro area is its biggest trading partner, buying nearly half of British exports. No economy is an island and one as open as Britain’s will be diminished by the bell tolling in Europe

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It ain't over till Nick Clegg sings | Anne Perkins

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Brown emphasised the economic crisis, which has deepened since anyone directly engaged in the election last looked carefully. Stability and continuity, last night's keywords, mean more in the context of Brown's announcement that a G7 conference call and a Euro Group meeting will take place later tod

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Election 2010: Did we vote for this? Hell, no | Anthony Barnett

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It has to change. A large number of regular supporters of all the parties are saying – even as they vote Tory and Labour – that they want proportional representation so that their votes can count. They have grasped that if we let politicians steal our votes through an unfair electoral system it

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Within his reach

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Hung parliaments do not tend to last long, however; the previous one, in 1974, survived for just a few months. This time too another general election soon, to produce a government with a majority of its own, is a real possibility

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Local issues won the day for Labour in London | Dave Hill

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How did they survive? Tactical voting, Gordon Brown's core vote approach, even disillusion with Tory London mayor Boris Johnson could all be part of it, but I'm inclined to look to local factors first. The MPs concerned are all grassroots grafters who know their territory and those they represent.

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Who runs Britain?

Who runs Brit ain?As the courting of the Liberal Democrats goes on, Britons wait to learn who will govern them Brit ain may never have seen anything quite like it. Last night's inconclusive general election was remarkable enough, producing as it did the first hung parliament since 1974. But it was matched for drama by the ensuing spectacle of the three main party leaders setting out their preferred

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Mr Cameron’s predicament is not much less fraught, though. Many in his party regard his failure to win an outright majority in Parliament as an indictment of his campaign strategy, leadership style and closest aides, and are preparing to say so in public over the coming days. Any substantial conce

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Witney: The prize eludes even David Cameron's best boilerplate | John Harris

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That the Labour party was still standing at 6am was a kind of victory | Jonathan Freedland

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If not in national share of the vote, which hovered around the Michael Foot mark, then at least in seats retained, Labour showed a resilience at sunrise that few had anticipated. Even if the later hours of the morning bring waves of bad news, the very fact that they were still in the ring at 6am, af

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Election results: Britain is more Cameronian than Conservative | Martin Kettle

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So let's get used to it. The hung parliament presaged in last night's exit poll is overwhelmingly likely to produce a Conservative government, probably a minority administration ruling with Northern Irish consent

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General election 2010: Seize the moment, Labour | John Harris

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Clegg's pledge that he would back the party with the biggest single mandate and insist on the demise of Gordon Brown now looks ill-advised, to say the least. But if the Lib Dems want the electoral reform that would fulfil some of the promise of the campaign, here – potentially – is their biggest

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BBC News - Oil workers describe methane 'explosion' on Gulf rig

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One worker rescued from the rig, Micah Sandell, reportedly said: "There was people screaming and hollering. There was people jumping off the side. I've never seen nothing like that. Never."No kind of alarms. We didn't hear any kind of alarms until there was one explosion

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BBC News - Funnel 'placed over' Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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A giant concrete-and-steel funnel has been placed over a blown-out oil well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico in a bid to contain oil leaking from it

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BBC News - Underwater footage of oil spill in Gulf of Mexico

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Underwater footage showing oil gushing into the ocean from the sea-bed (on 3 May), and the attempts of a remotely operated vehicle to contain one of the leaks (on 4 and 5 May), have been released by British Petroleum (BP

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BBC News - Meet the 92 year-old teacher finally calling it a day

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Major Geoffrey Langlands was present at the birth of Pakistan in 1947 and has spent more than half a century teaching there. Now he is looking for a successor to take over his mountain school in the Chitral Valley in northern Pakistan

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BBC News - Big names fall on election night

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落選MPの会見集

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BBC News - Thailand policemen targeted in Bangkok attacks

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Two policeman have been killed and several people wounded in the Thai capital, Bangkok, officials have said, It is not clear who was responsible for the attacks, which occurred near where anti-government protesters are camped.

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BBC News - Clinton warns Pakistan of terror 'consequences'

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"We've made it very clear that if - heaven-forbid - an attack like this that we can trace back to Pakistan were to have been successful, there would be very severe consequences," she warned

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Nick Clegg's fateful declaration for Cameron | Seumas Milne

Whatever the final outcome of yesterday's election, we're heading for another one pretty soon – maybe even before the end of the year. The City and the money markets, if not the voters, will be demanding nothing less. For all the swagger, corporate cash infusion and PR makeovers, David Cameron's Tories have failed to extract an overall majority from an unpopular prime minister in the wake of the d

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A Cameron-led government will, in any case, face a painful dilemma of its own. The markets will be insisting on the immediate deep cuts the Conservatives have been promising to bring down the deficit – as well as the smack of firm government to drive them through. But the Tories will also be despe

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Hung parliament: Nick Clegg forced to play fair maiden as suitors bow

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Only elected to parliament in 2005, it now falls to him to choose the next prime minister. Nearly 30m votes were cast on Thursday but only one matters now: it is up to Clegg to give the nod to what he used to deride as "the red or the blue team". And whether he turns left or right, trouble awaits

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BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Two possible blocs

An intriguing interview just now with Peter Mandelson. He conceded that the country had voted for change and accepted that replacing Gordon Brown was one of a number of options on the morning after the night before. He is one of a number of cabinet ministers who have been preparing the ground for a Labour/Lib Dem coalition. To turn their dream into reality, they would have to prove to the country

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He is one of a number of cabinet ministers who have been preparing the ground for a Labour/Lib Dem coalition. To turn their dream into reality, they would have to prove to the country that a coalition of two losing parties would be a more stable government than a Conservative minority governmen

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BBC - Nick Robinson's Newslog: Now what?

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The irony is that having utterly failed to fulfil the huge expectations of an improved Lib Dem performance Nick Clegg may, after all, play the role of kingmaker in this election

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BBC News - Election 2010: Tories meet Lib Dems over deal for power

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BBC political editor Nick Robinson said that while he doubted the Lib Dems would take up the offer of a formal coalition, they might be prepared to let Mr Cameron govern by not voting down the Queen's Speech or Budget. Taking that option would allow them not to be tainted by decisions they did not l

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BBC News - Japan mayors rebuff PM Hatoyama's Okinawa alternatives

Page last updated at 14:57 GMT, Friday, 7 May 2010 15:57 UK Officials from a Japanese island have rejected the prime minister's proposal that they host US troops relocated from an unpopular base in Okinawa. The move by the mayors of Tokunoshima is a further blow to PM Yukio Hatoyama's effort to deal with the controversial Futenma US marine base. Earlier this week, he conceded that his election ple

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His apparent dithering could cost him his job, with elections for Japan's upper house of parliament due in July, says our correspondent

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「強力で安定した」政府作るため措置講じる＝英ブラウン首相

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第1党となった英保守党が新政権樹立を試みるべき＝自民党党首

５月７日、英自由民主党のクレッグ党首は、総選挙で第１党となった保守党が新政権の樹立を試みるべきとの考えを示した（２０１０年　ロイター/Stefan Wermuth）［ロンドン　７日　ロイター］　英自由民主党のクレッグ党首は７日、総選挙でどの政党も過半数の議席を獲得できなかったことを受け、第１党となった保守党が新政権の樹立を試みるべきだ、との考えを示した。自民党は総選挙で保守党、労働党に次いで第３党となった。クレッグ党首は記者団に「今朝の時点で、保守党は過半数は取れないが、多くの票と議席を獲得できる見通しだ。そのため、保守党が国家の利益のため政権を担う能力を示すべきだと考えている」と語った。

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ロイター | 経済、株価、ビジネス、国際、政治ニュース

岸田文雄首相は１０日に開催された経済財政諮問会議で、「最近の円安の動きを十分注視しており、政府・日銀は引き続き密接に連携していく」と発言した。一国の首脳が為替相場に言及するのは極めて異例で、近年の先進国ではおそらくトランプ前米大統領に限られるだろう。逆に言えば、この発言はドル／円が１６０円に達することは政府として許容できる水準を超えたシグナルと見ることができる。ワールドcategoryアングル：フロイドさん暴行死事件から4年、停滞する米警察改革２０２０年、米国で黒人男性のジョージ・フロイドさんが白人警官の暴行により死亡した事件を受けて、人種差別の是正を求める抗議行動が世界中に広がった。このとき、スティバント・クラークさんは微かな希望を抱いていた。午前 4:52 UTC ワールドcategoryアマゾン「違法道路」、環境保護でコロンビア政府が破壊準備も停滞世界最大の熱帯雨林があるアマゾン

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Ｇ７、金融市場の状況を注意深く監視することで合意＝英財務省当局者

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英財務省当局者によると、７カ国（Ｇ７）財務相は７日、ギリシャ債務に関する電話会議を開き、金融市場の状況を注意深く監視することで合意した

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英保守党党首、自由民主党との連携に向け協議開始へ

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Opinion | A Money Too Far (Published 2010)

So, is Greece the next Lehman? No. It isn’t either big enough or interconnected enough to cause global financial markets to freeze up the way they did in 2008. Whatever caused that brief 1,000-point swoon in the Dow, it wasn’t justified by actual events in Europe. Nor should you take seriously analysts claiming that we’re seeing the start of a run on all government debt. U.S. borrowing costs actua

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What remains seems unthinkable: Greece leaving the euro. But when you’ve ruled out everything else, that’s what’s left

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British Parties Jockey to Form Governing Alliance (Published 2010)

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the Conservative leader, made what he called a “big, open and comprehensive offer” to the Liberal Democrat leader, Nick Clegg, seeking his support for either a minority Conservative government or a more formal allianceMr. Brown said, he would welcome discussions with Mr. Clegg if the Liberal Dem

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Times Sq. Bomb Suspect Is Linked to Militant Cleric (Published 2010)

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The Pakistani-American man accused of trying to detonate a car bomb in Times Square has told investigators that he drew inspiration from Anwar al-Awlaki, a Yemeni-American cleric whose militant online lectures have been a catalyst for several recent attacks and plots, an American official said Thurs

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Dubai 'identifies more suspects' in Hamas assassination

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Abu Dhabi's National newspaper said at least one more false passport had been used by the hit squad in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh. The new suspects make a total of 32 who are alleged to have been involved in the operation, travelling on 13 British, as well as assorted Australian, Irish, Frenc

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Could the Conservatives steal this election? | Martin Kettle

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This is what hung parliament means | SImon Jenkins

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The British electorate has spoken but has choked on its words. Labour's glad confident morning of 1997 has clearly ended in defeat under Gordon Brown. David Cameron has rescued his Tory party from 18 years of decay but not convincingly, and not enough to give him a secure parliamentary majority

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