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The NHS is still failing patients, its outgoing head has admitted, as he announced his retirement on a day that leading health figures issued grave warnings about the safety of accident and emergency units.
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Children will face larger class sizes as a result of the plan to let heads award higher pay rises to good teachers, the chief schools inspector has warned.
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A new group of low-wage workers is demanding a raise from their employers' client: Us. The Washington, D.C., strike demands that President Obama sign legislation or an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay higher wages.
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Ten South African miners are injured after rubber bullets were fired at a crowd of striking workers, police say.
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All the latest news from the Press Service of the European Parliament: votes, resolutions, debates, parliamentary committees and the plenary.
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The food swapping movement is taking off the UK with anything from sushi to strawberries on offer.
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Some 120,000 gene samples taken in two years, as police forces argue they are acting within the law
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The Human Rights Watch has urged authorities in Zambia to release two men who were arrested and charged on allegations of sodomy earlier in May.
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A video produced by the Interfaith Boycott Coalition on the SodaStream boycott.
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John Abraham: Wouldn't it be nice to live in a world where armchair experts gave up fighting over whether climate change is occurring?
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In theory, most of us are opposed to the idea of esoteric chemicals and other potentially toxic things in our food. When pressed, not many people are going to say "I hate the environment and prefer...
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Owen Jones, a left wing political journalist and commentator, has hit out at budget cuts which have led to city wide library closures
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Senior Guantanamo physician dismisses ethical concerns about force-feeding prisoners, and defends the ongoing practice.
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The next phase of the campaign will include a new national strike towards the end of June, but no dates have been set
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By the end of this speech hundreds vowed to vote for Asean for Mayor in 2025, maybe even President. Asean (ah-Shawn) goes to Marcus Garvey Elementary School,...
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Nick Buckles, the chief executive of global security group G4S, is to step down from his position at the end of May.
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A far-right French historian shot himself in the head beside the altar of Notre Dame cathedral in Paris today apparently in protest against the legalisation of gay marriage in France.
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The image of union activist George Tapp lying on a Manchester road with two broken legs and blood pouring from his head following a vicious hit and run during an anti-blacklist demonstration last week has shocked many.
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Jabhat al-Nusra, an al-Qaida affiliate, consolidates position as scramble for control of wells accelerates
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Tens of thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, rally in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.
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Letter of the Palestinian Postal Service Workers’ Unionto the South African Communication Workerson the 65th commemoration of the Nakba(15 May 2013)
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NOT even Georgia’s bitter election campaign last year saw this level of animosity. To mark the International Day against Homophobia on May 17th, a small number of...
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Michael Deas: European governments have so far failed the laws of the European Commission to distinguish between Israeli and colony products, but several governments have made public calls to change that policy...
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YouGov President, Peter Kellner, latest commentary on how most voters back a change in the law
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