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World Association of Newspapers' President Slams Aggregators and Reveals Merger With IFRA

Faisal J. Abbas | Posted 07.20.2009 | Media

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Faisal J. Abbas

Even if the recession is over, what are newspapers going to do with the ever growing competition coming from their online counterparts?

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Interview With Zoe Heller: 'I End Up Loathing Myself'

Christina Patterson | Posted 07.13.2009 | Entertainment

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Christina Patterson

This tall, lithe, creature, with toned-as-Michelle-Obama's arms and a living-in-the-Bahamas tan, a creature whose latest internationally bestselling novel has garnered reviews Martin Amis would kill for, can't really mean 'self-loathing,' can she?

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Extremists Threaten To Unseat Mainstream Rivals In European Parliament

The Independent | Vanessa Mock | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

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From Stockholm to Sardinia, Waterford to Warsaw, a noisy and eclectic band of nationalists and eurosceptics are on the campaign trail hoping to unseat...

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Jurdan Martitegi: France Arrests Suspected ETA Military Chief And 8 Others

The Independent | Elizabeth Nash | Posted 05.21.2009 | World

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The man who is said to be Eta's top military commander was arrested in France early yesterday, in a Franco-Spanish police operation that produced eigh...

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If You Think Dubai Is Bad, Just Look at Your Own Country

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 05.11.2009 | World

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Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

I recently figured that if British journalists who come to Dubai don't send back something sensationalist it won't get printed and they won't get paid. After all, sleaze sells.

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Ireland: Crime Boss Shooting Caught On Tape

The Independent | Posted 04.25.2009 | World

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Gangsters videoed their crime boss accidentally blowing his head off with a handgun during a drink and drugs party in Ireland, police have said. Phil...

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Erotic Comics Ban Proposed By British Parliament Faces Stiff Criticism

The Independent | Jerome Taylor | Posted 04.23.2009 | World

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A coalition of graphic artists, publishers and MPs have condemned Government plans to introduce a new set of laws policing cartoons of children, argui...

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London Cab Driver Convicted Of Drugging, Sexually Assaulting Passengers

The Independent | Chris Greenwood | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

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A London taxi driver was found guilty today of drugging and sexually assaulting a string of women passengers. John Worboys, 51, plied his victims wi...

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Genital Mutilation: African Women Risk Lives To Fight For Others

The Independent | Katrina Manson | Posted 03.30.2009 | World

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The female journalist was snatched by members of a secret society, forcibly stripped and made to parade naked through the streets. It might sound like...

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Iraq Faces A New War That Threatens To Complicate Obama's Withdrawal Plans

The Independent | Patrick Cockburn in Mosul | Posted 03.26.2009 | World

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A new war is threatening Iraq just as the world believes the country is returning to peace. While violence is dropping in Baghdad and in the south of ...

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Britain's Toxic Waste Dumped In Africa (Multimedia)

The Independent | Cahal Milmo | Posted 03.21.2009 | World

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Tonnes of toxic waste collected from British municipal dumps is being sent illegally to Africa in flagrant breach of this country's obligation to ensu...

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Khmer Rouge Prison Torturers Finally Put On Trial

The Independent | Toby Green | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

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Beneath the shade of spreading branches in the courtyard of Tuol Sleng prison, Chum Mei slipped off his sandals and demonstrated how Khmer Rouge tortu...

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Mandela Emerges From Retirement To Support Zuma For President

The Independent | Daniel Howden | Posted 03.19.2009 | World

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Facing its first real challenge since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) has turned to the man who many wish was still leading ...

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US Envoy In Afghanistan To Map Out Surge

The Independent | Kim Sengupta | Posted 03.16.2009 | World

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Richard Holbrooke arrived in Kabul yesterday with the evidence of the lethal resurgence of the Taliban only too plain to see - the debris from a serie...

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Dutch Politician, Geert Wilders, Banned From Britain For Anti-Islam Campaign

The Independent | Ben Russell and Vanessa Mock | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

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Geer Wilders, a far-right Dutch MP whose film linking Islamic texts with the terror attacks on New York sparked protests around the Muslim world was l...

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Woman Escapes Forced Marriage In Pakistan Thanks To New Legislation

Press Association | Lucy Collins | Posted 03.13.2009 | World

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A 22-year-old woman has used new legislation to protect herself from being married against her will in Pakistan. Lancashire Police obtained its first...

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Sarkozy Disparages Gordon Brown's Response To Economic Crisis

The Independent | Andrew Woodstock | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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Nicolas Sarkozy has sparked a cross-Channel diplomatic row after disparaging Gordon Brown's response to the economic crisis on French TV. In a 90-min...

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The Blindness Of A Pope Led By His Bureaucrats

The Independent | Andreas Whittam Smith | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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Pope Benedict must have thought he knew exactly what he was doing when, on 21 January, he lifted the excommunication of four bishops, among them a Hol...

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Avigdor Lieberman, Hard Man Of The Right, Is Israel's Kingmaker In Waiting

The Independent | By Donald Macintyre in Umm el Fahm | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

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Avigdor Lieberman, the far-right politician campaigning on a platform that Israeli Arabs should pledge loyalty to the state or lose their right to vot...

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Globalization Is In Retreat: Adrian Hamilton

The Independent | Adrian Hamilton | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

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One by one the great and good of the land have stepped forward to pronounce on the wave of strikes over foreign workers and to condemn them. "Xenophob...

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Snowmen Are Costing Britain Billions (Mark Steel)

The Independent | Mark Steel | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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Snow used to be annoying, because it made everything stutter at half-speed, leaving you frustrated on icy rail platforms, or trying to find out what t...

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Angela Merkel Attacks Pope Over Holocaust Bishop

The Independent | Tony Paterson in Berlin | Posted 03.07.2009 | World

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Germany's four-year love affair with its own Bavarian-born Pope was in tatters yesterday after Chancellor Angela Merkel accused the pontiff of giving ...

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Gaza War Crimes Go Unpunished: Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

The Independent | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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So that's that then, is it? Gaza is done and dusted? Very satisfying, I'm sure, for the Israeli leadership and their devoted allies at the BBC. But no...

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Afghanistan: British Push Deeper Into Taliban Territory

The Independent | Kim Sengupta | Posted 03.05.2009 | World

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The shattering blast from the rocket-propelled grenade forced us to dive into a ditch. A second round exploded almost immediately, leaving a swirl of ...

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French Strikes: Sarkozy Vs The Street

The Independent | John Lichfield in Paris | Posted 03.02.2009 | World

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In the biggest demonstrations seen in France for more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets yesterday to protest against ...

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