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and glamorous red carpet dresses gripped the showbiz world – however there are other, arguably more important, news stories that you might have missed.
'Cash for access' scandal. Former foreign secretaries Jack Straw and Sir Malcolm Rifkind deny wrongdoing amid accusations that they offered services to private firms for cash . |
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Tripoli Bishop Giovanni Martinelli, Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli has vowed to stay in Libya with the few remaining Christians in Tripoli even as foreign nationals flee the war torn nation. "We are ready to bear witness to who we are and to what we do according to the words of Christ," Vatican Radio quoted the bishop as saying. |
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(Transcript from World News Radio) Indonesian activists have launched a campaign to send money to Prime Minister Tony Abbott. It follows comments he made last week linking clemency pleas for two Australians on death row to past Australian aid to Indonesia. Santilla Chingaipe reports. |
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Cook County judges ordered record numbers of criminal defendants onto electronic home monitoring last year — a 70 percent increase that has eased overcrowding in the jail but has also created new concerns for the sheriff's office, which must watch over those released. |
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The regional court in Hradec Králové on Monday sentenced 26-year-old convict Patrik Kónya – already serving a sentence in Valdice prison for murder – to 30 years behind bars for an attack on his cellmate that left the other man in critical condition. The attacker admitted to the crime during police.... |
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23-02-2015 09:47 | Ian Willoughby The organisers of the annual Czech Lion film awards have admitted that Jim Carrey did not attend Saturday night’s prize-giving ceremony in Prague. They had previously insisted that a lookalike who appeared briefly on stage at the event was the Hollywood star,.... |
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THE body of Mr. David de Groot, member of the Board of Directors of the Guyana National Newspapers Ltd (GNNL) and former Parliamentary Secretary with responsibility for Community Development in the Office of the Prime Minister, was yesterday cremated at Memorial Gardens Crematorium, Plantation Le.... |
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MANAMA: A Libyan radio station, captured by the Islamic State (IS) recently, yesterday broadcast speeches and lectures by Turki Al Binali, a senior ex-Bahraini preacher of the extremist group, according to alarabiya.net website. |
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The statuettes will be handed out in the early hours of tomorrow morning in a ceremony at The Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles, hosted by How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris. Irish animators, Cartoon Saloon, is in the running for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for its film Song of the Sea. |
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They were sure she was an underground leader’s lover; they nearly had her after they found her abandoned bicycle; but she dyed her blonde hair dark and eluded them, after two and a half years of clandestine resistance to the Nazi jackboot that was crushing her country. |
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The Czech minister of foreign affairs, Lubomír Zaorálek, attended a march in the Ukrainian capital Kiev marking the first anniversary of the Maidan protests on Sunday. Mr. Zaorálek said those who had gathered were expressing their strong support for Ukraine’s leadership, particularly President Petro Poroshenko. |
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