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Brown: I got NHS apology over son

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
NHS chiefs apologised to Gordon Brown after revealing it was "highly likely" staff disclosed details of his son's cystic fibrosis that later appeared in the Sun, he tells the Leveson Inquiry.
Categories: BBC, News

Attacks on guide dogs 'rising'

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Attacks on guide dogs by other dogs have reached a new high of more than eight a month, a charity says.
Categories: BBC, News

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Pinochet homage heats up bitter debate over legacy

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- The poster makes its plea from one of the pock-marked walls once splattered with blood at Londres 38, a former detention and torture center where 96 people were killed or disappeared during Chile's long dictatorship. It reads: "Pinochet, may your legacy die."...

Labour 'cuts rhetoric' not enough

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Labour must move beyond its opposition to austerity and spell out what it would do in power, the GMB union warns ahead of its annual conference.
Categories: BBC, News

Housing statistics use criticised

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Labour writes to the UK Statistics Authority to complain at "consistent misrepresentation and misuse" of data by Housing Minister Grant Shapps.
Categories: BBC, News

Europe's Latest Bailout

Opinion Journal - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Greece, Ireland, Portugal and now Spanish banks.


Spain deal boosts euro and stocks

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Stocks in Asia and the euro make gains as a eurozone deal to shore up Spain's troubled banks provides a boost to the single currency.
Categories: BBC, News

Helicopter crash: Kenya govt minister among 6 dead

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people when the police helicopter they were traveling in crashed in a forest near Kenya's capital, officials said. An anti-corruption crusader said the incident calls into question the government's procurement of airplanes and helicopters for its security forces....

Helicopter crash: Kenya govt minister among 6 dead

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Kenya's internal security minister was killed with five other people when the police helicopter they were traveling in crashed in a forest near Kenya's capital, officials said. An anti-corruption crusader said the incident calls into question the government's procurement of airplanes and helicopters for its security forces....

Focus group shows Bain image hurting Romney

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
There has been much speculation about whether the ads that President Barack Obama's campaign and its supporters have been running that are critical of Mitt Romney's tenure at Bain Capital will be effective. There is also lots of critiquing of the reasons and effectiveness of first lady Michelle Obama's appearances on talk shows and reality shows ("The Biggest Loser," "Late Show With David Letterman," "The Daily Show," etc.).
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Castellanos: 'Anti-business' label could hurt Obama

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Are the attacks on Mitt Romney's career in private equity at Bain Capital working? Alex Castellanos says a deep look at the polls shows they are not
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Giffords stumps for former aide

CNN - Politics - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Former Democratic Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords made a rare appearance before a cheering crowd of supporters at a "Get out the vote" concert in downtown Tucson.
Categories: CNN, Issues, Politics

Silicon Valley Bank opens in UK

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
Silicon Valley Bank, the US hi-tech bank with $20bn in assets, opens its first UK branch offering banking and loan services to the UK tech industry.
Categories: BBC, News

Affairs of politics and heart mark French election

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
PARIS (AP) -- Back-room deals, black lists and bitter duels. Political and personal intrigue has wormed its way into Sunday's final round of French legislative elections. President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party is battling to assure a solid majority and fulfill his vows to boost growth in Europe and redefine the presidency as one beholden to the people....

Hollande's leftists ahead in parliamentary vote

AP - World News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, bolstered by leftist allies, stands positioned to take control of the lower house of parliament so he can revamp a country his partisans see as too capitalist for the French, and push to save the eurozone through growth, not austerity....

Flash flooding causes M1 closure

BBC - News - Tue, 2025-05-20 17:58
The M1 in West Yorkshire is closed following sudden torrential downpours leading to flash flooding.
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