UKIP is eating away at the two biggest parties in the UK; Labour and the Conservatives.
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Three Foxconn workers have committed suicide at a factory in China in the past three weeks, state media and a labour rights group said Saturday.
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North Korea on Saturday launched three short range guided missiles into the sea off the Korean Peninsula’s east coast, South Korea’s Ministry of Defense said. The ministry said it detected two launches in the morning, followed by another in the afternoon. It said the missiles were fired in a northeasterly direction away from South Korean waters.
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The plan was to withdraw the reward because Dorner was killed and not captured. But a judge stopped this and has ordered the reward to be split up in three portions.
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In the United States, three young women who have been missing for more than a decade have been found alive. Amanda Berry and Gina De Jesus were teenagers when they disappeared within a year of each other in Cleveland, Ohio. Police also found Michelle Knight who was 20-years old when she vanished.
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Almost a week old, but very relevant. The whole Dutch economy is based on unsustainable household debts, there are very few nations deeper in debt. Now that the housing bubble is bursting it all comes crashing down…
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Corruption is costing EU countries �323 billion annually, says a new report, defying Europe’s image as a global front-runner in the fight against graft.
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Syrian rebels have set three oil wells in the east of the country ablaze, causing a daily loss of nearly 5,000 barrels of oil and 52,000 cubic meters of gas, state media quoted an oil ministry official as saying on Sunday.
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“The decision to crush Cypriot depositors (first all of them, then just the uninsured ones) came in March, without any prior hints of the carnage that was about to be unleashed upon Cypriot bank unsecured liabilities. Or so the media narrative goes, because the last thing needed is to give skeptics any indication the “ad hoc” Troika plan was not so ad hoc after all…”
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Catastrophic nuclear accidents, like Chernobyl in 1986 or Fukushima No. 1 in 2011, are very rare, we’re incessantly told, and their probability of occurring infinitesimal. But when they do occur, they get costly. So costly that the French government, when it came up with cost estimates, kept them secret.
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