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Documents disclosed in Guardian lawsuit reveal for first time how Chicago police used punches, baton blows and Tasers at the off-the-books interrogation site
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Jihadi group never intended to target Belgian capital but was lining up an attack this summer in France, says Libération
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Community of 2,000 has seen more than 100 attempts in seven months, says chief, as country’s indigenous people continue to face higher levels of poverty
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More than a quarter of a million people have fled in terror as opposition militias plot their return. Without international assistance a humanitarian disaster looms
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UKUKSerious defects found at two more Edinburgh schools built using PFIUrgent inspections following emergency closure of 17 schools uncover faults at Gracemount and Craigmount secondaries
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EuropeEuropeTurkey asks Germany to prosecute comedian over Erdoğan poemJan Böhmermann accused Turkish president of ‘repressing minorities, kicking Kurds and slapping Christians’ in satirical sketch
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Parks atop malls, breweries galore and an influx of Toronto transplants are all helping transform Steeltown into a port city that can be proud of how it combines urban, industrial and green space
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In 1955, Sophiatown was one of the last areas of black home-ownership in Johannesburg. Then the bulldozers arrived to evict these residents, confirming apartheid’s brutal suppression of black upward mobility
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Myanmar can flourish by sowing seeds of agricultural prosperity
Deirdre May Culley and Martha BaxterTo build on its historic election victory, Myanmar’s ruling party must invest in agriculture to tackle poverty and stimulate growth -
With just nine cases of the virus so far this year – in Pakistan and Afghanistan – the WHO is confident the battle against polio is nearly won
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Historical societies withered because the rich did not pay their taxes – we must not let the Panama Papers revelations pass without taking action
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Paul Manafort will help steady the ship – but with a campaign scrambling to catch up organizationally, the question is whether it will be too little, too late
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UN envoy says future role of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is ‘mother of all issues’ to overcome
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Russia's 'offshore bandits' expose the Kremlin's deep hypocrisy
Oliver BulloughRevelations in the Panama Papers reveal the facade of anti-western rhetoric as details of overseas accounts are laid bare
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A team of Guardian US journalists investigate what the US government hasn’t: the number of people killed by law enforcement in America
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John Kerry, the US secretary of state, speaks from the Hiroshima prefecture in Japan on Monday after touring the peace park
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Malaysian civil defence officers look after a python, measuring nearly eight-metres in length, after it was caught in Penang, northern Malaysia on Thursday
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A video claiming to show a bear chasing a snowboarder in Japan’s Hakuba 47 resort has gone viral
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A cyclist is hit by a car turning at a roundabout in Blackwood, South Australia
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More than 1,000 foreigners are among those taking part in an international marathon in the North Korean capital
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Refugees and migrants stranded near the Greek village of Idomeni tear through a border fence into Macedonia
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Demand for World Bank loans nears crisis levels