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Women will no longer face prison for ending a pregnancy. There are two reasons why this reform was urgently needed ...

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Labour has quietly dropped legal fight over unlawful crackdown on protest. But what about those already arrested?

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Binyamin Netanyahu ’s government in Israel remains insistent that Iran is the main threat to the entire region. This morning ...