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Holyrood's watershed

Published Date: 22 November 2009 These issues – of the question wording and the timing and the stance the SNP adopts – are crucial DRESSED in a smart black suit, black shirt and black tie, Jim Murphy stepped out of his...

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Labour spells out budget demands

Published Date: 22 November 2009 By Tom Peterkin Scottish Political Editor LABOUR'S Scottish leader Iain Gray has laid out the conditions under which his party will support the SNP government's forthcoming spending budget....

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Gerald Warner: Defeat these Trojan-horse parties or Britain is doomed

Published Date: 22 November 2009 Anti-EU leaders must arise to overthrow the Vichy Tories EUROPE, like pre-unification Italy, is a geographical expression. It began life credibly enough as the European Coal and Steel Community....

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Zorn: Senators must now face the debate

The Republican leader, Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, said the vote (to allow the health-care reform bill to the floor for debate) was anything but procedural — casting it as a referendum on the bill itself, which he said...

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Irish 'disease' is alive and kicking. We are 'staring down barrel of a loaded gun'

I interviewed Pat Cox for my book just before the Lisbon Treaty referendum in which he had spearheaded the Yes campaign. That referendum took place the month before the France-Ireland World Cup fiasco. A good thing too. Had the...

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Romanians vote for president amid political crisis

By ALISON MUTLER Associated Press Writer BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) -- Romanians began voting for a new president on Sunday in an election that could open the door to an international loan aimed at ending the country's deep...

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Upcoming Swiss vote over minarets raises concerns

A scheduled referendum in Switzerland on Nov. 29 over whether to allow the construction of minarets triggered by an initiative promoted by the far-right Swiss People’s Party has raised eyebrows in predominantly Muslim Turkey.

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Grand Forks Herald, N.D., Matters At Hand column: MATTERS AT HAND: Two things to avoid in local...

Nov 22, 2009 (Grand Forks Herald - First, on the Sioux nickname and logo: Don't blame American Indians. And on the Alerus Center: Don't let the City Council take over. The Alerus Center is governed by a commission which reports...

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School referendum gives taxpayers say over their wallets

well" in Indiana. Capital construction projects and operational increases for schools have failed more often than not since November 2008 – a 58 percent failure rate overall and 65 percent when considering just capital-project...

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Sudan's elections to be held on scheduled time: first vice-president

KHARTOUM, Nov. 21 (Xinhua) -- Sudan's First Vice-President and President of southern Sudan government Salva Kiir Mayardit said Saturday that Sudan's general elections would be held on its fixed time in April 2010. "The...

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