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THE SUN News, May 20, 2013


UK: The Sun's politics editor charged over bribery
Lexington Herald Leader
LONDON — Britain's prosecutors say that a politics and government editor with The Sun tabloid has been charged over a conspiracy to pay thousands of pounds (dollars) worth of bribes to a press officer working in the British government's tax department.
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UK campaign group loses challenge on tax deal

SunHerald.com
LONDON — A U.K. pressure group Thursday lost its legal challenge to what it called a "sweetheart" tax deal between U.K. authorities and Goldman Sachs. UK Uncut Legal Action, which campaigns against tax avoidance, had sought a High Court declaration ...
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UK outlines troop plans in Afghanistan

SunHerald.com
LONDON — Some British troops will be serving longer tours of duty as the U.K. prepares to end its combat role in Afghanistan, Britain's defense secretary said Tuesday. Philip Hammond told lawmakers that Britain's combat role will still close by the ...
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Crucial evidence to be secret in Litvinenko probe

SunHerald.com
LONDON — A coroner overseeing a British inquest into the poisoning death of a former Russian security agent has ruled that he can't consider evidence on whether the Russian state was involved in the killing. Robert Owen said he accepted an application ...
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UK's Lord Ahmed resigns from Labour Party

SunHerald.com
LONDON — A member of Britain's House of Lords has quit the Labour Party days before he was due to face a hearing over allegations he made anti-Semitic remarks in a television interview. Nazir Ahmed was suspended from the Labour Party in March ...
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UK: Undercover officers used IDs of dead children

SunHerald.com
LONDON — A senior U.K. policeman says that British undercover officers often used the identities of dead children as aliases, confirming a recent newspaper report which first exposed the ghoulish practice. Chief Constable Mick Creedon said Friday that ...
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Royal infant on the way, but housing unclear

SunHerald.com
Britain's Prince William and Kate, formally known as the Duchess of Cambridge, plan to move into apartments at London's Kensington Palace soon after the baby is born in July. Few will ever get a glimpse inside the room where the future British monarch ...
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Fitch downgrades Slovenia amid banking concerns

SunHerald.com
LONDON — Fitch Ratings agency has downgraded Slovenia's credit grade by one notch, citing a weak economic outlook and a frail banking system. It cut the government bond rating to BBB+ from A-, which is still investment grade. It left a negative ...
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UK retailers relax rules on GM poultry feed

SunHerald.com
LONDON — Three major British grocery chains have ended their bans on providing genetically modified feed to chickens. Sainsbury's, the Co-operative Group and Marks & Spencer cited short supplies of non-GM feed as the reason for the change.
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Sun reporter, press officer charged in British bribery probe

Channel News Asia
LONDON: A journalist with Rupert Murdoch's top-selling British tabloid The Sun and a government press officer have been charged over the leaking of economic policies in exchange for money, prosecutors said on Tuesday. The Sun's Whitehall ... They are ...
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EU antitrust officials investigate BP, Statoil

SunHerald.com
LONDON — European anti-trust authorities have launched investigations into at least three oil companies on suspicion of price-fixing. ... Platts, which compiles prices for energy markets, said the Commission also visited its London operations on Tuesday.
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Bank of England sees 'modest, sustained' recovery

SunHerald.com
LONDON — The Bank of England predicted a modest and sustained economic recovery for Britain on Wednesday, but tempered hope that the worst might be over with predictions that inflation will remain above its targets for the next two years. In ...
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Pics clicked by chimp to fetch up to £70000 at London auction

Hindustan Times
The 15-year-old chimp's snaps of Moscow's Red Square are said to represent his take on the world in a place where millions of photos are taken by tourists, The Sun reported. The collection — called Our Moscow through the Eyes of Mikki — will be sold ...
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Audio tours highlight London's wonders - Vancouver Sun

Vancouver Sun
A full day touring the city, its museums and famous sites, can cost less than $100, including meals. By Rick steves, Special to The Sun May 14, 2013. Tweet. Comment. 0 ... Wandering past war memorials like the Cenotaph, honouring those who died in the ...
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Hatem Ben Arfa riles Newcastle fans by 'training' in a PSG kit

The Sun
EXCLUSIVE: CARING actress — currently playing the monarch on stage in London — dressed up as Her Maj and invited 10-year-old Oliver Burton round for tea. Brave Oliver has twice beaten leukaemia, but at Christmas was diagnosed with cancer in his ...
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UK casino accuses US poker star Ivey of cheating

Chicago Sun-Times
tmspicid: 18332593 fileheaderid: 8238040. LONDON (AP) — A major casino operator is accusing Phil Ivey, an American who is one of the world's top professional poker players, of amassing millions of dollars in winnings by cheating at baccarat. Court ...
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LulzSec 'hactivists' caused websites to crash across the world for their own ...

Belfast Telegraph
The court was told the former soldier had hacked into News International diverting readers of the Sun'swebsite to a fake story about Rupert Murdoch committing suicide. Al-Bassam, 18, from Peckham, southLondon, was still at school and used the alias ...
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EU pledges $675 million toward Mali reconstruction

SunHerald.com
LONDON — The British government says it will pledge 128 million pounds ($195 million) to help make Mali and the West African Sahel more secure. The announcement comes as representatives of 103 countries and organizations are meeting in Brussels to ...
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Britain's oldest pet dies at 130

The Sun
Glorious moments included England's 1966 World Cup win, the 1969 Moon landings and Usain Bolt's 100m and 200m golds at London 2012. Neville Chamberlain and Thomas the tortoise. 'Pet for our time' ... Neville Chamberlain speaks out before WW2 ...
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David Beckham's best 10 goals

The Sun
THE lad from Leytonstone in East London would go on to play for the world's biggest clubs. And he did not score all that often — but when he did, they were generally spectacular. Managers from Alex Ferguson to Sven-Goran Eriksson to Fabio Capello knew ...
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Israeli leader under fire for costly lifestyle

SunHerald.com
The uproar, which began with a TV station's report that Netanyahu spent $127,000 in public funds for a special sleeping cabin on a recent five-hour flight to London, fuels criticism that he is out of touch with average Israelis who are struggling with ...
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King Solomun

The Sun
SOLOMUN has become one of the most in demand DJs in the world, from London to Brazil, Miami to Ibiza where he plays this year's International Music Summit at the end of May as well as playing a special event for Kweek Week at Battersea Power Station ...
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G-7 says Japan playing by currency rules

Chicago Sun-Times
“The will is still there to reduce the deficits but there is certainly a change of tone,” said Pierre Moscovici, France's finance minister at the conclusion of the two-day summit at a country house around 50 miles northwest of London. Japan, the world ...
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Jordana Brewster turns on the heat in lingerie

Himalayan Times
Dallas star Jordana - who stars alongside Paul Walker in FF6 - regularly makes world's sexiest women lists. LONDON: Fast And Furious star Jordana Brewster knows how to get pulses racing — showing off her chassis in silky black lingerie, reported ...
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BP challenges 'fictitious' claims from oil spill

SunHerald.com
LONDON — British government officials said Thursday that BP has not sought Prime Minister David Cameron's help in reducing compensation claims for its role in the disastrous 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. U.K. media reports claim BP will ask ...
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David Beckham announces his retirement

The Sun
London-born Becks, 38, played for some of the world's top clubs in Manchester United, Real Madrid, LA Galaxy, AC Milan and Paris St Germain — winning league titles in four different countries. He said: “I'm very proud of my career.” David Beckham Leo ...
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