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• Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker – Washington Post

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 174
  Globe and Mail Britain strongly condemns China for execution of drug trafficker Washington Post Britain and China were engaged in a fierce diplomatic argument Tuesday after the Chinese government executed a British citizen for drug trafficking despite claims that he was mentally ill and unfit to ...
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• Akmal Shaikh: China refers to controversial Opium Wars with Britain

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  Chinese embassy refers to the controversial role Britain played in supplying opium to China following the execution of Briton Akmal Shaikh.
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• EU condemns China’s execution of ‘mentally ill’ Briton

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  Moscow, Dec 30 (RIA Novosti) The European Union (EU) Tuesday condemned the execution by China of a British man said to be suffering from a mental illness on drug-smuggling charges.Akmal Shaikh, 53, was put to death by lethal injection earlier on Tuesday, becoming the first Western European to be executed in China in ...
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• Gordon Brown: Recovery will lead to decade of shared prosperity

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Prime ministers new year message combines emphasis on fairness with faith in Britains dynamic entrepreneurs A defiantly optimistic Gordon Brown today promises "a decade of shared prosperity ahead for Britain, provided that economic recovery, frontline public services and entrepreneurship can be protected from ...
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• The trouble with Twitter | James Harkin

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Far from delivering a wisdom of crowds, social networking sites have created only a deafening banality In 2003, in an elaborate joke on New Yorks media-savvy, empty-headed hipsters, a journalist called Bill Wasik sent around an anonymous email suggesting that they congregate at a department store at the same time ...
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• Der Clünkerbunkers Retreat From Copenhagen

  
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• Akmal Shaikh: China warns Britain as row over executed Briton intensifies

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  China has warned Britain that it must stop its fierce condemnation of the execution of Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, or risk harming diplomatic ties between the two countries.
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• Fury as China executes ‘mentally ill’ Briton

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec 29 (IANS) Britain reacted with fury Tuesday as China refused to heed pleas for pardon and executed a convicted Briton who is thought to be mentally ill.Pakistan-born Akmal Shaikh, who was arrested at Urumqi airport in September 2007 for carrying four kg of heroin, became the first European to be executed ...
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• China Executes British Citizen – Voice of America

  
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  Globe and Mail China Executes British Citizen Voice of America Photo: AP China has executed a British man with reported mental health problems for drug smuggling, despite last minute appeals by the British government and his relatives. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown condemned Akmal Shaikhs ...
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• Why denouncing China is hypocritical| Michael White

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  There are good reasons why China is likely to be impervious to lectures from Europeans on the morality of the drugs trade Im sorry too that the Chinese have just executed Akmal Shaikh, an apparently mentally ill Briton . He was clearly an expendable drugs mule, cynically exploited by traffickers who are still alive ...
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• Meet the fortune-teller who makes predictions using asparagus

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London, Dec 29 (ANI): A fortune-teller uses asparagus to get a peek into the future, and has used the vegetable to predict the headlines for next year.Mystic Jemima Packington has predicted that Gordon Brown will be ousted in the general election and that the economy will continue on a slow burn.Packington, who claims ...
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• Execution of Briton Akmal Shaikh: China defiant in the face of criticism

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  China has warned Britain it risks harming diplomatic relations between the two countries after Gordon Brown condemned the execution of Briton Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling.
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• Shaikh’s execution unlikely to damage Sino-UK ties

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 741
  London/Beijing, Dec. 29 (ANI): Britisher Akmal Shaikh’s execution in China on Wednesday for drug smuggling is unlikely to damage Sino-UK ties in the long term.Shaikh’s execution, despite repeated pleas for clemency by Prime Minister Gordon Brown to President Hu Jintao, though will do nothing to improve the mood ...
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• British citizen Akmal Shaikh executed in China: Gordon Brown appalled

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 965
  As last-minute appeals for clemency fail, China defends the execution of Akmal Shaikh for drug smuggling, saying the evidence of his mental illness was "insufficient".
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• China executes Briton condemned for drugs

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 525
  The British government has confirmed that China executed Akmal Shaikh, a British citizen, for drug smuggling. The man was considered by his family and the government to be mentally unstable but China ignored a request from Gordon Brown, British prime minister, to treat him with clemency. Official Chinese news agency ...
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• THE PLANE TRUTH – THE UK IS A SOFT TOUCH FOR TERRORISTS

  
  CALEDONIAN COMMENT — Authority: 117
  Air travellers across the world face yet more tough restrictions after an Islamic nutcase of a passenger came within seconds of destroying a transatlantic plane and killing all 289 people on board. US President Obama interrupted his Christmas holiday to order 2 anti-terrorism reviews as aviation chiefs acted to close ...
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• The inconvenient truths about Tory councils | Jon Cruddas and Chuka Umunna

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  David Cameron claims that the Conservatives are a progressive party in local government. The facts show the opposite A general election announcement could be less than eight weeks away if Gordon Brown plumps for a March poll. Whenever it happens, over 9 million people under the age of 30 will be eligible to vote ...
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• Gladstone was a political giant compared to our puny, modern MPs | Geoffrey Wheatcroft

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 985
  Born 200 years ago today, Gladstones vast intellect and personal dynamism inspired awed admiration from political friend and foe alike On the day in March 1894 when William Ewart Gladstone resigned as prime minister for the last time, he went to church, wrote half a dozen letters and saw half a dozen people, before ...
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• Gordon Brown’s £3,100 Bounced Cheque

  
  The Daily Dust | UK News | Good News — Authority: 488
  Refused Rent cheque from University fetches £3,101 on Ebay. Someone picked up a rather appropriate novelty on Ebay just before Christmas – the cheque Gordon Brown bounced on his landlord from his University days in 1972! The wife of Brown’s old warden, Bill Paterson, put the cheque up for sale on the ...
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• Healthy Weight Loss at Chiva-Som International Health Resort, Thailand

  
  Health Care Media Center — Authority: 132
  Many of us would like to lose some weight. We would look and feel better, and it’s well documented that being the optimum weight has significant health benefits. The problem is, it’s not easy, either to lose the weight or to maintain the loss. But there are measures that can help. The key is organisation and ...
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