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Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage,… Read more »

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Tribunal rules no automatic risk to people sent back to Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe
Govt wins right to send Zimbabweans back

The government has won the right to send failed asylum seekers back to Zimbabwe, after a court decided there was no automatic risk of their being tortured on return. Immigration minister Liam Byrne said the government would now resume the enforced deportation of Zimbabweans who it considered were not at genuine risk of ill-treatment. However,… Read more »

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Bob Geldof delivered an updates on reducing poverty in Africa
Geldof: trade progress ‘unseemingly ugly’

Bob Geldof has delivered his assessment of progress made in tackling poverty in Africa nearly one year on from the G8 summit in Gleneagles. The anti-poverty campaigner said it was a case of the “good, the ok and the ugly”, as he detailed the findings of a report by campaign group Data, which he founded… Read more »