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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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Tony Blair is embarking on a farewell tour to Africa
Blair’s farewell to Africa

Tony Blair is embarking on a farewell tour to Africa, taking in Libya, Sierra Leone, and South Africa in an effort to publicise a new world trade deal. In the last ten years the prime minister has devoted more of Britain’s energies to Africa than at any time since the empire, and as his premiership… Read more »

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Beckett pledges £100m for Iraq reconstruction
Beckett commits more aid to ‘stabilise’ Iraq

The foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has pledged more aid for Iraq, in an attempt to stabilise the increasingly violent country. Speaking at the launch of the International Compact with Iraq in Egypt, Ms Beckett committed the UK to an additional £100 million for reconstruction in Iraq. Total UK aid for humanitarian relief and reconstruction in… Read more »