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C4 accused of falsifying data in documentary on climate change

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Steve Connor The makers of a Channel 4 documentary which claimed that global warming is a swindle have been accused of fabricating data by one of the scientists who participated in the film. The

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‘War is peace’

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Orwellian theories are being acted out in Israel – as persecution against Palestinians begins to echo 1984. Nimer Sultany It is one thing to read George Orwell and Franz Kafka, it is quite another

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Israel accused of prisoner abuse

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Tim Franks   Human rights groups in Israel have accused the security services of routinely mistreating Palestinian detainees. The two groups said detainees were held in appalling conditions, and were sometimes tortured. They said the

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Management shortcomings seen at NSA

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Siobhan Gorman In a sharp rebuke to the National Security Agency’s leadership, an internal task force has concluded that the country’s largest intelligence agency lacks vision and is unable to set objectives and meet

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World Bank Panel Finds Wolfowitz at Fault; Aide Resigns

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STEVEN R. WEISMAN A committee of World Bank directors has formally notified Paul D. Wolfowitz that they found him to be guilty of a conflict of interest in arranging for a pay raise and

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