The U.S. government will pay $1.26 million to five Muslim men detained for months without charges after the September 11 attacks who sued for unlawful imprisonment and abuse, their lawyers said on Tuesday.
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November 3rd, 2009
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November 2nd, 2009
The number of 14-year-olds having abortions has soared by almost a quarter in two years.
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November 2nd, 2009
A health trust is to expand a controversial scheme to allow girls as young as 11 to demand the morning-after pill by text.
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November 2nd, 2009
A Christian registrar should not have been disciplined for refusing to carry out same-sex 'marriages' because modern human rights should not be allowed to 'obliterate religious beliefs held for millennia', the appeal court has heard.
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November 2nd, 2009
Women who have an abortion can be at increased risk of anxiety and depression, according to the results of a new study.
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November 2nd, 2009
A Christian registrar who claimed she faced religious discrimination after she refused to conduct civil partnership ceremonies will have her case heard in the Court of Appeal today.
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November 2nd, 2009
A Christian registrar disciplined by her north London council after she refused to conduct same-sex civil partnerships took her discrimination claim to the Court of Appeal.
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November 2nd, 2009
A Government minister is aiming to become the first homosexual MP to get 'married' in the House of Commons, it emerged today.
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November 2nd, 2009
Even with the age of Obama dawning, for too many black Americans life is still fraught with the same old 'us against them' sort of thinking. Where once militant blacks paraded in pseudo military garb claiming the mantle of 'black power' and patterning themselves as 'panthers' thrusting an angry fist into the air, now they cling to the separatist ideals of militant Islam.
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November 2nd, 2009
'Hizb ut-Tahrir: Ideology and Strategy' is the most comprehensive study of the party?s activities in the United Kingdom to date. The report looks into Hizb ut-Tahrir?s ideology and the subversive tactics used to embed itself into communities and downplay its intolerant beliefs. The report concludes with a detailed analysis of the policies the government could adopt to limit the influence of Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK.