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FILES - A picture taken on November 5, 2014 shows French writer Michel Houellebecq posing during his photo exhibition 'Before Landing' at the Pavillon Carre de Baudouin in Paris. Houellebecq attacks French newspaper 'Le Monde' on trial for 'copyright infringement' and 'violation of the secrecy of his correspondence,' the newspaper announced on September 9, 2015 on its website. AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA

Myth and reality

The debate on Islam has been reduced to carping about Islamophobia. This not only alienates people whose support Muslims need to fight real Islamophob

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A man fires a RPG in this still image taken from an undated recruitment video for the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) shot at an unknown location and uploaded to a social media website on June 19, 2014. Five Islamist fighters identified as Australian and British nationals have called on Muslims to join the wars in Syria and Iraq, in the new video released by ISIL. REUTERS/Social Media Video via REUTERS TV (Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT CIVIL UNREST)

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Home-grown jehadis

Brainwashed by Islamist propaganda in Internet chat rooms and secret conclaves, hordes of British Muslim youths are tripping on jehadi safaris, volunt

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(FILES) In a file picture taken on January 18, 2011 a general view of the Sculeni border crossing point from Romania to the Republic of Moldova. Britain is gripped by fresh fears that a new wave of immigrant workers will arrive after restrictions on Bulgarian and Romanian nationals are lifted on January 1. The government has rushed through legislation restricting EU migrants from claiming unemployment handouts. Ministers refuse to give any official figure of how many Bulgarians and Romanians it expects to come to Britain, but estimates vary from 30,000 to 70,000 a year. AFP PHOTO / DANIEL MIHAILESCU

Free Europe in shackles

A leaked British government proposal to cap immigration from E.U. member-states has provoked fury across Europe, with the U.K.’s allies accusing it of

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Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham is seen in this undated handout aerial photograph. The Guardian newspaper reported on June 7, 2013 that Britain's eavesdropping and security agency, GCHQ, had been secretly gathering intelligence from a secret programme involving the internet companies code-named PRISM and had had access to the system since at least June 2010. GCHQ said in an emailed statement to Reuters: 'Our work is carried out in accordance with a strict legal and policy framework which ensures that our activities are authorised, necessary and proportionate'. Reuters/Handout (BRITAIN - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS BUSINESS TELECOMS) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Thick as thieves

The David Cameron government, whose surveillance department has all along colluded with the CIA, provokes anger and ridicule by resorting to an all-to

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Guilty, by implication

The Butler inquiry avoids blaming the government for using bad intelligence to justify the war on Iraq, but Tony Blair stands accused of misleading Pa

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The Hutton twist

The conclusions of the Hutton report, which have surprised even ardent supporters of the Tony Blair government, may have dangerous consequences for th

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A probe of sorts

It is widely believed that the Hutton inquiry is designed to let the Tony Blair government off the hook, as its brief is restricted to the circumstanc

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A witch-hunt in Britain

The Blair government picks a fight with the BBC to cover up its own difficulties over Iraq, thereby setting off a chain of events ending in the suicid

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Blair's burden

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The Irish vote and after

Ireland votes `yes' for European Union enlargement, but the expansion prospects are still dicey.

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Ennui in Europe

A look at the balance sheet at the end of Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's week-long European tour.

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Unease in Europe

THE trans-Atlantic rift between the United States and its European allies over Iraq could not have been more bitter, and public. It has even turned ru

HASAN SUROOR in London