More than half of Britons want to ban the burqa, despite what our preachy liberal elite would have you think and other top stories.

• More than half of Britons want to ban the burqa, despite what our preachy liberal elite would have you think

  The EU referendum campaign gave the great and good an ideal platform to patronise and preach to Britain. The bien pensant Remainers scoffed at the very idea of Brexit and those who would be tempted by it. Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder dismissed anyone who wanted Britain to leave as "lemmings" and described what they wanted as "idiotic". She clearly hadn't learnt from the European elections in 2014, which saw voters back Ukip en masse and boot out all of her fellow Lib Dem colleagues. S..

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• Does Anyone in Syria Fear International Law?

  

  The horror of Syria’s war is in the millions of pictures that are too gruesome to circulate—charred limbs stacked outside hospital wards, bloated bodies rotting in sniper alleys, a toddler plucked from the rubble without a head. It is in a group of relatives trying to carry the sixty-pound corpse of a man who died of hunger—the boiled grass he’d been living on could no longer sustain him—but struggling under his weight, because they, too, are starving to death. It is in a generation of orphans,..

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• Europe migrant crisis: Angela Merkel isolated on refugees

  

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• Time for Temer

  

  THE street vendors who set up around Brazil's congress must have been disappointed. Police had expected thousands to gather for the closing stages of the impeachment trial of Dilma Rousseff, Brazil's president. But when the senate voted by 61 to 20 to ...

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• Japan woos Russia with deeper economic ties in face of rising China

  

  Japan woos Russia with deeper economic ties in face of rising China By Reuters Published: 23:39 EST, 31 August 2016 | Updated: 23:39 EST, 31 August 2016 By Kiyoshi TakenakaTOKYO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Japan is hoping the lure of deeper economic ties with Russia will strengthen strategic relations in the face of a rising China, but sceptics question whether the approach will generate a breakthrough in a decades-old territorial dispute.Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet Russian..

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