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U.K. Pensions Secretary Quits Over Welfare Cuts for Disabled
Iain Duncan Smith, the former Conservative Party leader, resigned as U.K. work and pensions secretary in protest at planned cuts to welfare payments for the disabled, issuing a direct attack on the man behind them, Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne. By Robert Hutton.
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5 Yemeni Guantánamo Inmates Are Sent to United Arab Emirates
The lower-level detainees had been held for nearly 14 years but never charged with a crime, and their transfers reduce the population at the prison in Cuba to 107. By Charlie Savage.
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Shaker Aamer released from Guantánamo Bay after 14-year detention
No 10 says no plan to detain British resident on return from imprisonment without trial in US military camp where he was beaten.