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...trader about the alleged 2006 dumping of toxic waste off the Ivory Coast by a ship chartered by the company. The lawyers then tried to stop the Guardian from telling its readers about a written question lodged in Parliament this week by Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP. His question mentioned both the secret injunction and the report. (Read "Bobby on the Tweet: British Police Try Twitter...
...Blaney's high-profile action also highlights the increasing dangers of identity misappropriation as Twitter and other social-networking sites become staple tools of political campaigning. Kerry McCarthy, an MP appointed by Labour as the party's "Twitter czar," has already intervened to stop two well-meaning Labour supporters from tweeting as other people in a misguided effort to boost the party (one posed as an MP, the other as an official Labour outlet). @lordmandelson, a fake version of Business Secretary Lord Mandelson, has also suspended activities. The Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, who now tweets as @DMiliband, was beaten...
...hour military patrols. I would go out there and patrol alone, and the blokes who did them with me would also patrol alone. There was absolutely no difference in the tasks we did," she says. Now a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and an MP for Kevin Rudd's Labor Party, Voltz says she joined the military police because in 1987 it was the only military corps in which, as a woman, she would see some action. "I wasn't going to join the army to cook, or to type, or to be a signaler in some...
...explain the reasons Danish troops were in Afghanistan. As a consequence, he says, support for the mission has held up better in Denmark than elsewhere. The British might learn a lesson from that. Gordon Brown has frequently tried to explain the Afghanistan mission. But David Davis, a prominent opposition MP and a former Foreign Office minister, argues that public support has dropped because of a "lack of clarity about what we're trying to achieve." Davis claims that "the aims of the war have been changing week by week" and that Brown falls back on a "grotesque oversimplification that there...
...story. Australia's conservative opposition, the Liberal Party of Australia, is now calling for Neville to step down. "The clear lack of knowledge that the minister had of any of these issues displays a fundamental failure, and lack of competency on her behalf," said Mary Wooldridge, an MP for the Liberal Party. "She is not doing...