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Pressure mounts on Thai junta over fake bomb detectors

  Bangkok / AFP Activists on Monday urged Britain to hand over details of the multi-million-dollar sale to Thailand of fake bomb detectors that led to the detention of scores of innocent people. British fraudster Gary Bolton was jailed in 2013 for making millions selling the GT200—which he billed as a “magic wand” able to detect tiny particles of explosives ...

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Voters OK contentious French airport site

  France / AFP Voters in western France gave the go-ahead on Sunday to a controversial airport development that has been at the centre of a years-long battle between environmental activists and the government. The local referendum on the new Nantes Atlantique airport passed with a 55 percent majority, ending a 50 year argument that saw the government’s environment advisers ...

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UK Labour leader defies revolt over Brexit strategy

  London / AFP Britain’s opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn insisted he would not give up his job in a Labour Party revolt over his handling of the EU referendum campaign, as the aftershocks from the “Leave” vote reverberate around the country. Eleven members of the veteran socialist’s top team resigned Sunday, blaming him for failing to rally the party’s core working-class ...

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