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...The exact number of Britons still in north-east Syria is unknown, but human rights charity Reprieve estimates that 21 women, 12 men and 38 children from the UK are stuck there....
...In the wake of the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010, unknown amounts of untraceable corporate spending intended to influence elections and legislation have been sloshing around the system...
...The bitter fight between president Nouri al-Maliki and vice-president Tariq al-Hashemi and shadow boxing between Baghdad and the Kurdistan authorities have attracted deserved, although often partisan, media...
...For Christians, Islamism is a leap into the unknown. “When the Islamists come to power, are they bringing with them medieval attitudes or a new mentality of equality?”...
...The man in the poster, a parliamentary candidate from the pro-Musharraf Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam), is Peer Tariq Ahmed Shah, the brother of Ijaz Shah, a retired brigadier and head of the Intelligence...
...By printing money, Western Governments are moving into unknown territory. If they print too much, Governments will damage their currency....
...With elections that had been planned for January set to be delayed, Pakistan’s move back towards democracy now includes an unexpected detour into the unknown....
...The Ends of the Earth Edited by Elizabeth Kolbert and Francis Spufford Granta Books £25, 288 pages FT bookshop price: £20 A hundred years ago the Arctic and Antarctic were vast blank spaces, unknown and...
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