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Venezuelan voters reject plans to reform the country’s constitution 51% to 49% in a major blow to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez described the defeat as a “photo finish”, and urged followers not to turn it into a point of conflict.
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Venezuelan voters reject plans to reform the country’s constitution in a major blow to President Hugo Chavez.
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A man,named only as Mr Lu, in China’s eastern province of Jiangsu has died from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu, state media Xinhua news agency says.
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Hopes were rising last night that the British teacher Gillian Gibbons jailed for 15 days in Sudan for insulting Islam’s prophet could be released today when two peers lobbying for her freedom were granted a meeting with the country’s President.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure. ~ Karl Popper

There is a plan, it seems to me, that reaches out of the electron to the rim of the universe and what this plan may be or how it came about is beyond my feeble intellect. But if we are looking for something on which to pin our faith — and, indeed, our hope — [...]