#INN’s 2013 Person of the Year: Edward Snowden

He pulled off the year’s most spectacular heist. Exiled from his country, the 30-year-old computer whiz has become the doomsayer of the information age

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U.K. Press Freedom Under Threat

Britain has a long tradition of a free, inquisitive press. That freedom, so essential to democratic accountability, is being challenged by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition government

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Eroding Freedom

Seventy of the world’s leading human rights organisations have written to David Cameron to warn that the government’s reaction to the mass surveillance revealed by Edward Snowden is leading to an erosion of fundamental rights and freedoms in the UK

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NSA Surveillance Far Beyond Orwell’s Imagination

The potential of the surveillance state goes way beyond anything in George Orwell’s 1984

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Chemical War

Republican Mike Rogers, the chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, said evidence showed chemical weapons had been used in Syria and that the US had to act before thousands were killed

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U.K. to Regulate the Media…

British MPs have reached a deal to establish a new press watchdog in the UK, despite fears voiced by Conservative Party leader Prime Minister David Cameron that it could jeopardize freedom of the press in the country

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Cause of Hunger Ignored in West Africa

David Cameron will host a hunger summit in Downing Street on Sunday, using the presence of heads of state for the London Olympics to focus attention on this issue.

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Youths Bear The Brunt of Recession

Britain’s growing army of pensioners is getting a better deal from the state than at any time in the past 15 years while the young bear the brunt of the recession.

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