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Le gouvernement Harper dit vouloir s'attaquer à l'immigration illégale à la source. Le ministre Jason Kenney se rend en Asie pour demander aux autorités d'intensifier leurs actions contre la corruption chez les consultants.

Le gouvernement espagnol n'entend pas modifier sa politique antiterroriste en réaction à l'annonce de l'ETA de ne plus mener d'actions armées. Madrid poursuivra sa lutte contre l'organisation indépendantiste basque.

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Les 17 centrales nucléaires du pays demeureront en service encore au moins douze ans, a annoncé la coalition au pouvoir, repoussant ainsi de nombreuses années une fermeture prévue, à l'origine, en 2021.

Charges against two people accused of trying to extort money from actor John Travolta, following the death of his son in the Bahamas, are dropped.

Downing Street communications chief Andy Coulson says he is happy to meet police after fresh claims of phone tapping while he was a tabloid editor.

England manager Fabio Capello insists striker Wayne Rooney will play in the Euro 2012 qualifier away to Switzerland on Tuesday.

Tony Blair cancels a planned book signing in London on Wednesday to prevent causing the police "a lot of hassle".

American Pie actor Chris Klein pleaded no contest to drink-driving following and will serve four years probation.

Nearly 20 people die as a suicide bomber rams an explosives laden pickup truck into a police station in north-west Pakistan.

Robin Soderling is in action at the US Open ahead of a night session that includes Roger Federer, after Caroline Wozniacki earlier saw off Maria Sharapova.

Five men, including two ex-councillors, are jailed over a failed postal vote scam in Bradford during the 2005 general election.

A Flintshire mother calls for tougher sentences for so-called "one-punch killers" after her son's attacker was jailed for 40 months for manslaughter.

Former member of British rock group ELO, Mike Edwards, is killed in a freak accident when a hay bale rolls on to a Devon road and crushes his van.

Contemporary artwork owned by model Jerry Hall are expected to fetch more than £1.5 million when they are sold in October at Sotheby's in London.

England batsman Kevin Pietersen is given an undisclosed fine by the ECB over his Twitter tirade.

A Scottish crime gang spent more than £50,000 advertising brothels in Belfast, a court is told.

Michael Geist writes in with the latest news on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), the secret, closed-door copyright treaty that will bring US-style copyright rules (and worse) to the whole world. Particularly disturbing is the growing support for "three-strikes" copyright rules that would disconnect whole families from the Internet if one member of the household was accused (without proof) of copyright infringement. The other big US agenda item is cramming pro-Digital Rights Management (DRM) rules down the world's throats that go way beyond the current obligations under the UN's WIPO Copyright Treaty. In the US version, breaking DRM is always illegal, even if you're not committing any copyright violation -- so breaking the DRM on your iPad to install software you bought from someone who hasn't gone through the Apple approval process is illegal, even though the transaction involves no illicit copying.

Ironically, this DRM push comes just as the US courts and regulators have begun to erode the US's own extreme rules on the subject. Or perhaps this isn't so surprising: in the past, the US copyright lobby has torpedoed the courts and Congress by getting USA to commit to international agreements that went far beyond the rules that they could push through on their own at home. Given the history of ACTA leaks, to no one's surprise, the latest version of the draft agreement was leaked last night on Knowledge Ecology International's website. The new version - which reflects changes made during an intense week of negotiations last month in Washington - shows a draft agreement that is much closer to becoming reality. Square brackets [ed: these indicate areas where there is still debate] have been removed from many sections, leaving the core issue of scope of the agreement [ed: that is, whether the treaty will cover things like EU-style trademark rules that would prohibit calling it "cheddar cheese" if it's not made in Cheddar, England] as the biggest issue to be resolved when the next round of negotiations begins in a few weeks in Japan.

Perhaps the most important story of the latest draft is how the countries are close to agreement on the Internet enforcement chapter. The Internet enforcement chapter has been among the most contentious since the U.S. first proposed draft language that would have globalized the DMCA and raised the prospect of three strikes and you're out. In the face of opposition, the U.S. has dropped its demands on secondary liability [ed: that is, forcing ISPs and online services to police and censor their users or face prosecution] but is still holding out hope of establishing digital lock rules that go beyond the WIPO Internet treaties and were even rejected by its own courts. ACTA Text Leaks: U.S. Concedes on Secondary Liability, Wants To Go Beyond DMCA on Digital Locks

• New ACTA leak: It's a screwjob for the world's poor countries ...
• ACTA "internet enforcement" chapter leaks
• Delusional EU ACTA negotiator claims that three strikes has never ...
• Biggest-ever ACTA leak: secret copyright treaty dirty laundry ...
• ACTA leak: Now we know who is against transparency - USA, Korea ...
• Secret ACTA fights over iPod border-searches
• Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad.
• ACTA goes public

France's Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner says he will 'do anything' to help save an Iranian woman sentenced to death on an adultery conviction.

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