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UK chancellor raises national insurance payments for self employed in new budget

UK chancellor Philip Hammond announced his 2017 budget on Wednesday, which included a £2 billion pledge to social care and a tax hike on the self-employed. It was accused of breaking Conservative Party manifesto promises.

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‘Carlos the Jackal’ on trial for third life sentence

Venezuela-born Ilich Ramirez Sanchez was back in a French court on Monday. The 67-year-old, better known as Carlos the Jackal from his notoriety as a political terrorist, now faces trial for an attack in 1974 on a Parisian shopping centre.

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Travel ban 2.0 exempts Iraqis, U.S. permanent residents

U.S. president Donald Trump signed in the Oval Office a revised version of his executive order barring entry to the United States by refugees and individuals from certain Muslim-majority countries.

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Malaysian police chief publicly confirms murdered man was Kim Jong Nam

On Friday, Malaysia’s Inspector-General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar spoke to reporters and confirmed the man murdered in Kuala Lumpur International Airport was indeed Kim Jong Nam, half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism

In a study that appeared in Biological Psychiatry, scientists from the Universities of California and North Carolina, with several other universities in the United States and Canada, report a strong correlation between abnormal distribution of cerebrospinal fluid in infants and later development of autistic symptoms.

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