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The brave women of Buenos Aires By Jimmy Burns
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Category: Latest Journalism

In the Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, around the central pyramid that commemorates the overthrow of colonial Spain, a neat circle of painted white bandannas marks the spot where Las Madres de Mayo - some of the bravest women in the world - protested in the last decades of the 20th century against Argentina's bloody military junta.

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Feature Article THE TABLET
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Category: Latest Journalism

It was announced this week that the Pope will visit Spain in November. The news comes during a tense phase in Church-State relations after the Spanish Senate approved a new abortion law on 25 February. It is the latest round in a battle that the secularising government seems to be winning

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Tribute to Michael Richey
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Category: Latest Journalism

Mike Richey's death at the age of 92, three days before Christmas Day ,marks the passing into history of the last of a group of English Catholics who left an enduring mark on the 20th century.

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THE DEFENCE OF THE REALM by Christopher Andrew
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Category: Latest Journalism

I approached this authorised history of the British secret service MI5 with a degree of scepticism. Is one dealing here with history researched by an independent historian or an apologia for a government organisation whose hundred years of existence has drawn its lifeblood from secrecy and varying economies of truth?

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A CUBAN DIARY by Jimmy Burns 21/3/2008
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Category: Latest Journalism

Just a small group of Cubans are with us on the Air France from Paris to Havana, and they are the only non-tourists on the plane, apart from the Chinese Olympic volley ball team.

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