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David Cameron launches charm offensive in Mexico
20 Jun 2012: PM visits Mexico City in a bid to boost British business interests in the second largest economy in Latin America -
Attorney-general Holder in contempt over Fast and Furious, House decides
20 Jun 2012:Republicans set up protracted showdown with White House as committee votes to place Eric Holder in contempt of Congress
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Rio+20 Earth summit talks turn into rubber-stamp job
20 Jun 2012: UN chief urges leaders to be more ambitious after concerns they will sign a pre-negotiated text but won't commit on key issues -
Independence for the Falklands could end South Atlantic standoff
20 Jun 2012: Letters: While the Falklands remain a dependent territory, the UK will always be on the back foot in relation to the UN and the international community -
Rio+20 Earth summit - in pictures
20 Jun 2012:World leaders have once again been descending on Rio de Janeiro, for a conference on sustainable development. Aside from the main event, campaigners and activists have made their presence felt and a People's Summit has run alongside. Here are some images taken on 19-20 June
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Leah Gordon's best photograph
20 Jun 2012: 'Marabou is a term from the old Haiti caste system. My model had a blond mohican under his hat' -
Julian Assange requests asylum at Ecuador embassy - live coverage
Live 20 Jun 2012:Follow live updates as Wikileaks founder seeks refuge in Ecuador and police say they will arrest Assange for breach of bail conditions.
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Julian Assange's drama: in the third act, we still don't know what the story is
20 Jun 2012:Is the US really trying to extradite him? Or has he bought into his own hype? A former WikiLeaks staffer parses the latest
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DBC Pierre celebrates the axolotl
20 Jun 2012:The Booker prize winner has collaborated with musicians to create An Axolotl Odyssey, a symphony in honour of the almost-extinct Mexican creature. It will be performed at London's Natural History Museum on 23 June – but hear a snatch of DBC Pierre's words here first
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Julian Assange interviews Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa – video
20 Jun 2012:The WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, interviews the Ecuadorian president, Rafael Correa, a month before he sought asylum in the country's embassy in London
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OECD criticises Canada for aid budget cuts and lack of transparency
20 Jun 2012: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development review says Canada should revoke aid budget cuts and promote greater transparency on funding and objectives of aid projects -
Rio+20 summit: Opening day live blog
20 Jun 2012:Rolling coverage of the UN Sustainable Development Conference where world leaders have arrived to agree how to tackle the world's ecological and social problems
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Rio+20: Ban Ki-moon urges world leaders to act on sustainability
20 Jun 2012: UN secretary general defends scope of summit agreement, but says it is 'merely a piece of paper' unless leaders take action -
Julian Assange asylum: questions and answers
20 Jun 2012: How long can Julian Assange stay in the embassy, and could he go to Ecuador? These and other legal questions answered -
Assange's refuge in Ecuador's embassy doesn't exempt him from UK law
20 Jun 2012: Matthew Happold: UK authorities can arrest Julian Assange as soon as he exits the embassy, and Ecuador may be legally obliged to surrender him
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