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Iran cracks down on activists in runup to election - The Guardian
Human rights campaigners in Iran, speaking on condition of anonymity, say state repression has intensified in the runup to the polls on 14 June amid authorities' concern of a repeat of the anti-government protests that followed the 2009 election, which ...
William Hague seeks to change arms embargo on Syria - The Guardian
"It isn't even a secret any more," said one 25-year-old resident of a Hezbollah enclave in Daheyah, who refused to be named. "There are dozens of martyrs coming home. I know of at least four myself. People are talking about it openly." If opposition ...
Chelsea flower show: bankers network among the narcissi - The Guardian
One banker and regular attendee who declined to be named, says: "I don't understand how some justify entertaining in the chalets, I don't think business gets done. It's about courting and bedding down relationships with people." But the party doesn't ...
The man who 'nearly broke the internet' - The Guardian
"He claimed he had diplomatic status," said the Spanish police officer who led the operation, but asked not to be named. "He said he was the telecommunications minister and foreign minister of a place called the Cyberbunker Republic. He didn't seem to ...
Chelsea flower show makes its beds, and peace, with garden gnomes - The Guardian
Yes, they're naff, but I've secretly got three myself," admitted one eminent garden designer who asked not to be named. "I'm sitting on the gnomic fence," said Jinny Blom, who has designed a sentimental garden of forget-me-nots and baby's tears plants ...
Amazon faces whistleblower's claims over UK business tax practices - The Guardian
The whistleblower revelations come from a music publishing executive, who asked not to be named. He and his sales team make dozens of trips to Slough to refine the detail of contracts, the source claimed, adding that meetings were held with Amazon's ...
US pulls diplomats out of Libya - The Guardian
"The reason we're able to have these forces on alert is work the defence department has done to have additional response options in the wake of Benghazi," the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss contingency plans. The state ...
New coronavirus can spread between humans, says WHO official - The Guardian
A public health expert who declined to be identified said close contact meant being in a small, enclosed space with an infected person for a prolonged period. The virus emerged in the Gulf last year but cases have also been recorded in Britain and ...
Benghazi: State Department 'pressed to change' Susan Rice talking points - The Guardian
Deleted from the final talking points were mention of al-Qaida, the experience of fighters in Libya and Islamic extremists, according to the congressional official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to ...
Fracking firm's drilling plan unnerves West Sussex villagers - The Guardian
You won't get people with placards, it is just not like that here," says one villager, who declined to give her name as she worried about antagonising the anti-fracking groups. "It is too late to expect to stop oil drilling," says parish councillor ...
Boris Berezovsky buried in low-key ceremony - The Guardian
One mourner at Brookwood cemetery, who declined to be named, described Berezovsky as "very Russian, like something from the pages of a Dostoyevsky novel." Others refused to talk. Berezovky's full inquest has yet to be held. An inquest into the death of ...
Several dead after cargo ship collides with Genoa port tower - The Guardian
A security guard at the port who declined to give his name was reported as saying he was on duty at a checkpoint when two young men came racing past shouting: "The tower! The tower!" He added: "I went out and the tower was no longer there. In its place ...
Vatican 'orders Cardinal Keith O'Brien to leave Scotland' - The Guardian
"The cardinal has been advised not to relocate to the parish in Dunbar and has been told he should leave the country," an anonymous source told the paper. "That's extremely disappointing and not a Christian way to treat someone. There's clearly ...
Hollywood conservative unmasked as notorious Holocaust revisionist - The Guardian
There was debate about whether everyone would look guilty by association," said one entertainment industry artist, a member of Republican Party Animals, who requested anonymity. "The reason we were all so pissed at him is it plays into every horrible ...
Damascus bomb 'kills 13 and wounds 70', says Syria Television - The Guardian
"Glass was shattered around the whole block and shopkeepers were using brooms to clean up the glass in front of their shops," said one resident who declined to be named, fearing arrest for speaking to the media. State-run Syria Television said 70 ...
Amanda Knox: I went to jail naive and came out an introspective woman - The Guardian
One close family friend, who asked not to be named, told the Guardian: "It's important to us that Meredith isn't forgotten, not only because of the amazing girl she was but also because there are many questions yet to be answered about her death, and ...
US ponders Syria options but urges caution over chemical weapons claims - The Guardian
On Thursday, the White House and other top Obama administration officials said that US intelligence had concluded with "varying degrees of confidence" that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons in its civil war. Two Syrian officials ...
Sanctions in Iran have had an impact on its nuclear stance - The Guardian
A senior American official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the delicacy of the talks, said this had happened for the first time in many years." At the next meeting in Istanbul on 19 September 2012, according to Iran's ambassador to ...
Two blasts at Boston Marathon kill three and injure more than 100 - The Guardian
Reuters said the description came from a senior law enforcement official briefed on the investigation who declined to be identified because of the sensitivity of the information. Dozens of injured people were taken to local hospitals where some ...
• At least three dead, many injured in two finish-line blasts - The Guardian
A police officer who declined to give his name said the garage at Mass General was all clear after the suspicious package was found to be a bag with a picture leaning against it. Updated at 8.04pm ET. 7.33pm ET. Guardian US social news editor Katie ...
LSE students contradict BBC claims over North Korea trip - The Guardian
One student, who asked not to be named, told the Guardian that they had only learned that there were BBC journalists on the trip on the first night in Pyongyang. Accompanying Sweeney was his wife, Tomiko Newson, who helped organise the trip, and a BBC ...
Malawi accuses Madonna of exaggerating humanitarian efforts - The Guardian
... Ciccone Leon, Rocco Ritchie, Mercy James, David Banda Ciccone Ritchie should use the ordinary passenger terminal on their way to their jet," said an aviation official who asked to remain anonymous because he is not authorised to speak to the media.
Syria crisis: G8 foreign ministers seek 'breakthrough' at London meeting ... - The Guardian
Turkey is building two camps along its far south-eastern border with Syria to house a growing number of refugees from Syrian minority groups, mainly Assyrian Christians as well as ethnic Kurds, a government official said today. From Reuters : More 250 ...
Syrian troop redeployments raise concerns over Golan Heights security - The Guardian
Informed sources, who refused to be identified, said some of the US-trained rebels were deploying to the Golan area to act as a buffer between the jihadists and Israeli units. Israel has reported a number of incidents of small arms fire directed at its ...
Homebase criticised over work experience claims - The Guardian
Campaigning group Boycott Workfare said they were informed by an anonymous source that those in the Haringey branch had been warned they would be sanctioned if they did not take up the offer of the Homebase placements. Two days before the start of ...