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ID:
174273
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174268
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In 1772, a crowd gathered outside court to hear the decision on a case that had captured the public imagination. It was the case of James Somerset, an enslaved man who had escaped from his ‘master’, Charles Stewart, in England in 1771. Stewart had Somerset arrested and placed aboard a ship bound for Jamaica, then a British slave colony. Somerset was able to contact Granville Sharp, a humanitarian lawyer and abolitionist, who brought the case to court. The presiding judge, Lord Mansfield, reluctantly agreed that Somerset must be discharged.
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174274
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The rules that underpin the international fight against corruption are barely 30 years old. Their foundations are the UN Convention Against Corruption (2003), the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention (1997) and a number of regional conventions. On top of this sit national and multilateral institutions, agencies and initiatives, buttressed by legislation such as France’s transparency and anti-corruption law, known as Loi Sapin II, the UK Bribery Act, Brazil’s Clean Companies Act and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
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ID:
174275
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Early one morning several years ago, I was woken in my Baghdad hotel room by my phone buzzing. It was Hisham. He had tried several times to reach me on WhatsApp while I was fast asleep. We had arranged to have breakfast together, but I was sure he was far too early. Fumbling for my mobile, I called him back. ‘Doctor,’ he shouted, using the title we sometimes jokingly used with each other, ‘I’m outside your hotel. We’re having breakfast with Qais al-Khazali. Hurry up! He’s waiting for us.’
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174270
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Crises of a global scale, such as the oil shock of 1973 and the 2008 financial crisis, trigger reforms that allow countries to respond more effectively if and when the crisis returns.
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174269
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There are some who would argue that police brutality in the United States is not relevant to issues in Britain. Douglas Murray, the conservative commentator, described British protests in support of Black Lives Matter as ‘the globalization of a specific American racial issue’.
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174276
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In 1921, a 19-year-old black shoe-shiner named Dick Rowland was arrested after an incident in which it appears he tripped and grabbed the hand of a white female lift attendant. A large crowd of white men gathered outside the Tulsa jail where he was held, prompting rumours of a lynching which brought a group of armed African Americans to the scene. Shots were fired and the black minority retreated while an estimated 500 white men were sworn-in as Special Deputies.
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ID:
174271
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When the first cases of COVID-19 were admitted to hospitals it was clear that this new virus needed to be taken seriously. It could affect the lungs, heart, liver and kidneys – which meant patients needed the specialized expertise and technology of an intensive care unit.
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