When the government began reassessing Incapacity Benefit claimants in 2010, they expected the majority to be found fit to work.

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My late maternal grandparents liked London a lot.

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UK workers gave their employers £31.5 billion of unpaid overtime last year, according to a new analysis of official statistics published by the  Trades Union Congress (TUC)

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Condemning an apparent airstrike in Yemen that reportedly killed at least 32 civilians in a market northeast of Sana’a on 27 February the UN Secretary-General has called for a prompt and impartial investigation into the incident, which saw a death toll among the highest from a single bombing in recent months.

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The entire male adult population of an Iranian village has been executed on drugs charges, an Iranian official has claimed, amid concerns over a United Nations programme that funds the country’s Anti-Narcotics Police.

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Campaign Against Arms Trade has welcomed the European Parliament’s vote to support an arms embargo against Saudi Arabia. The amendment was passed by 359 votes to 212, with 31 abstentions.

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