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European countries mull human rights reform

European ministers begin talks which the UK hopes will make it easier to deport failed asylum-seekers — by changing how the European Convention on Human Rights is applied.

All 46 countries signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, including the UK, have given themselves until next May to re-think how it should be applied to immigration cases.

Lawyers for eight prisoners who are being held on remand — accused of offences related to Palestine Action — say they are at risk of dying from a hunger strike.

The best-selling author Sophie Kinsella has died at the age of fifty-five from brain cancer.

And the former French president Nicolas Sarkozy becomes the latest prisoner to publish his memoirs.

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