10.45am: My colleague Polly Curtis has been looking at how much today's inflation figures will cost the government as a result of the fact that benefits will have to be uprated more than the Treasury planned. She says George Osborne now has a ￡1.8bn blackhole in his finances.10.48am: The IPPR thinktank has also been crunching the inflation figures. Unlike Polly Curtis,
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The defense strategy at trial was as much about mitigating as acquitting.During sentencing,the defense emphasized that Manning was young,naive,and good intentioned.They called a forensic psychiatrist who testified that "Manning was under the impression that his leaked information was going to really change how the world views the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq,and future wars,
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And they're really abandoning cigarettes. Smoking,which used to be one of the iconic acts of youthful rebellion,has rapidly faded from fashion. Jon Furniss/Invision/APAccording to the Centers for Disease Control,
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Spokesmen for both Olmert and Livni could not be reached for comment.Peres has been in politics almost since Israel's establishment. He served twice as prime minister,first in the 1980s and then briefly in the 1990s after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Peres was an architect of the 1993 Oslo peace accords and remains an ardent proponent of the two-state solution with the Palestinians.His popularity has surged in recent years. A poll commissioned by Haaretz in March ranking Israel's top 16 public figures put Peres in first place,with an approval rating of 81 percent. Netanyahu took 11th place in the poll,with a 53 percent approval rating. Livni came in last,
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