Politics › Justice minister faces censure for saying he only has to remember 2 phrases

Politics › Justice minister faces censure for saying he only has to remember 2 phrases
Justice Minister Minoru Yanagida may face a censure motion over recent comments that could be taken as downplaying his duty to respond to Diet questioning,…
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Politics › Kan says he has no plan to visit islands at center of dispute with Russia
Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday he has no plans to visit Russian-held islands off Hokkaido that have been at the center of a long-standing…
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Politics live blog – Thursday 11 November 2010
• Andrew Sparrow with all today's politics news – including Iain Duncan Smith's white paper on welfare reform • Read a lunchtime summary 8.22am: It's a big day for the coalition. Iain Duncan Smith, the work and pensions secretary, is publishing his white paper on welfare reform, which is being described as the most radical overhaul of the system since Beveridge. Welfare ministers always say that ...
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Politics Patrol blog: 'Calls for putting off DRPA toll hike'
The Delaware River Port Authority, which operates four bridges across the Delaware and the PATCO train line, is known far and wide as a patronage dump that collects tolls then disperses the money to politically connected groups as it sees fit.
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