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Iceland’s bid to ban web porn: Nation could becoming first western country to block filth over fears of effects on children

Iceland could become the first Western democracy to block all internet porn under radical new proposals.

Fears about the damaging effects on children have led the government to work on legal measures to try and stop the flood of graphic sexual material reaching the island’s shores.

Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson has set up working parties to find the best ways to stem the tide of online images and videos being accessed by [...]

DEATH OF THE EURO: FRANCE PLOTS EUROZONE ‘BREAKAWAY GROUP’

France is drawing up plans to create a breakaway organisation of eurozone countries with its own treaty, parliament and headquarters – a move that could significantly undermine the existing European Union.

By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels

The proposal would see a formal “union within a union” created, but would lead to a significant deterioration in Britain’s influence in Europe.

David Cameron is drawing up urgent plans to stop Britain being “railroaded” into agreeing to decisions taken [...]

DEATH OF THE EURO: FRANCE PLOTS EUROZONE ‘BREAKAWAY GROUP’

By Bruno Waterfield, Brussels

The proposal would see a formal “union within a union” created, but would lead to a significant deterioration in Britain’s influence in Europe.

David Cameron is drawing up urgent plans to stop Britain being “railroaded” into agreeing to decisions taken by the new eurozone bloc.

France and Germany are understood to want to strengthen the union between eurozone countries with new taxes and legal measures to stop nations borrowing and spending [...]

Egyptian frustrations with army, government mount

(Reuters) – Egyptian activists vowed on Sunday to stay camped in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, accusing the army rulers of failing to sweep out corruption, end the use of military courts and swiftly try those who killed protesters.

Anger has been rising against what many Egyptians see as the reluctance of the military council to deliver on the demands of protesters who ousted Hosni Mubarak in [...]