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Russia has reacted furiously to plans by the United States to deploy an interceptor missile system in Romania.

A “Robin Hood tax” on financial transactions would raise billions of pounds that could be spent on tackling child poverty and international aid projects, according to a campaign launched by unions and charities this week.

Conservative councils intend to double social housing rent and put council tenants on two months’ notice, according to a new Labour-union campaign.

Pub-owning corporations that control more than two-thirds of Britain’s pubs are to be probed once again for cartel activity, in a move welcomed by campaigners and pub landlords, but branded a “farce” by the GMB union.

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament has condemned the Government’s defence green paper as a “disastrous missed opportunity”. To specifically exclude the Trident nuclear deterrent from its review of defence spending is, it says, “avoiding the huge white elephant in the room”.

Public sector workers in Greece clashed with police during a nationwide one-day strike on Wednesday to protest at government measures to try to tackle the country’s enormous budget deficit.