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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Sheila Pulham

On the site today

Brian Whitaker has written us a fascinating dispatch about Muslims and humour, after an Islamist website was taken in by a three-year-old spoof about the CIA training agents to act as muezzins.

Here on Newsblog Mark Oliver is looking at reaction to Mahmoud Abbas's victory in the Palestinian presidential election, and Jane Perrone is mulling over the furore about the BBC's screening of Jerry Springer - the Opera.

Tony Blair and Gordon Brown face the Parliamentary Labour party this afternoon, with many backbenchers tired of their widely reported bickering over who offered what to whom.

And we're chasing our correspondent John Hooper in Rome for an audio dispatch on Italy's new ban on smoking in public places.

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