Mr Shayler is accused of disclosing state secrets in 1997 in a series of newspaper articles about alleged illegal activities and incompetence in the security services.

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The moustachioed Mr Peretz, who campaigned on a social-economic platform, was a natural target for cartoonists joking about his coming moment of initiation into the state's intelligence and nuclear secrets.

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Studying teeth with state of the art technology is helping to unlock previously hidden secrets about the Neanderthals' lifestyle.

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