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Environment minister Greg Hunt is set to grant himself retrospective legal immunity against potential claims that he failed to consider environmental advice before approving key mining projects.
He seems set to grant legal papers to millions of foreigners, notably the parents of children who are citizens or legal residents.
The Senate looks set to grant normal trading rights, but the vote in the House is still up for grabs, Congressional leaders and administration officials said.
REUTERS Europe Said Likely to Clear Teva-Cephalon Deal | The European Union is set to grant conditional clearance to Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, an Israeli drug maker, for its proposed $7 billion purchase of an American rival, Cephalon, Reuters reports, citing a person familiar with the matter.
And with such birthday gifts as the Coen brothers' droll screwball comedy Intolerable Cruelty - which mildly lampoons the star personas of George Clooney and Catherine Zeta Jones by making him a cynical divorce lawyer, her a ruthless gold-digger - the festival looked set to grant a late reprieve to a lacklustre film year.
The Chinese government is set to grant official papers to millions of people born illegally under the country's recently reversed one-child policy.
Photograph: Muzaffar Salman/Reuters Updated at 4.55pm GMT 2.21pm GMT Egyptian army granted arrest powers The Egyptian military is to set to be granted the power to arrest civilians to help police maintain security, according to the Egypt Independent citing cabinet proposals.
The Egyptian military is to set to be granted the power to arrest civilians to help police maintain security, according to the Egypt Independent.
California State University is set to begin granting honorary degrees to former Japanese-American students who were sent to internment camps during World War II.
But despite the countless billions killed to feed humanity's seemingly insatiable appetite for its mild flesh, the domestic chicken looks set to be granted immortality.
Aston Villa manager Tim Sherwood's wish to add more firepower to his squad is set to be granted with the loan signing of Emmanuel Adebayor while talks are also ongoing with £7m Blackburn striker Rudy Gestede.
