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  • A card is left on a floral tribute outside former British Prime Minister the Baroness Thatcher's home in London on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

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  • ** FILE ** Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to members of the media on Monday, June 29, 2009, upon returning to her home in London from the hospital after suffering a broken arm. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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  • ** FILE ** Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher waves to members of the media on Monday, June 29, 2009, upon returning to her home in London from the hospital after suffering a broken arm. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

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    Love her or loathe her, one thing's beyond dispute: Margaret Thatcher transformed Britain. Thatcher's former spokesman, Tim Bell, said that the former prime minister had died Monday morning of a stroke. She was 87 years old.

  • **FILE** Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher smiles with satisfaction as President Ronald Reagan makes a farewell speech June 9, 1982, outside her Downing Street office in London prior to his departure for Bonn. (Associated Press)

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  • **FILE** Henry Edmont Cane (left) and partner Christopher Patrick Flanaghan kiss outside City Hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Dec. 19, 2005. The two became the first male couple to win legal recognition for their partnership under a new British civil partnership law. (Associated Press)

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  • George Osborne (left), Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, walks with Danny Alexander, Chief Secretary to the Treasury, to deliver the half-yearly budget statement to parliament in London on Dec. 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

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  • Lord Justice Brian Leveson holds a summary of his report into the culture and practices of the British press and his recommendations for future regulation, on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

    U.K. judge issues damning press verdict

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  • **FILE** British Prime Minister David Cameron pauses during a press conference at Stormont Castle in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on Nov. 20, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Anglicans must ‘get on with it’

    The Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader said Wednesday — and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers.

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