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Islamic State has captured three villages near the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi and is feared to be closing in on the city.
The militant group took the villages of Sjariyah, Albu-Ghanim and Soufiya, in Anbar province, which had been under government control, residents said.
It represents a setback for government forces, which two weeks ago were able to regain control of Tikrit.
Residents of the villages told the AP news agency fighting was taking place on the eastern edges of Ramadi, about 2km away from a local government building.
In Soufiya, the militants bombed a police station and took over a power plant.
The residents said Iraqi troops battling the militants were being backed up by airstrikes.
A map showing the cities in Iraq affected by Islamic State
At around midday on Wednesday, militants opened another front with government troops at three other villages, to the northeast of Ramadi.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al Abadi is currently in Washington, where he has met President Barack Obama and appealed for greater support from the US-led coalition carrying out airstrikes against the militants.
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At least 43 people have been killed in a spate of militant attacks in the last few days.
Iraqi state TV said troops have started a large-scale operation to recapture areas beyond Tikrit.
Islamic State swept through key areas in the north and west of Iraq last year seizing about a third of the country including Mosul.
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The group has also previously captured large areas in neighbouring Syria and threatened the Kurdistani city of Irbil.
After its forces were ejected from Tikrit, Iraqi forensic teams exhumed the remains of up to 1,700 soldiers killed as militants overran the city.
Police investigating the disappearance of student Karen Buckley in Glasgow are searching a park where her handbag was found.
Police divers, a helicopter crew and search dogs have been deployed to Dawsholm Park, which is bordered on one side by the River Kelvin.
The 24-year-old vanished in the early hours of Sunday after spending Saturday night with friends at Glasgow's Sanctuary nightclub on Dumbarton Road.
She told them at around 1am she was going to the toilet, but failed to return and left her jacket behind.
CCTV spotted her leaving the club with 21-year-old Alexander Pacteau, who then drove her to his flat.
Mr Pacteau is not a suspect, but communal areas outside his flat in Dorchester Avenue have been taped off while officers look for clues.
Alexander Pacteau, who Karen Buckley met on a night out, is not a suspect
He told officers she left at 4am. It is believed she was planning to walk back to her flat four miles away in Hill Street.
The student, who studies occupational therapy and is originally from Cork, has not been seen since.
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Her parents, who have flown from Ireland to help with the search, said it was typical for her not to use taxis.
Police have increased patrols in the west end, Kelvindale and Anniesland areas of the city, and say they are "gravely concerned" for Ms Buckley's well-being.
Mr Pacteau told officers he was intimate with her at his flat in the early hours of Sunday.
Detective Superintendent Jim Kerr said: "From what we can see, she does not appear to be under duress, there's no signs of a struggle or reluctance on her part to leave the club."
He said Ms Buckley was widely travelled and was "aware of how to take care of herself".
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Police officers continue their search of the ground near the flat in Dorchester Avenue where a missing student Karen Buckley spent several hours on Sunday before leaving around 4am
Police forensic officers search the rear gardens of a block of flats in Dorchester Avenue
Nick Clegg has warned against a coalition that would see Nigel Farage or Alex Salmond walk through the doors of Number 10 as he launched his party's manifesto.
The Liberal Democrat leader said that come 8 May either David Cameron or Ed Miliband would be prime minister but they would not win a majority government and would not hold the "balance of power".
He said it could be Mr Farage, it could be the SNP's Mr Salmond or it could be himself and the Liberal Democrats who hold the balance of power after the election.
But he described the Liberal Democrats' manifesto as "an insurance policy against a government lurching off to the extremes".
Mr Clegg said only his party could "add a heart to the Conservatives, and a brain to Labour" and only the Lib Dems could help guarantee the right path between the excessive cuts of the Tories and the excessive borrowing of Mr Miliband's party.
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The Lib Dem leader said his party would bring "prosperity for all".
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He warned voters that a Miliband/Salmond coalition would lead to "reckless borrowing" and urged them to keep Mr Salmond out of Westminster by voting in the Lib Dem candidate in Gordon.
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And he said: "Imagine for a moment… what will become of our wonderful country in the next five years if Farage gets in."
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The Liberal Democrats are expected to win between 20 and 40 seats at the General Election and could again play the role of kingmaker as neither Labour nor the Tories are expected to win a majority.
Unveiling his party manifesto at a trendy art space in Battersea, Mr Clegg set out five deal-breakers for any future coalition cautioning against a lurch to the Left or the Right.
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He attempted to persuade voters he could be trusted after the U-turn on tuition fees, which cost the party so much support in the early days of the coalition.
The five pledges on the front of the 160-page manifesto are:
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:: Additional £8bn a year funding for NHS by 2020
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:: Eliminate deficit by 2017-18
:: Raise the income tax personal allowance to £12,500
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Three of them on the NHS, the deficit and income tax - match promises made in the Conservative manifesto.
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Mr Clegg is hoping to persuade voters that his party can be the "proven rock of stability, continuity and conscience".
The Lib Dem leader is keen that people should remember the things the Lib Dems delivered in power - and not the things they could not.
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This includes lifting thousands out of income tax by increasing the personal allowance, a policy the Conservatives have claimed credit for and put at the centre of their 2015 manifesto.
Despite largely being viewed as the scapegoats for unpopular decisions, Mr Clegg, whose manifesto launch was marred by a technical glitch that saw him fall off air during the question session, said that every day in coalition had been worth it because they had helped to make Britain better.
And, like Mr Cameron, he implored voters to be allowed to finish the job.
The Liberal Democrat launch comes on the same day as UKIP's - the other party looking to appeal to the Conservatives in the event of coalition building.
Jet fighter scrambles by Japan have soared back to Cold War levels in the face of increased air incursions by neighbouring Russia and China.
Japanese warplanes were sent up 943 times in the year to March - a 16% increase on the previous year - according to the country's Self Defence Force (SDF).
This is the second highest number of intercept flights ever recorded over a 12-month period since records began in 1958 and only one less than a record 944 in 1984.
A Chinese SU-27 fighter jet over the East China Sea
An SDF spokesman said: "It represents a sharp increase."
Although not a direct measure of Russian and Chinese military activity, the figures indicate an increase in operations by the two countries.
It reflects an increasingly assertive China which is hiking defence spending by more than 10% a year and a resurgent Russia in the wake of Moscow's annexation of Crimea last year.
Japan has also increased defence spending, although to a lesser extent, buying a range of new military hardware, including longer-range patrol aircraft, cargo jets, helicopter carriers and stealth fighters.
The military is also set to be boosted with plans by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to relax constitutional restrictions on the country's defence forces that will allow them to operate more freely overseas and increase cooperation with US forces.
Russian bombers and patrol planes often enter Japan's airspace close to Japan's northern Hokkaido island and close to four smaller islands which are claimed by both countries.
There was also an upturn in Russian reconnaissance flights close to Japan following a missile launch by North Korea last year and joint military exercises held by the US and South Korea around the same time.
Chinese fighter incursions are concentrated in the East China Sea, close to disputed uninhabited islands near Taiwan.
The SDF spokesman said an increased number of Chinese planes have flown through Japanese airspace into the Western Pacific over the last year.
Japan is not the only country contending with increased military activity by Moscow.
RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled this week after Russian military aircraft were identified flying close to UK airspace.
And warships from Russia's Northern Fleet entered the English Channel ahead of planned anti-aircraft and anti-submarine drills.
They are the latest in a series of similar incidents in recent months amid strained relations over Ukraine.
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The biker gang's website refers to the Red Army battle cry "To Berlin"
A Russian biker gang loyal to President Vladimir Putin is planning to ride through Europe to mark the end of the Second World War, triggering anger in Poland.
Plans by the ultra-nationalistic Night Wolves motorcycle club to retrace the westward route taken by Soviet troops to Berlin have been branded a "provocation" by Warsaw.
The rally comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and the West over the crisis in Ukraine, which have fuelled fears of Moscow's wider territorial ambitions.
The Night Wolves are close allies of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin
The two-week, 3,728 mile ride will pass through Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and finish in the German capital on 9 May.
The biker gang's website states "To Berlin" - a reference to the Red Army's famous battle cry.
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The planned ride has angered many in Poland, which is a staunch ally of Ukraine's pro-Western government and where bitter memories endure of the Soviet's wartime occupation.
The country's Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said she considered it a "provocation".
But the bikers insist their trip is not politically motivated.
Rally organiser Andrei Bobrovsky said: "This is a memorial rally.
"The main goal is to pay respects to those killed on WWII battlefields in the struggle against Hitler's Nazis - soldiers and innocent civilians.
"Another goal is to develop and strengthen good neighbourly ties."
During their journey the bikers will visit war memorials, Auschwitz and Dachau death camps and Berlin's Treptower Park famous for its Soviet war memorial.
Mr Bobrovsky said many bikers from other European countries wanted to join the rally, which is due to start on 25 April, including Germans.
But a Polish Facebook page, called "No to the passage of Russian bandits through Poland", calls on the authorities to ban the Russian riders from the EU.
Jarek Podworski, a biker from Lublin in Poland who helped set up the Facebook page, said that it was "unimaginable" for bikers who have supported pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine to ride through the EU.
"We know very well what they are doing in Ukraine," Mr Podworski said.
"Brandishing Russian flags, they want to trace the footsteps of the Red Army which in reality did not bring freedom to Poland."
"The Russians are testing the limits of their expansion. If they pass, there is a risk that in three years they will come for good."
He called on Poles to disrupt the rally by blocking the roads.
The Polish government said it is monitoring "the problem".
The Night Wolves, who are sometimes seen as Russia's answer to the Hell's Angels in the US, are close allies of Mr Putin.
The Russian leader has been pictured on a number of occasions astride a Harley-Davidson trike at events held by the gang.
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The biker gang's website refers to the Red Army battle cry "To Berlin"
A Russian biker gang loyal to President Vladimir Putin is planning to ride through Europe to mark the end of the Second World War, triggering anger in Poland.
Plans by the ultra-nationalistic Night Wolves motorcycle club to retrace the westward route taken by Soviet troops to Berlin have been branded a "provocation" by Warsaw.
The rally comes amid heightened tensions between Russia and the West over the crisis in Ukraine, which have fuelled fears of Moscow's wider territorial ambitions.
The Night Wolves are close allies of the Russian leader Vladimir Putin
The two-week, 3,728 mile ride will pass through Belarus, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Austria and finish in the German capital on 9 May.
The biker gang's website states "To Berlin" - a reference to the Red Army's famous battle cry.
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In deeping with his image as a manage of action, Russia's PM Vladimir Putin makes an archaelogical 'find' on a dive in the Black Sea
Russian PM Vladimir Putin scales a climbing wall during his visit to a pro-Kremlin summer camp
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Mr Putin proved himself a natural climber...
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...but he had less success bending a pan
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Mr Putin (c) refereed an arm wrestling during his visit...
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The planned ride has angered many in Poland, which is a staunch ally of Ukraine's pro-Western government and where bitter memories endure of the Soviet's wartime occupation.
The country's Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said she considered it a "provocation".
But the bikers insist their trip is not politically motivated.
Rally organiser Andrei Bobrovsky said: "This is a memorial rally.
"The main goal is to pay respects to those killed on WWII battlefields in the struggle against Hitler's Nazis - soldiers and innocent civilians.
"Another goal is to develop and strengthen good neighbourly ties."
During their journey the bikers will visit war memorials, Auschwitz and Dachau death camps and Berlin's Treptower Park famous for its Soviet war memorial.
Mr Bobrovsky said many bikers from other European countries wanted to join the rally, which is due to start on 25 April, including Germans.
But a Polish Facebook page, called "No to the passage of Russian bandits through Poland", calls on the authorities to ban the Russian riders from the EU.
Jarek Podworski, a biker from Lublin in Poland who helped set up the Facebook page, said that it was "unimaginable" for bikers who have supported pro-Moscow separatists in eastern Ukraine to ride through the EU.
"We know very well what they are doing in Ukraine," Mr Podworski said.
"Brandishing Russian flags, they want to trace the footsteps of the Red Army which in reality did not bring freedom to Poland."
"The Russians are testing the limits of their expansion. If they pass, there is a risk that in three years they will come for good."
He called on Poles to disrupt the rally by blocking the roads.
The Polish government said it is monitoring "the problem".
The Night Wolves, who are sometimes seen as Russia's answer to the Hell's Angels in the US, are close allies of Mr Putin.
The Russian leader has been pictured on a number of occasions astride a Harley-Davidson trike at events held by the gang.
Traces of Ebola have been found in the semen of a man who had been given the all-clear six months earlier, according to the World Health Organisation.
The man, from Liberia, was declared free of the virus last September.
Liberia was one of the first affected countries in West Africa
Ebola was previously detected in semen about three months after a patient was declared virus-free.
The Geneva-based UN health agency is urging survivors of the often deadly virus to practise safe sex "until further notice".
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WHO spokesman Mr Jasarevic said the organisation would not be able to give more detailed advice until there was more research on the after-effects of the disease.
"We need to understand better if this particular case is an anomaly or if there really are groups of people who might (carry) parts of the Ebola virus longer," he said.
The WHO's Bruce Aylward says studies are being conducted and talks are under way about whether there should be systematic screening after three months of a patient's recovery to see how they are.
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The president of the European Central Bank has been interrupted at a news conference by a protester shouting "end ECB dictatorship".
Mario Draghi was outlining the bank's latest monetary policy thinking when a lone woman jumped onto the desk above Mr Draghi and showered him with items including what looked like confetti and sheets of paper.
The bank suspended the video feed of the news conference as security officials grabbed her but she flashed a V for victory sign and smiled as two men in grey suits took her away holding her arms and legs.
Mr Draghi, who had held up his hands as protection, looked shocked but was apparently unhurt and continued his presentation shortly afterwards.
The Reuters news agency reported that activist group Femen was claiming responsibility for the incident on Twitter - although some sources suggested the protester was believed to have left the feminist movement.
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Speculation on the woman's motive could also focus on the renewed financial troubles in Greece, which has yet to secure additional bailout funds from its creditors, including the ECB.
Some activists accuse the bank of trying to enforce budget austerity measures on eurozone countries, such as Greece, that are under financial bailout programmes.
There is likely to be an investigation into how she managed to get into the news conference.
The bank's Governing Council had earlier left the ECB's benchmark interest rates on hold following signs its policy tools, including quantitative easing, were having a positive effect on demand in the eurozone economy.
But Mr Draghi sought to play down market speculation the ECB would scale back its QE plans as a response, saying he was "surprised" by such talk.
He insisted the bank expected to fully implement its €1tn government bond-buying programme until September 2016, as previously announced.
"Our focus will be on the full implementation of our policy measures," he said but added that the programme was "flexible enough" to be adjusted if necessary.
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Video:Protester In Stunt Against ECB Boss
The president of the European Central Bank has been interrupted at a news conference by a protester shouting "end ECB dictatorship".
Mario Draghi was outlining the bank's latest monetary policy thinking when a lone woman jumped onto the desk above Mr Draghi and showered him with items including what looked like confetti and sheets of paper.
The bank suspended the video feed of the news conference as security officials grabbed her but she flashed a V for victory sign and smiled as two men in grey suits took her away holding her arms and legs.
Mr Draghi, who had held up his hands as protection, looked shocked but was apparently unhurt and continued his presentation shortly afterwards.
The Reuters news agency reported that activist group Femen was claiming responsibility for the incident on Twitter - although some sources suggested the protester was believed to have left the feminist movement.
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A protester jumps on the table in front of the European Central Bank President Mario Draghi during a news conference in Frankfurt, Continue through for more images
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Speculation on the woman's motive could also focus on the renewed financial troubles in Greece, which has yet to secure additional bailout funds from its creditors, including the ECB.
Some activists accuse the bank of trying to enforce budget austerity measures on eurozone countries, such as Greece, that are under financial bailout programmes.
There is likely to be an investigation into how she managed to get into the news conference.
The bank's Governing Council had earlier left the ECB's benchmark interest rates on hold following signs its policy tools, including quantitative easing, were having a positive effect on demand in the eurozone economy.
But Mr Draghi sought to play down market speculation the ECB would scale back its QE plans as a response, saying he was "surprised" by such talk.
He insisted the bank expected to fully implement its €1tn government bond-buying programme until September 2016, as previously announced.
"Our focus will be on the full implementation of our policy measures," he said but added that the programme was "flexible enough" to be adjusted if necessary.
Three people have been found guilty of the 'honeytrap' death of a professional poker player.
Kyrron Jackson, 28, and Nicholas Chandler, 29, were convicted by a jury of murdering Mehmet Hassan after Jackson's girlfriend Leonie-Marie Granger set the trap.
Care assistant Granger, 25, was found guilty of manslaughter for deliberately targeting the 56-year-old.
Granger had already pleaded guilty of robbery and was found guilty of false imprisonment. The jury found her not guilty of murder.
Chandler had to be restrained by court guards after he began lashing out as the verdicts were handed down.
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The court heard how Granger went on dates with Mr Hassan and afterwards reported back that her target was "flashy".
A taxi driver overheard her saying: "This guy is a professional gambler. He has never worked a day in his life."
On the night of the murder, Mr Hassan took Granger to top Mayfair restaurant Nobu before going on to the Palm Beach Casino nearby, where he gave her £1,000 in cash to gamble with.
She was seen kissing the victim "passionately" and a poker supervisor felt compelled to tell the pair to "get a room".
Later he took her back to his Islington flat where she let in her boyfriend Jackson and his friend Chandler as she left to get into a taxi.
The two men used parcel tape to tie up Mr Hassan in his bedroom then kicked him to death and ransacked his home.
The killers were later filmed on Granger's mobile phone throwing wads of £50 notes in the air.
Mr Hassan was a regular at the Playboy Casino on Old Park Lane and the Palm Beach Casino in Berkeley Street, Mayfair, and sometimes won as much as £15,000 at a time.
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Honeytrap plot victim professional gambler Mehmet Hassan
Ex-NFL star Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of first-degree murder.
The former New England Patriots tight end was accused of the execution-style killing of 27-year-old Odin Lloyd in 2013.
The verdict carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole for the once highly-regarded football player.
Hernandez's mother, Terri, and his fiancee, Shayanna Jenkins, gasped and sobbed as the verdict was read aloud in court.
Hernandez's mother, Terri Hernandez, reacts to the verdict
Hernandez later turned to them and mouthed: "Be strong. Be strong."
Mr Lloyd was found shot six times in an industrial park not far from Hernandez's Massachusetts home in June 2013.
The semi-professional football player had been dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
Prosecutors said Hernandez, then 23, planned and carried out the murder for reasons that were never made clear to the jury.
Jurors heard during the trial how Mr Lloyd was shot six times
Police zeroed in on the football star after investigators found a key to a car that had been rented by Hernandez in Mr Lloyd's pocket.
The defence acknowledged during closing arguments that Hernandez was present when Mr Lloyd was killed, but pinned the shooting on two of the ex-Patriots star's friends.
Those men, Ernest Wallace and Carlos Ortiz, face separate trials in the case.
Ursula Ward cries as the jury convicts Hernandez with her son's murder
Mr Lloyd's mother, Ursula Ward, spoke in court after the verdict was read, saying she had forgiven anyone who had a hand in her son's death.
She said her "heart stopped beating for a moment" on the day of her son's funeral.
"I felt like I wanted to go into the hole with my son," Ms Ward said.
Jurors deliberated for more than six days before reaching its decision. The panel also found Hernandez guilty on firearm and ammunitions charges.
Hernandez signed a five-year, $40m contract with the Patriots in 2012
The convictions automatically trigger an appeal to Massachusetts' highest court.
Hernandez faces a second murder trial later this year in Boston, where he is charged in the fatal drive-by shooting of two men outside a nightclub.
Once regarded as one of the best young players at his position, Hernandez's downfall from football stardom was swift following his arrest.
He had signed a five-year, $40m (£27m) contract with the Patriots a year before he was charged with Mr Lloyd's killing.
Hernandez will now serve his sentence at a state prison located less than five miles from where the Patriots play their home games.
Nigel Farage has said his is the only party in the General Election with a "credible plan for immigration".
Launching UKIP's Believe In Britain manifesto at a hotel in Thurrock, Essex, the party leader said the only way Britain could regain control of the issue was by leaving the EU.
He said: "We want our country back and then and only then can we actually control our borders."
The party is also promising to limit work visas for skilled immigrant to 50,000 and introduce an Australian-style immigration system, which would see fewer unskilled people entering the country.
He said this would ease pressure on schools and doctors' surgeries.
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The UKIP leader also offered a £18bn tax giveaway, saying it was all paid for. Like the Tories, he promised people on the minimum wage should not pay income tax.
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He said threshold for paying the 40p rate of income tax should be £55,000 and there should be a new 30p rate between £43,500 and £55,000.
He attempted to put the Tories under pressure with a pledge to "substantially" increase defence spending, committing to spending more than 2% of GDP by 2020.
The measures are likely to be seen as a statement of intent to the Tories over what UKIP will demand if it is to help David Cameron to another five years in power.
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Mr Farage also said UKIP would push for guaranteed civilian jobs for soldiers after 12 years of service and there would be no income tax for those abroad on active service. They would also build a military hospital.
He denied "putting out feelers" for discussions on a coalition with the Tories and when asked if removing Mr Cameron would be key to any deal he said: "If I was a Conservative I'd want to get rid of David Cameron."
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In an attempt to persuade voters UKIP is a serious proposition, the spending pledges in the party manifesto have been verified by the Centre for Economics and Business Research.
The key red line for any Conservative coalition for Mr Farage's party is a referendum on Britain's EU membership.
UKIP insists there should be one "as soon as possible", while Mr Cameron has promised a vote only by the end of 2017.
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Mr Farage dismissed his party's 2010 manifesto as "486 pages of drivel" and admitted he had not read it before it was published.
However, he said he had "read, absorbed and understood" the 2015 version.
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Mr Farage spoke briefly at the manifesto launch before handing over to Deputy Party Chairman Suzanne Evans, who wrote the manifesto and gave details about its policies.
UKIP has been criticised for being a spent force, after its surge in the local and European elections last year when Mr Farage said the party could hold the "balance of power" at the General Election.
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However, UKIP could still influence who gets into Number 10 as they have ruled out a coalition with Labour.
The party launched its manifesto an hour after the Lib Dems, also potential kingmakers.
