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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsThe United States has defended plans for a six-billion-dollar arms deal with Taiwan despite a warning from China of serious consequences if th
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BBC News with Gaenor Howells.The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has told African leaders that he'soutraged by the use of rape as a weapon
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BBC News with Deborah Mackenzie.Foreign ministers from some 70 countries meeting in London have backed a new strategy they hope willbring an end tothe co
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BBC News with Iain Purdon.The Defence Department in Washington has announced areviewof how to lift a ban on openly homosexual people serving in the US mi
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BBC News with Zoe Diamond.President Obama has presented Congress with his budget proposals for 2011, saying the United States must learn to live within its means. He said
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BBC News with Marian MarshallTen American missionaries have been charged with kidnapping in Haiti, after they tried to take a group of Haitian children out of the country
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BBC News with Iain Purdon.On the second day of a major offensive against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, NATO-led forces have killed 12 civilians
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BBC News with Michael PowlesThe British defence company BAE Systems is to pay a fine of 400 million dollars to the United States government for misleading it over arms de
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BBC News with Ally Macue.Britain has summoned the Israeli ambassador to the Foreign Office to discuss the use of fake British passports by the alleged assassins of a seni
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BBC News with Deborah Mackenzie.Exit polls in Ukraine suggest that the presidential election has been won by the pro-Moscow candidate Viktor Yanukovych. The unofficial po
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BBC News with Iain Purdon.The Greek Prime Minister, George Papandreou, has criticized the European Union's response to the financial crisis gripping his country, calling
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BBC News. This is Mike Cooper.President Obama has given his backing to building the first nuclear reactors in the United States in three decades. He said the country need
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.The chairman of the West African regional grouping ECOWAS, Mohamed Ibn Chambas, has said the new military authorities in Niger have assured him t