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BBC News with Nick KellyA bomb has exploded in a market close to a militarybarracks in the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing a number of people. Our corres
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BBC News with Marion MarshallOne of Pakistan's best-known liberal politicians, the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer, has been shot dead in Islamabad. Mr Taseer
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BBC News with David AustinA new Congress has convened in Washington after mid-term elections in which President Obama's Democratic Party suffered heavy losses to the Rep
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe internationally recognised winner of the presidential election in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, has called on the West African regional
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BBC News with Nick KellyThere's been further rioting in Algeria over food price increases and unemployment, the latest outbreak in several days of unrest. Police have be
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe new unity government in Tunisia appears to be in danger of falling apart just a day after it was formed. At least three ministers, all with s
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardPresident Barack Obama has welcomed the successful completion of voting on the first day of southern Sudan's referendum on independence. He s
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BBC News with Iain PurdonFederal authorities in the United States have made 115 arrests in what the US Attorney General Eric Holder called the largest ever single-day ope
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryPresident Obama has led the United States in a moment's silence to honour the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona. A single bell
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BBC News with Michael PowlesThe head of world football's governing authority Fifa says he wants to set up a body to investigate allegations of corruption at his organisa
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BBC News with Julie CandlerDilma Rousseff has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil, the first woman to lead Latin America's biggest nation. In her inaugural spee
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BBC News with David LeggeThe government of Yemen says two boats crammed with African migrants have capsized off its coast, killing more than 80 people. Rescue teams have
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BBC News, this is Mike Cooper.A United States presidential commission investigating last year's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has recommended a series of
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe Prime Minister of Tunisia, Mohamed Ghannouchi, has named the ministers in the interim government intended to fill thevacuum
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BBC News with David LeggeThe Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali has been forced from power after a month of protests over unemployment and high food prices. The a