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BBC News with Iain PurdonIn an unprecedented move, the Arab League has voted to impose economic sanctions against Syria in an attempt to force the government to stop its
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondThe British Prime Minister David Cameron has said Iran will face serious consequences after hundreds of protesters stormed two British diplomatic
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryA suicide bomb attack on Shia Muslim worshippers in the Afghan capital Kabul has killed at least 58 people and wounded more than 160 others. T
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BBC News with Iain PurdonEgyptians have turned out in large numbers to vote on a mostly peaceful first day of elections to a new parliament - the first since President Ho
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsPresident Obama has welcomed home some of the last US troops to return from Iraq to mark the end of nearly nine years of America's combat rol
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BBC News with Marion MarshallBritain has ordered the closure of the Iranian embassy in London and said staff must leave within 48 hours. The British Foreign Secretary Wil
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe rivalries threatening Iraqi stability have intensified with the country's most senior Sunni politicians coming under pressure from the Sh
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe European Union has decided topress aheadwithout Britain with a plan to forge a tighter fiscal union. The plan is to sign a p
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BBC News with Iain PurdonDemonstrators across Russia have called for a rerun of last weekend's parliamentary elections, which were officially won by the party of the Pri
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BBC News with Marion MarshallPhysicists working at the Cern laboratory in Geneva say they've found signs of thehypotheticalsubatomic particle known as t
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BBC News with Neil NunesThere's been widespread internationalcondemnationof the Christmas Day bomb attacks in Nigeria that have killed almost 40 people.
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryAn Iraqi delegation visiting Syria to try to broker an end to the violence there says it's had positive talks with President Bashar al-Assad.
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Violence has continued in Syria despite the presence of the Arab League monitoring mission in the country. Activists said more than 10 people were killed in the anti-government
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BBC News with David AustinThe United States presidential hopeful Herman Cain has in effect withdrawn from the race for the Republican Party nomination for next year's el
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe leaders of France and Germany have reached agreement on measures for tougherbudgetarycontrols to try to ease the eurozone