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BBC News with David AustinA gunman has shot dead two senior American military officers inside the heavily guarded Afghan interior ministry in Kabul. Reports say those kil
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryAn Italian cruise ship with 1,000 people on board is floating adrift in the dark in an area of the Indian Ocean where Somali pirates have been
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BBC News with David AustinThe funeral of the American singer Whitney Houston has just ended in Newark, New Jersey. It took place in a Baptist church, where she first bega
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BBC News with Mike CooperSyrian activists have helped to smuggle out of Syria a British photographer, Paul Conroy, who had been trapped in Homs since being wounded there
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says the Syrian authorities have committed clear and widespread crimes against the country's ci
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe United Nations and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan has told President Bashar al-Assad of Syria that he's extremely worried about the violenc
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsThe United Nations says an estimated 1.5 million people in Syria are in need of food aid. The announcement by the UN humanitarian affairs offi
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryPresident Obama has called the Afghan President Hamid Karzai to express his shock and sadness at the killing of 16 Afghan civilians by a
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BBC News with David AustinPresident Obama has said he's taking China to the World Trade Organisation over its export quotas on rare earth minerals so the US gets a fair
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BBC News with Nick KellyThe United Nations says the number of Malian refugees fleeing the fighting between Tuareg rebels and the military has doubled over the past 10 day
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondThe Egyptian authorities have failed to agree a date for the first presidential election of the post-Mubarak era. At a news conference in Cairo w
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BBC News with David AustinThe Red Cross says the first seven people have beenevacuatedfrom the Baba Amr district in the Syrian city of Homs to a local ho
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonThe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has voted in a referendum on a new constitution which he says is designed to turn Syria into abea
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BBC News with David AustinSyrian opposition activists say more than 80 people have been killed by government forces mainly in northern Syria on Tuesday. About 30 died dur
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe International Committee of the Red Cross says the Syrian government has given it permission to enter thebesiegeddistrict of