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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldPope Benedict has arrived in Cuba at the start of a three-day visit. He was welcomed at the airport by President Raul Castro as well as milit
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BBC News with Gaenor HowellsThe French President Nicolas Sarkozy says the gunman responsible for the murders of a teacher and three children at a school in Toulouse was t
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BBC News with Zoe DiamondThe US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has announced aneasingof sanctions against Burma. She praised recent developments ther
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BBC News with Jonathan IzardThe man who said he killed seven people in al-Qaeda-inspired attacks in France has been shot dead by a police marksman. Mohammed Merah was hid
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldThe United States has reacted sceptically to Syria's acceptance of the peace plan put forward by the UN-Arab League envoy Kofi Annan. The Se
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BBC News with John JasonActivists in Syria say government forces have killed as many as 130 civilians across the country in anescalationof violence ahead
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BBC News with Neil NunesOne of the Republican party candidates for the US presidential nomination, Rick Santorum, says he willdrop out ofthe race, making
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A major earthquake has hit much of southwestern Mexico. The US Geological Survey says it had a magnitude of 7.4 and was centred near the border of Guerrero and Oaxaca states, no
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe European naval force operating off the Horn of Africa is being given a new attack policy allowing it to fight Somali pirates on land as we
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BBC News with David AustinSeveral liberal and secular parties in Egypt havepulled out ofa process to elect a panel to draft a new constitution. One of th
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BBC News with John JasonThe fate of a jailed Bahraini dissident said to be close to death has brought thousands of protesters out on the kingdom's streets. Abdulhadi al-
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BBC News with Jerry SmitThe Russian president has warned that a mission to Syria by the UN-Arab League peace envoy Kofi Annan may be the last chance to avoid civil war. D
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BBC News with Neil NunesWest African leaders have told themutinoustroops who led last week's coup in Mali to restore constitutional order within 72 hour
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BBC News with Stewart MacintoshWith the ceasefire in Syria largely holding, the UN Security Council is discussing how todeployobservers to monitor furthe
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldMilitary and diplomatic pressure is growing on the army mutineers who overthrew the government of Mali last week. Tuareg rebels in the north