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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has been making fresh promises to end violence in his country, talk to the opposition and bring in reforms.
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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 Iranian government has condemned European Union sanctions imposed in an attempt to stop Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons programme, calli
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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 Marion MarshallThe BBC has been told that the Afghan government plans to meet Taliban officials in Saudi Arabia in the next few weeks. If they go ahead, the
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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 Gaenor HowellsThe Egyptian authorities say at least 73 people have died and more than 1,000 injured in northeast Egypt in clashes between rival football fan
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BBC News with David AustinThere's been a harsh exchange of words at the United Nations after Russia and China vetoed a resolution critical of Syria. The Americans said t
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe Egyptian police have fired tear gas at demonstrators in the capital Cairo as public anger mounted over football violence. The demonstrato
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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