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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 Jerry SmitThe UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to approve an expanded monitoring mission to Syria. He was speaking after the
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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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BBC News with Nick KellyA passenger plane has crashed in Pakistan, close to the capital Islamabad, killing all 127 people on board. It was attempting to land in a thunder
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BBC News with Iain PurdonThe mediatycoonRupert Murdoch has told a British inquiry into media ethics that he's never asked a prime minister for anything.
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BBC News with Julie CandlerThe United Nations Security Council has voted todeployup to a further 300 unarmed military observers in Syria. They'll spend
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BBC News with Julie CandlerA United Nations-backed court has found the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, guilty of aiding andabettingcrimes ag
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BBC News with Kathy ClugstonThe Lebanese navy haveintercepteda ship with three containers full of weapons and ammunition intended to supply Syrian rebels
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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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The man accused ofmastermindingthe 9/11 attacks on United States has refused to respond to questions at a militant tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. The Pentagon has
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BBC News with Jerry SmitThe head of the United Nations observer team for Syria have arrived there to take charge of the advance deployment. The Norwegian general, Robert
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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