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BBC News with Nick KellyThe Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, defeating theincumbentNicolas Sarkozy. He told a crowd in h
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryDocuments seized from Osama bin Laden'shideouta year ago appear to show that the head of al-Qaeda had become frustrated with
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BBC News with Marion MarshallMauritanian and Libyan government officials say that Colonel Gaddafi's former intelligence chief Abdullah Senussi has been captured. The Mau
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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 Marion MarshallGovernment security forces in Afghanistan say they've seized two massiveconsignmentsof explosives in different parts of the
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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
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BBC News with Jonathan WheatleyThe man accused of killing 77 people in Norway last July has pleaded not guilty to acts of terror and mass murder at the opening day of his
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonaldRebels in Mali are reported to have taken control of the biggest military camp in the north of the country, agarrisonnear Ga
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BBC News with Marion MarshallThe Vatican says Pope Benedict has met the former President of Cuba, Fidel Castro, who led the 1959 revolution which made Cuba officially
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BBC news with Jerry SmitPresident Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan has given the most detailed explanation so far of America's use of drone attacks to
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BBC News with Nick KellyThe United Nations Security Council has backed a deadline of next Tuesday for Syrian forces to end their offensive against the opposition. The cou