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BBC News with Marion Marshall.Police in South Africa say they’ve arrested eight of their own officers on suspicion of murdering a taxi driver from Mozambique. Mobil
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The papacy of Benedict XVI has now formally come to an end. In the first papal resignation for 600 years, Benedict handed his authority over
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BBC News with David AustinChad says its army has killed one of the most senior Islamist militants in North Africa Moktar Belmoktar. Moktar Belmoktar was at one point a le
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BBC News with Marion MarshallCardinals gathered in the Vatican have elected a new pope. St Peter’s Square erupted into cheers and applause as white smoke issued fro
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home near London. He was 67. Mr. Berezovsky made a vast fortune i
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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.Parliament in Cyprus has rejected an international bailout package which would have imposed a one-off tax on savings. Hundreds of protesters
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.Finance ministers from the 17 countries using the euro are making last-minute attempts in Brussels to prevent the collapse of the banking sy
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BBC News with Iain Purdon.Parliament in Cyprus is voting on measures aimed at raising the $7.5bn the country needs to secure an international bailout. Among bills passed
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, has defended a 10bn euro bailout deal to save the country’s banks from collapse. Mr Anast
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.Counting is underway in Kenya following the first general elections to be held there since the bitterly contested poll of 2007. Voting had t
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The former British cabinet minister Chris Huhne and his ex-wife Vicky Pryce have been sentenced to eight months in prison for perverting the
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BBC News with Sue MontgomeryThe United States has called for new sanctions on North Korea at the UN. They would for the first time target aspects of the state’s fin
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BBC News with Fiona MacDonald.Britain, Italy and Greece said they believed that seven foreign hostages had been killed in Nigeria, as reported by the militant group that
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BBC News with David Austin.The United States is to bolster its missile defence system to counter what it calls a growing threat from North Korea. The Defence Secretary Ch
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.The coffin of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is inching its way through a huge crowd of his supporters in the streets of the capit