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BBC News with Gaenor Howells.The French air force has bombed the key town in the north of Mali on the third day of operations against the Islamists groups that control th
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.Islamist militants have attacked and occupied a gas facility in the east of Algeria seizing foreign hostages. The Algerian state news agency
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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 John Jason.The Malian army backed by French forces has repelled an attack by Islamist militants in the northern city of Timbuktu. French troops pushed the m
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.Chinese state media say rescue teams are working to free 83 miners buried by a landslide near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. More than 1,000 emer
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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