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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
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BBC News with Charles Carroll.Cyprus has confirmed that its banks will reopen on Thursday. They were closed to prevent a flood of withdrawals while Cyprus negotiated a ba
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BBC News with Mike Cooper.Lawyers representing two same sex couples from California have been arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court for California’s ban on same sex mar
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BBC News with Sue Montgomery.Uhuru Kenyatta who has been confirmed as the winner of Kenya’s presidential election has promised to work with all his countrymen witho
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BBC news with Mario Howget.South Africa's president Jacque Zuma has urged people not to be alarmed over Nelson Mandela's sudden admission to hospital. Mr. Mandela was t
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BBC News with Jerry Smit.Eight police officers have been arrested in Brazil after a television channel broadcast images of two teenagers being shot dead in a poor neighbo
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first-ever internationaltreatytoregulatethe multibillion-dollar arms trad
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BBC News with Charles CarrollThe former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has died in London at the age of 87 after suffering a stroke. Lady Thatcher transformed B
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BBC News with Nick Kelly.Pope Francis has urged the Roman Catholic Church to act with determination to tackle thesexualabuse of children in his first rem
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BBC News with Jonathan Izard.Nelson Mandela has returned to his Johannesburg residence after being discharged from hospital where he’d been treated for pneumonia fo
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BBC News with Marion Marshall.The British Prime Minister David Cameron has praised Margaret Thatcher who died on Monday as an extraordinary leader who’d made Britai
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BBC News with Julie Candler.President Obama has described Monday’s deadly bomb attack on the Boston Marathon as a cowardly act of terror. But he said it remained un