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BBC News with Gaenor Howells The government of the incumbent leader of Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo says it will cut diplomatic ties with any countries recognising ambassadors named by his rival Alassane Ouattara. The statement came as a delegation fro
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BBC News with David Austin Police in Denmark and Sweden have arrested five people suspected of planning to launch what the authorities described as a Mumbai-style attack designed to kill as many people as possible. The Danish intelligence agency says
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BBC News with Jim Lee There has been international criticism of the decision by a Russian court to keep the former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in prison for an extra six years. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel said it seemed that political mot
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BBC News with Nick Kelly A bomb has exploded in a market close to a military barracks in the Nigerian capital Abuja, killing a number of people. Our correspondent Tomi Oladipo has the latest details. It's in an area which is a market, which has a bar
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BBC News with Julie Candler Dilma Rousseff has been sworn in as the new president of Brazil, the first woman to lead Latin America's biggest nation. In her inaugural speech, she promised to consolidate the work of her predecessor, Luiz Inacio Lula da
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BBC News with Michael Powles The head of world football's governing authority Fifa says he wants to set up a body to investigate allegations of corruption at his organisation. His comments come several weeks after Fifa suspended two members of its ex
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BBC News with David Legge The government of Yemen says two boats crammed with African migrants have capsized off its coast, killing more than 80 people. Rescue teams have found only three survivors. Magdi Abdelhadi reports. The Yemeni interior minist
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BBC News with Marion Marshall One of Pakistan's best-known liberal politicians, the governor of Punjab province Salman Taseer, has been shot dead in Islamabad. Mr Taseer was in a busy market when one of his bodyguards opened fire on him. Orla Guerin
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BBC News with David Austin A new Congress has convened in Washington after mid-term elections in which President Obama's Democratic Party suffered heavy losses to the Republican Party. For the first time in more than four years, the Republicans are i
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BBC News with Marion Marshall The internationally recognised winner of the presidential election in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, has called on the West African regional grouping Ecowas to send in special forces to remove his rival Laurent Gbagbo f
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There's been further rioting in Algeria over food price increases and unemployment, the latest outbreak in several days of unrest. Police have been deployed in force close to mosques and other potential focal points. The government has blamed importe
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A United States congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has been shot in the head during a public event in Arizona. Initial reports suggested she had been killed, but a hospital spokesman said later that she was still alive and in a critical condition. She'
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President Barack Obama has welcomed the successful completion of voting on the first day of southern Sudan's referendum on independence. He said it was a historic step toward implementing the comprehensive peace deal that ended the war between north
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President Obama has led the United States in a moment's silence to honour the victims of Saturday's shooting in Arizona. A single bell tolled for the six people who were killed and for the Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was critical
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A United States presidential commission investigating last year's catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has recommended a series of wide-ranging reforms. In its final report, the commission calls for the creation of an independent safety agenc
