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Thousands of anti-government protesters in the Yemeni capital Sanaa say they don't trust President Ali Abdullah Saleh to keep his promise to step down. Mr Saleh agreed on Saturday to hand over power to his deputy within 30 days, but the protesters sa
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Britain, France and Italy have become the latest countries to demand that Syria stop using violence against anti-government protesters. The British government has warned it will push for sanctions if the repression continues. In the Syrian city of De
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Violent storms that ripped through the southern United States on Wednesday are now known to have killed more than 250 people. A state of emergency has been declared in Alabama. One of the worst-hit places there was Tuscaloosa, where Mike Honeysutt wa
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Prince William, the second in line to the British throne, and his bride Kate Middleton have been married in a glittering ceremony at Westminster Abbey. Kate, who now has the title Duchess of Cambridge, told a news agency photographer We had a great d
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Angry crowds have attacked diplomatic buildings in the Libyan capital Tripoli in response to reports that one of Colonel Gaddafis sons was killed in a NATO airstrike. The Italian and American embassies along with the UN mission were also targeted. Th
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Residents of the Syrian city of Deraa say the army has seized control of a mosque associated with anti-government protesters. Witnesses said troops backed by tanks stormed the Omari mosque. As Western journalists have been denied permission to enter
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The American intelligence agency, the CIA, has said the United States did not inform Pakistan about the operation to capture Osama Bin Laden because it feared the Pakistani authorities would alert him. Pakistan has described the US raid on Sunday in
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The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said that the killing of the founder of al-Qaeda Osama Bin Laden by American special forces is a milestone in the war on terrorism, but that the battle is not yet over. She said that Bin Ladens deat
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President Obama has decided not to release photographs of the body of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by US forces in Pakistan on Sunday night. A White House spokesman said the president had decided against releasing the graphic images in case they i
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The army in Pakistan has publicly admitted there were shortcomings in the way the country gathered intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden before he was traced and killed in Pakistan by American special forces. The acknowledgement came aft
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President Obama has met the American special forces that killed the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden on Monday morning. At a private ceremony at a military base in Kentucky, he awarded them the Presidential Unit Citation, the highest honour of its kin
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Senior United States intelligence officials have for the first time said that Osama Bin Laden was in active control of al-Qaeda right up to his death in the American raid on his compound in Pakistan. The officials said the raid yielded the biggest co
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President Obama has called on the Pakistani government to investigate the support network that sustained Osama Bin Laden in the secret compound where he was killed by US commandos last week. In a television interview, Mr Obama said he had no evidence
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In one of the biggest financial trials for decades, a court in New York has convicted a well-known financier, Raj Rajaratnam, of insider trading. The prosecution's evidence relied largely on intercepted phone calls with some of the most senior execut
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New research suggests the risk of an HIV-positive person transmitting the disease to an uninfected partner can be reduced drastically if they are given early treatment with anti-retroviral drugs. A large-scale trial of couples across four continents
