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Pakistan's intelligence chief General Ahmed Shuja Pasha has offered to resign after facing tough questioning about the US special forces raid that killed the al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. General Pasha, who appeared before parliament with his mili
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Army engineers in the American state of Louisiana have opened the first floodgate in an operation that will flood rural homes and large areas of farmland in order to protect cities on the Mississippi River. Heavy rain and melting snow have swollen th
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Israeli troops have fired at protesters on the Lebanese and Syrian borders. Tens of thousands of Palestinians and their supporters had marched to the borders to mark the 63rd anniversary of the creation of the state of Israel. The Lebanese army says
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A judge in New York has denied bail to the head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who's now facing seven charges including the attempted rape of a hotel chamber maid. Judge Melissa Jackson said Mr Strauss-Kahn was a flight r
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The British monarch Queen Elizabeth has made a symbolic visit to a memorial in the Republic of Ireland dedicated to the many Irish people who fought for an end to British rule. She stood alongside the Irish President Mary McAleese as they laid wreath
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In what correspondents describe as a dramatic escalation of American pressure on Syria, the US has imposed its first ever sanctions against President Bashar al-Assad. Washington says he and eight others have been targeted for violence and repression
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President Obama has outlined US policy towards the Middle East in the wake of the momentous events in the region in the past few months. He spoke of peoples who'd risen up and brought about change through non-violence. From Washington, Paul Adams rep
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Troops from northern Sudan say they've taken control of the disputed town of Abyei on the border with southern Sudan. The army of southern Sudan said northern troops had entered Abyei with tanks and that fighting was continuing. James Copnall reports
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The security forces in Pakistan have been fighting a lengthy battle with militants who attacked a naval base in the city of Karachi overnight. Around a dozen well-armed attackers entered the base, setting off explosives. Eleven people are reported to
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A series of massive explosions have shaken the Libyan capital Tripoli in what appears to be a major Nato air strike. Columns of smoke rose above the neighbourhood where Colonel Gaddafi's residential compound is located, as Andrew North reports from T
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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he's ready to compromise to achieve peace with the Palestinians, but he told a joint session of the US Congress in Washington that a future Palestinian state would not see a return to the borders tha
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In an unprecedented address to both houses of the British parliament, President Obama has said that Europe and the United States remain the greatest catalysts for global action. Speaking to hundreds of politicians and dignitaries in the 1,000-year-ol
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The former Bosnian Serb military commander General Ratko Mladic has been arrested by police in Serbia 16 years after he was indicted for alleged war crimes during the Bosnian conflict. The Serbian President Boris Tadic said General Mladic was detaine
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The governing body of world football, Fifa, has opened ethics proceedings against its president Sepp Blatter at the instigation of his rival for the Fifa leadership Mohamed Bin Hammam. Both will answer questions about alleged bribery at Fifa's ethics
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The Fifa president Sepp Blatter has denied that world football is in crisis. At a news conference in Zurich, he acknowledged that Fifa was in difficulties but insisted it could solve its problems by itself. He was speaking for the first time since tw
