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Less than a week after his arrest in Serbia, the former Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic has arrived in The Hague to face charges of genocide in an international war crimes tribunal. General Mladic has been taken to a UN detention unit wh
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United Nations investigators have accused government forces in Libya of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The UN mission said Libyan opposition forces were also guilty of abuses. Imogen Foulkes sent this report from Geneva. The 90-page report i
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Syrian opposition groups have called on President Assad to resign immediately and make way for a transition to democracy. It comes as Syrian troops and tanks continue operations in the town of Rastan, where more than 50 people are reported to have be
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State television in Yemen has broadcast a brief message from President Ali Abdullah Saleh more than six hours after he was injured in a rocket attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa. But President Saleh was not seen in vision; only his words wer
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German officials now say they believe locally grown bean sprouts are the most likely source of the E.coli bug, which has killed 22 people and infected some 2,000 more in Germany and abroad. The sprouts were sold for use in salads. From Berlin, here's
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Syrian state television is reporting the deaths of at least 120 security personnel in a series of battles with hundreds of gunmen in the northwestern town of Jisr al-Shughour. There have been no independent or Syrian opposition reports from the town,
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There are conflicting reports about the future of the Syrian ambassador to France, Lamia Chakkour. The French television channel France24 carried a statement purporting to be from her announcing her resignation in protest at the suppression of pro-de
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The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country will not close its borders to refugees from Syria as hundreds flee unrest in their country. Tanks and troops led by the Syrian president's brother are reportedly closing in on the town
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The authorities in Syria have been struggling to contain a new wave of anti-government demonstrations across the country. Opposition groups said security forces had opened fire on crowds in several areas, including the capital Damascus. At least 28 p
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The head of al-Qaeda in East Africa, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, has been killed. Somalia's transitional government said DNA tests confirmed his death in a shootout in the capital Mogadishu earlier this week. The United States has welcomed the news, as
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The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term in power and has promised to work with his rivals on a new constitution. He told cheering supporters that he'd focus on consensus and negotiation. From Istanbul, Jonathan Head. 土耳
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International donors have promised $4.3bn for children's vaccination programmes in the developing world, which will target pneumonia and diarrhoea. The money pledged at a conference in London comes from governments and private donors, among them the
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The United Nations says tens of thousands of people in Sudan have been displaced by bombing and fighting in the disputed border state of South Kordofan. The northern military has launched fresh air strikes against groups that are allying to the count
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The Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou has decided to form a new government in an attempt to push through an additional package of austerity measures. Mr Papandreou announced that he'll start shaping his new cabinet on Thursday and then seek a vo
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The euro has fallen sharply on the international money markets because of concern about the debt crisis in Greece, where fresh austerity measures have still not gone through parliament. The euro hit a new low against the Swiss franc, and since Wednes
