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The Thai opposition leader Yingluck Shinawatra has led her party to victory in the general election five years after her brother Thaksin was deposed in a military coup. Provisional returns gave Ms Yingluck's Pheu Thai party a clear majority of seats,
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President Hugo Chavez has returned home to Venezuela from Cuba, where he admitted having cancer surgery. His long absence and initial secrecy about his medical condition provoked uncertainty in Venezuela. From Caracas, Sarah Grainger. 委内瑞拉总统
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The British parliament is holding a rare emergency debate on Wednesday on the scandal engulfing the media group News International. One of its papers, the News of the World, is said to have paid for the hacking of the mobile phone of a murdered girl,
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The owner of the media giant News Corporation, Rupert Murdoch, has said he's ordered full cooperation with all investigations into allegations of phone hacking against one of his British newspapers, allegations he called deplorable and unacceptable.
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News International, the media group at the centre of a major phone hacking scandal, says this Sunday's edition of its News of the World newspaper will be the last. The company's chairman James Murdoch said the paper had been in the business of holdin
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The last US space shuttle has blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida, bringing an end to the 30-year-old programme. For the first time in half a century, the space agency Nasa has no manned space flights on its agenda. Jonny Dymond witnessed the
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World leaders have congratulated the Republic of South Sudan on gaining independence. The American President Barack Obama said it was a reminder that after the darkness of war, a new dawn was possible. Tens of thousands of people celebrated in the ca
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The Obama administration is suspending about a third of its annual aid to the Pakistani military, worth about $800m. The White House chief of staff Bill Daley said Pakistan was an important ally against terrorism but some of its conduct had given Was
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The media empire of the tycoon Rupert Murdoch is under growing pressure after a day of further revelations in Britain about the behaviour of its journalists. First, it was alleged that the News of the World newspaper may have bribed a police protecti
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After days of unprecedented pressure on Rupert Murdoch over alleged malpractices by some of his journalists, the British parliament is to discuss a call for him to withdraw his News Corporation's bid for the major satellite broadcaster BSkyB. The Bri
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Three bombs have gone off in India's main commercial city Mumbai, killing at least 20 people and injuring more than 100. From Mumbai, here's Rajini Vaidyanathan. The bombs went off at a busy time of day - 7:00pm in the evening rush hour - at three ve
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has opened an inquiry into allegations that Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation sought to hack into phones of victims of the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington 10 years ago. The decision fol
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The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has made a personal apology to the family of a murdered British schoolgirl, Milly Dowler, whose phone was allegedly hacked by one of his newspapers. News International said Mr Murdoch would also apologise for what he c
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Britain's top police officer Sir Paul Stephenson has resigned, the latest casualty in the scandal over phone hacking and alleged corruption by journalists at Rupert Murdoch's British newspaper group. Sir Paul said he was stepping down because of asso
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A second senior police officer has resigned in Britain in connection with the scandal over phone hacking and alleged corruption in the Rupert Murdoch newspaper empire. Assistant Commissioner John Yates stood down 24 hours after his boss, Britain's to
