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Finance ministers from the 15 permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council have unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at cutting funds for the so called Islamic State group. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the world neede
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European leaders meeting in Brussels say they are willing to compromise to try to keep Britain in the union, but they stress that any deal mustn't break core EU principles. At the summit, the British Prime Minister expressed hard his demands for cont
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The traditional two-party system of Spanish politics has been shaken up by the success of two new movements in the country's general elections. With nearly all votes counted, the governing Popular Party is forecast to lose its parliamentary majority
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France says it turned away nearly 3.5 thousand people from its borders since a state of the emergency with introduced after last month attacks in Paris. The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they were refused entry because they posed a
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The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has told the BBC that his military is close to defeating the Islamist group Boko Haram. Mr Buhari said the militants could no longer mount conventional attacks against government forces or centers of popula
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There has been a large explosion at an industrial gas plant in southern Nigeria. Media reports say dozens of people have been burnt to death with some reports putting the number of dead at 100. Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar reports from Abuja. It's not cl
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Ukraine's parliament has approved a budget for 2016 after a warning from the prime minister Arseny Yatsenyk that failure to do so would plunge the nation to an economic catastrophe. Approving the budget was a key condition to secure the next tranche
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The Iraqi military says it now has control of a complex of government buildings that's been the center of battle for the city of Ramadi. IS fighters appeared to have withdrawn from the compound although troops are still confronting pockets of resista
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The pro-independence movements in the Spanish region of Catalonia is in disarray after it failed to choose a leader. Delegates from the leftist party in the alliance of the CUP splits over whether to support a pro-independence administration led by t
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The US military says coalition air strikes in Syriaand Iraq have killed two Islamic State commanders linked to the attacks inParis in November, as well as eight other senior IS figures. Laura Bickerreports from Washington. The operation to degrade an
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Voters in the Central African Republic are finally due to cast their ballots today in presidential and parliamentary elections. Thirty candidates are vying to become president to replace the current interim leader. Tomi Oladipo has this report. The e
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In an emotional speech at the White House, President Obama has detailed his plans to tighten gun controls. He introduced the new measures including background checks by executive order sidestepping congressional opposition. Jon Sopel reports. His nic
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North Korea has said that it has for the first time successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. The announcement was made on state television. It came hours after a tremor with a magnitude of 5.1 was detected near a known nuclear test site in the northeast
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The UN Security Council has agreed to start work immediately on drawing up newsanctions against North Korea following its claim to have tested a hydrogenbomb. There is skepticism that Pyongyang's latest nuclear test, the fourth in adecade, was powerf
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The trading on Chinas stock market has have been suspended for the second day this week after prices plunged by more than 7%. And automatic shut down was triggered less than hour after business opened. Steve Evens reports from Beijing. After the cras
