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Police in Norway have begun releasing the names of the 76 people killed in Friday's bomb attack in Oslo and mass shooting on a nearby island. Earlier, the lawyer for the man who's admitted carrying out the attacks, Anders Behring Breivik, expressed d
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The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced the creation of an independent commission to look into the events surrounding Friday's bomb attack and mass shooting. The panel will examine the killing of more than 70 people and the role o
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Taliban militants have carried out a major attack in southern Afghanistan, using multiple suicide bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns. More than 20 people have been killed. During the assault in Tarin Kowt, the capital of Uruzgan provin
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One week after 77 people in Norway were killed in a bomb attack and a mass shooting, the first funerals and memorial services for the victims have taken place. The Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said it was an attack on the heart of democracy. Polic
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Reports from the Syrian city of Hama say government tanks have been shelling residential neighbourhoods indiscriminately. They said the shelling intensified just as residents were breaking the dawn-to-dusk fast on the first day of the Muslim holy mon
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President Obama has signed into law an agreement raising the government's debt limit, averting the risk of a possible default. He described the deal, which came after weeks of political wrangling, as an important first step towards ensuring that Amer
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The UN Security Council has condemned the Syrian government's use of force against civilians for the first time since protests began five months ago. As the Syrian army tightens its grip on the embattled city of Hama, the Security Council issued a st
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Stock markets in Europe and the United States have fallen sharply with concern that the eurozone debt crisis could spread to Italy and Spain. The falls came despite interventions by policymakers aimed at restoring calm. The markets in London, Paris a
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Riots have broken out in London for a third consecutive day, this time in broad daylight. Central Hackney, in the east, was cordoned off as youths armed with baseball bats smashed shop windows and hurled missiles at police officers. In the southeast,
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There have been further disturbances in parts of Britain after the unprecedented wave of rioting and looting that brought chaos to several cities on Monday night. Several hundred youths are reported to have clashed with riot police in central Manches
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Police are out in force again in London and other cities across England to try to prevent any repeat of the violence and looting of the last four nights. The Prime Minister David Cameron has promised that the police will get all the resources they ne
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The British Prime Minister David Cameron has told parliament that riots and looting of the kind that spread across England in the last week will not be tolerated. He blamed a culture in which children were not taught right from wrong rather than pove
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The Texas state governor Rick Perry has confirmed he'll stand for the Republican Party nomination in the US presidential elections next year. His announcement comes as eight existing Republican candidates take part in an unofficial straw poll in Iowa
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A resident in the Syrian port of Latakia has given an eyewitness account of the day-long land and sea attack by government forces against democracy activists there. The resident known as Fouad told the BBC what happened. At 6:00am this morning, heavy
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The Indian government has offered to free the veteran Indian anti-corruption campaigner Anna Hazare just hours after his arrest sparked a wave of protest across the country. Earlier, thousands of his followers were detained, mostly for a short time,
