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President Obama has outlined his plan for cutting America's huge budget deficit, saying that corporations and the wealthiest citizens must pay higher taxes. Speaking at the White House, Mr Obama said it was wrong that someone earning only $50,000 a y
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The man leading Afghanistan's efforts to negotiate peace with the Taliban has been killed by a suicide bomber at his home in the capital Kabul. Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former president of Afghanistan, was meeting two members of the Taliban at the time
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The most senior American military officer Admiral Mike Mullen says the militant Haqqani group, which has carried out a series of recent attacks in Afghanistan, is an arm of Pakistan's intelligence service. Admiral Mullen told US senators that Haqqani
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The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has received rousing applause at the United Nations General Assembly after flourishing his formal application for UN membership for a Palestinian state. The United States had opposed the move, threatening to ve
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The forces of the Libyan National Transitional Council, the NTC, have entered one of the two remaining strongholds held by pro-Gaddafi forces, the city of Sirte. It's unclear how many Gaddafi loyalists are still holding out there. The BBC's Alastair
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The defence lawyer for Michael Jackson's personal doctor has told a court in Los Angeles that the singer caused his own death. Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray denies involuntary manslaughter. His lawyer Ed Chernoff said that when Doctor Murray was not
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Rwanda has failed to secure the extradition from France of the former Rwandan First Lady Agathe Habyarimana. She's accused of being a chief architect of the 1994 genocide that followed the death of her husband. A French appeal court ruled that the in
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American officials have announced new sanctions against what they are calling dangerous terrorist groups operating in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The financial sanctions against five named individuals come as the United States urges Pakistan to clamp d
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President Obama has confirmed that one of Al Qaeda's most influential figures, the American-born cleric Anwar al-Aulaqi has been killed in Yemen. He said Mr al-Aulaqi had taken a leading role in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent Ameri
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Thousands of Libyans have been fleeing from the city of Sirte, one of the last strongholds of colonel Gaddafi's forces under a temporary ceasefire. The city has been under siege for weeks but Gaddafi loyalists continued to offer fierce resistence. Jo
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A former senior Rwanda official who was close confidential of the current president Paul Kagame has accused the Rwanda leader of ordering the shooting down of the plane in Apiral,1994, carrying the then head of the state, Habyarimana. The former offi
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Bahrain's public prosecutor has ordered a retrial in a civilian court for 20 medical workers sentenced to up to 15 years in prison after helping anti-government protesters. Announcing the retrial, the public prosecutor said no doctors or medical staf
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President Obama has urged eurozone leaders to act fast to resolve their debt crisis, saying it poses a threat to America's faltering economic recovery. Mr Obama said Europe's economic uncertainty was the biggest headwind currently facing the United S
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Forces of the interim authorities in Libya have encountered stiff resistance from the Gaddafi loyalists as they renewed their attack on the centre of the city of Sirte, one of the last pro-Gaddafi strongholds. Commanders said they've come under heavy
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Egyptian officials say at least 17 people have been killed in clashes in Cairo between members of the minority Coptic Christian community and the security forces. At least 150 were injured. Thousands of Copts were demonstrating over the burning of a
