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An independent tribunal in Australia has ordered workers to end a strike which led the management of the Qantas airline to ground all its flights. The ruling by a panel of three judges is binding. The Australian Council of Trade Unions said it would
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Banking shares have fallen in a number of markets amid continuing fears about the impact of the eurozone debt crisis. In London, shares in two partly state-owned banks fell over 7%. Across the Atlantic, shares in Bank of America lost nearly 5%, and a
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The decision by the Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou to call a referendum on last week's European Union aid package has drawn a shocked reaction from political leaders and the financial markets. Shares have fallen sharply across Europe and in N
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The Arab League says Syria has agreed to its proposals to bring an end to the violence which has racked the country for the past seven months. The apparent breakthrough was announced by the Qatari prime minister after a meeting in Cairo, from where J
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The centre-right opposition in Greece has demanded the resignation of the Prime Minister George Papandreou and called for snap elections, throwing into disarray plans for a unity government. Mr Papandreou had earlier suggested a coalition as a way ou
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The fate of George Papandreou's crisis-stricken government will be decided in the next few hours with a confidence debate underway in the Greek parliament. The Socialists barely command a majority after defections from their own ranks following the p
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The Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram says it carried out the wave of shootings and bombings in the northeast of the country, which left at least 65 people dead. Grant Ferrett reports. 尼日利亚伊斯兰博科圣地组织称，已对本国东北部
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The Greek president has held talks with the Prime Minister George Papandreou and the main opposition leader Antonis Samaras on forming a national unity government. Although the meeting has finished, there's no word yet on the outcome. President Karol
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The Iranian armed forces say they've shot down an unmanned American spy plane over eastern Iran and will retaliate if there are any further violations of their airspace. They said the stealth plane suffered minor damage and was now in their possessio
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The leaders of France and Germany have reached agreement on measures for tougher budgetary controls to try to ease the eurozone debt crisis. After meeting in Paris, Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel set out a programme of reforms to strengthen the ru
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阿富汗首都喀布尔什叶派穆斯林朝圣者遭受自杀式炸弹袭击，至少58人死亡，60多人受伤。爆炸发生在什叶派年历最神圣的一天，Quentin Sommerville在喀布尔报道。 At a Kabul hospital, wave after wave of
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President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has denied ordering his military to kill or be brutal towards anti-government protesters, saying only a crazy person would kill his own people. Mr Assad told the American network ABC News that he didn't own the coun
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A key European Union summit on saving the euro currency is underway in Brussels. Shortly before it began, the leaders of France and Germany made dramatic appeals for support. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France warned that the risk of disintegration
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The European Union has decided to press ahead without Britain with a plan to forge a tighter fiscal union. The plan is to sign a pact by March if national parliaments agree. The British Prime Minister David Cameron was the only one of the 27 EU leade
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The Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has tried to reassure the world's financial markets that his country will be able to pay its massive debts. The financial crisis in Italy, one of the world's largest economies, has deepened with the key intere
