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Rebels in Mali are reported to have taken control of the biggest military camp in the north of the country, a garrison near Gao, after fighting with government forces. The regional group Ecowas has put 2,000 troops on standby. Thomas Fessy is followi
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Sudan has pulled out of negotiations with South Sudan as heavy fighting continues for a second day between the two countries over the disputed Heglig oil field. A senior official in Khartoum said Sudan had also complained to the United Nations and Af
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With the ceasefire in Syria largely holding, the UN Security Council is discussing how to deploy observers to monitor further progress in the six-point international peace plan. Earlier, the international envoy Kofi Annan, who told the council that d
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The official body overseeing the upcoming presidential election in Egypt has barred 10 candidates. They include the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood, Khairat al-Shater, and the former spy chief Omar Suleiman. Jon Leyne reports from Cairo. 监督埃及
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The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch has told a British inquiry into media ethics that he's never asked a prime minister for anything. Mr Murdoch said he wanted to end what he called the myth that he'd used the power or influence of one of his British new
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The head of the United Nations observer team for Syria have arrived there to take charge of the advance deployment. The Norwegian general, Robert Mood, and his team will have the job of monitoring a poorly observed ceasefire that's now in its third w
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President Obama's top counter-terrorism advisor John Brennan has given the most detailed explanation so far of America's use of drone attacks to kill suspected terrorists. In a speech in Washington, Mr Brennan said the strikes by unmanned aircraft we
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The Socialist Francois Hollande has been elected president of France, defeating the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy. He told a crowd in his home city of Tulle that his victory meant the French people wanted a different kind of country. 社会党人弗朗索瓦
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Officials in the United States say they and their allies have disrupted a plot to bomb a plane involving an upgraded device similar to that used unsuccessfully by a underwear bomber on a flight from Yemen to the US in 2009. The device is in the posse
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Barack Obama has become the first American president to back same-sex marriage. In a television interview with ABC News, Mr Obama said he had always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally, but that he had bee
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The United Nations Security Council has condemned two suicide car bombings which left at least 55 people dead in the Syrian capital Damascus. The council members acknowledged the international peace plan for Syria was under strain, but they insisted
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The authorities in Mexico have discovered 49 mutilated bodies dumped on a highway near the northern city Monterrey. Security officials say the bodies have been decapitated and have their hands cut off, making it difficult to identify them. Will Grant
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The former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladic has gone on trial at The Hague on war crimes charges. General Mladic, who's now 70, faces 11 charges, including genocide and the massacre of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995
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The United States has eased some restrictions on investment in Burma because of the political reform process there, but the Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said American sanctions were only being suspended conditionally. The European Union has alr
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There's been a roller-coaster day of trading in shares in the social networking site Facebook after one of the world's biggest ever business floatations. Facebook shares jumped by more than 10% within minutes of making their stock market debut on New
