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The United States says the Congolese war crime suspect Bosco Ntaganda has handed himself in at the US embassy in Rwanda and asked to be transferred to the International Criminal Court, the ICC, in The Hague. Our East Africa correspondent Gabriel Gate
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Parliament in Cyprus has rejected an international bailout package which would have imposed a one-off tax on savings. Hundreds of protesters outside parliament cheered the result. Not a single MP voted for the deal despite an amendment sparing small
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Banks in Cyprus are to stay closed until Tuesday as the government struggles to avert a financial collapse. There are fears of a run on the banks. Reports say a cabinet meeting is deciding how to prevent large amounts of cash leaving the island. Mark
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The most prominent Sunni cleric supporting the Syrian government has been killed by a bomb blast at a mosque in central Damascus. Mohammed al-Buti died along with 40 other people in what Syrian state television said was a terrorist suicide attack at
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Parliament in Cyprus is voting on measures aimed at raising the $7.5bn the country needs to secure an international bailout. Among bills passed already by the assembly are the creation of a solidarity fund and a law giving the government powers to im
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The exiled Russian businessman Boris Berezovsky has been found dead at his home near London. He was 67. Mr. Berezovsky made a vast fortune in the 1990s after the breakup of the Soviet Union. From Moscow, Steve Rosenberg 俄罗斯流亡商人鲍里斯别
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Finance ministers from the 17 countries using the euro are making last-minute attempts in Brussels to prevent the collapse of the banking system in Cyprus. The European Central Bank has warned it would suspend emergency funding for Cypriot banks unle
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The president of Cyprus, Nicos Anastasiades, has defended a 10bn euro bailout deal to save the countrys banks from collapse. Mr Anastasiades, who negotiated the agreement with the EU and the IMF in Brussels, said in a televised address that the agree
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Lawyers representing two same sex couples from California have been arguing in the U.S. Supreme Court for Californias ban on same sex marriage to be overturned. One of the lawyers Theodore Orson compared the ban to that on interracial marriages which
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South Africa's president Jacque Zuma has urged people not to be alarmed over Nelson Mandela's sudden admission to hospital. Mr. Mandela was taken to hospital on Thursday night on the advice of his doctors. He's said to be responding well to treatment
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Chinese state media say rescue teams are working to free 83 miners buried by a landslide near the Tibetan capital Lhasa. More than 1,000 emergency workers have been sent to the disaster site. Heres Steve Jackson. 中国国家媒体报道称，西藏自
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Uhuru Kenyatta who has been confirmed as the winner of Kenyas presidential election has promised to work with all his countrymen without discrimination. Earlier the Supreme Court upheld the election result and dismissed the challenge by his main riva
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The Malian army backed by French forces has repelled an attack by Islamist militants in the northern city of Timbuktu. French troops pushed the militants out of the city earlier this year, but sporadic fighting has continued. Tomma Fessy reports from
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Eight police officers have been arrested in Brazil after a television channel broadcast images of two teenagers being shot dead in a poor neighbourhood of the country's largest city of Sao Paulo. Investigators are trying to trace a third teenager who
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The U.N. General Assembly has overwhelmingly approved the first-ever international treaty to regulate the multibillion-dollar arms trade. It sets new standards for the export of conventional weapons from kalashnikov to battle tanks. Countries will ha
