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BBC with Ian Perten. The Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that Israel is not interested in remaining in Gaza and wants its troops out as quickly as possible. He was speaking a day after Israel announced a unilateral ceasefire in Gaza, and
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BBC News with Marian Marshall. The full scale of the destruction in Gaza from Israel's three-week offensive is becoming clear as Israeli troops withdraw following a ceasefire. Aid agencies have described the worst-hit areas as looking as if theyve be
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BBC News with Aleem Maqbool. President Obama has entered the White House for the first time since assuming office earlier today. He traveled there with his wife Michelle in a huge parade. They got out of their car to acknowledge the thousands of chee
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The new administration in Washington has named two key envoys to deal with what the newly appointed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has described, as the two most pressing foreign policy issues confronting the United States. Richard Holbrooke, who
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The commander of the Sri Lankan army has suggested that the country's civil war is nearly over. Lietenant General Sarath Fonseka was speaking on national television after his troops captured Mullaittivu, the last major town held by the Tamil Tiger re
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Spain's largest bank, the Santander Group, says it'll pay back 1. 8 billion dollars to clients who bought into one of its funds that was exposed to the multi-billion-dollar fraud, allegedly run by the American financier Bernard Madoff. The bank propo
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The International Monetary Fund has warned that the world is facing its most severe economic downturn since the Second World War. In its latest forecast, the organization says that it expects the global growth rate to be only 0.5% this year. The IMF'
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BBC News with David Austin. The World Food Program has warned that more than half the population of Zimbabwe, seven million people, may need food aid to survive the coming months. The government has meanwhile announced that it's allowing people to us
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The Movement for Democratic Change in Zimbabwe says it'll join a national unity government with the Zanu-PF Party of President Robert Mugabe. The new administration is to be formed by February 13th, ending ten months of political paralysis. The MDC l
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Iraq's first major elections since 2005 have passed off relatively peacefully. The Prime Minister, Nouri al-Maliki, said the vote for provincial councils was a victory for all. In Washington, President Obama described it as an important step. Jim Mui
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An operation is under way in Colombia to release four hostages held by the left-wing FARC movement. Helicopters with Red Cross representatives on board flew to a prearranged spot in the jungle to collect the hostages. The rebels say they intend to fr
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The US Senate is debating President Obama's 800-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan. Speaking before the debate, President Obama predicted a difficult next few days, but the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, Harry Reid, said he hopes to pus
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President Barack Obamas nominee as the new US Secretary of Health, Tom Daschle, has withdrawn from the post because of problems with his taxes. On Friday, it was disclosed that he had failed to pay more than 100,000 dollars of tax. President Obama sa
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Two senior judges in Britain have made a scathing attack on the American authorities for putting pressure on them to withhold information about how a British resident currently held in Guantanamo Bay was treated. The material relates to allegations t
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President Barack Obama has issued a stark new warning on the United States economy, saying that it is getting sicker by the day. Mr. Obama said that if Congress failed to pass his economic stimulus package, the recession could linger for years and de
