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President Barack Obama has described the latest unemployment figures in the United States as devastating. They show that nearly 600,000 jobs disappeared in January, boosting the monthly unemployment rate to 7.6%. It's the thirteenth month in a row th
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The US Vice-President Joe Biden has pledged a new tone in America's foreign policy. He told a security conference in Munich that America would do more for its allies but would ask for more in return. On relations with Iran, Mr. Biden said the Obama a
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President Obama's new envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has given a stark assessment of the task facing the United States in the region. He said the problems in Afghanistan were like nothing the US had had to cope with before. He'
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President Obama has held his first public rally outside Washington since taking office. He used it to call on the US Congress to approve his 800-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan immediately. From Washington, James Coomarasamy. With his economic
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Votes are being counted in Israel's general election, a poll which could have a crucial effect on the Middle East peace process. Exit polls suggest that the centralist Kadima party led by Tzipi Livni is narrowly ahead of the centre-right Likud party
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BBC News with Marian Marshall. Congressional negotiators in the United States have reached agreement on a bill to stimulate the American economy with almost 790 billion dollars. They hope to vote on the plan in the next few days. From Washington, Ric
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The Director of National Intelligence in Washington, Dennis Blair, says the global economic crisis is the main immediate security concern for the United States. Admiral Blair gave his analysis in an annual assessment of the threats the United States
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The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the United States is determined to strengthen its partnerships and alliances in East Asia. Speaking about her tour of the region next week, Mrs Clinton said Washington was willing to normalize rela
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One of the world's leading experts on climate change says a Nobel Prize-winning panel of scientists seriously underestimated the reality of global warming when it published its report just over a year ago. Professor Chris Field, a leading member of t
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Islamist militants fighting the Pakistani army in the Swat valley in northwestern Pakistan have declared a 10-day ceasefire. The move follows an agreement by the government to enforce Sharia law in the district. The militants led by a Taliban cleric
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The United Nations in Sri Lanka says it's concerned by reports that a growing number of people trying to escape Tamil Tiger-held territory in the north have been shot at and sometimes killed by the rebels. The Tigers have been forced into an enclave
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After prolonged negotiations and political wrangling, President Barack Obama has signed into law an economic stimulus package worth almost 800 billion dollars. He said the packag aimed to keep the American dream alive, but was only the start of a lon
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President Obama has announced a massive mortgage relief plan to try to prevent millions of American families losing their homes. The money, 275 billion dollars, is aimed at helping borrowers, those who owe more on mortgages than their properties are
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United Nations officials say that Palestinian Hamas movement which controls the Gaza Strip delivered a letter to the American Senator John Kerry while he was visiting the territory. The head of the UN relief agency in Gaza said the letter was address
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The leader of Israel's right-wing Likud party, Benjamin Netanyahu, has asked the Kadima and Labor parties to discuss joining a broad coalition with him in the face of what he called huge challenges to Israel. Mr. Netanyahu already has the support of
