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The suspended head of European football Michel Platini has pulled out of the race to become the next FIFA president. He was banned from the game for eight years last month because of corruption allegations over a payment he received from the former F
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A group with links to so called Islamic State says itcarried out the extended gun and bomb assault inthe center of the Indonesian capital Jakarta. Foralmost 3 hours, police battle militants at locations including a Starbucks cafe, a shopping mall,and
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The former governor of US state of Alaska Sarah Palin has given her support to Donald Trumpin his campaign to be the Republican Party's presidential candidate. She praised Mr. Trump'svalues as a father and community leader, and said he could change t
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The son of the Shiah Muslim cleric Nimr Al-Nimr who was executed by Saudi Arabia has critisizedthe west for failing to put more pressure on the Saudi government. In a BBC interview,Mohamoud Al-Nimr said the US and British alliances with the kingdom w
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One of key suspects in the murder in London of Alexander Litvinenko the former Russian spy has told the BBC he had nothing to do with his death by poisoning 10 years ago. A British inquiry has concluded that President Putin probably approved the assa
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Billions of dollars have been wiped off stock marketsaround the world because growing concern aboutplunging oil prices and fears about economicslowdown. In New York, the Dow Jones Index close1.5% down. The main European stock exchanges slip to a 15 m
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The French Prime Minister has warned that Europeansociety could be totally destabilized if it tried to takein every refugee who arrived on the continent. In aBBC interview, Manuel Valls said the migrationcrisis was putting the entire future of the Eu
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The BBC has learned that the sportswear manufacturer Adidas plans to end its multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal with athletics world governing body in the wake of a doping scandal. Our sports editor Dan Roan has more. Last year,the World Anti-dopi
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The US treasury has told the BBC that it considers the Russian president Vladimir Putin to be corrupt. The American government has already imposed sanctions on Mr Putin's aids, but it's thought to be the first time it's directly accused him of corrup
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A donor conference for Syria, at which $9 billion of aid is being sought, opens in London today one day after UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war broke down. Britain has announced it would provide $1.75 billion to be spent in Syri
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The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the 10 billion dollars pledged at a London conference to help victims of the Syrian conflict is no real answer to Syria's troubles.Without a political solution, she said the donors would have to com
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Syrias President Bashar al-Assad has cast doubt on whether a ceasefire proposed for later this week can be implemented. The cessation of hostility was agreed by world Paris in a security meeting in Munich last week. But President al-Assad said the ce
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President Obama has rejected calls by Republican members of the Senate to leave their nomination of a new supreme court judge to his successor. Mr. Obama said he would name a candidate to replace justice Antonia Scalia, who died on Saturday, and the
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A donor conference for Syria, at which $9 billion of aid is being sought, opensin London today one day after UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the Syriancivil war broke down. Britain has announced it would provide $1.75 billion to be spent in Syria
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Football's world governing body, FIFA, will elect a new president on Friday. It will also vote on a package of reforms intended to bring to an end the corruption that contributed to the downfall of the former President, Sepp Blatter. More than 200 de
