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Bahrain takes aim at activists

Patrick Cockburn: Deal with Saudis to shore up Bahrain's repressive regime.
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A homeless man in Los Angeles, California: the state is cutting healthcare and welfare payments and the Governor is calling for tax rises to avert disaster

Ninth largest economy in world resorts to austerity

California, America's 'golden state', is slashing spending to avoid a Greek-style default
Texas executed innocent man, claims report
Two dead after Colombia capital bombing targeting former minister
I've found Zodiac killer, says former policeman
Kodak reveals it had secret nuclear reactor for 30 years
Rewired nerves allow paralysed man to use hand
Carlos Fuentes, author of The Old Gringo, dies at 83
Strauss-Kahn sues hotel maid
Two killed in Bogota explosion
Mitt Romney's last rival finally quits the nomination race
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Rain pours down as Hollande arrives at the Arc de Triomphe as part of the new President's inauguration ceremony

Rain on his parade – then Hollande flies into a storm

President races from inauguration to meet Merkel in Berlin – and demands a growth plan
Bosnian Serb commander General Ratko Mladic faces war crimes trial in the Hague
Spain: Tempers fray as protests continue
Greece: Voters will have their say again as leaders abandon bid to form coalition
Poor growth numbers raise new euro fears
Eurozone woes hamper progress on trade deficit
Man sets himself alight outside Breivik trial as survivors relive ordeal
Italy's banks stung by mass downgrade
High court postpones Tymoshenko appeal
Two giraffes die in Polish zoo break-in
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'Black box' found of Russia jet in Indonesia crash

Searchers have found the cockpit voice recorder from a Russian passenger jet that smashed into the side of an Indonesian volcano, killing 45 people. The recording of comments by the plane's veteran pilots could help explain what caused the crash.

In Japan, the lights are already starting to go out...
Pakistan's relations with Nato show signs of thaw
Gaga gagged as Indonesia cancels gig
Controversial Taliban poetry anthology to be published
Afghan torture claim detainee seeks review
Indonesia bans Lady Gaga concert over fears she'll corrupt kids
Rocket blasts off from Kazakhstan as crew begins space station mission
Navy frigate raids pirate vessels
Billionaire Nina Wang's lover fights claims he forged will
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Left, Ze'ev Jabotinsky; right, David Ben Gurion, Israel's founding Prime Minister

A tale of two Zionists: the dramatic origins of Israel

A Jewish playwright is staging a conversation that shaped history. He tells Donald Macintyre how it can help to form the future
Iran hangs 'Mossad spy' for killing scientist
UN observer team's car damaged in Syrian explosion
Syrian regime fires on funeral, say activists
Syrian troops are targeting health workers, says aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres
Israel bows to pressure to end mass hunger strikes by Palestinians
Rebel fighters build shadow state in Syria's countryside
23 regime troops killed in Syria dawn raid
Nato defends its role over civilian deaths in Libya
Gulf keeps close watch as Saudis hold union talks with Bahrain
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One killed in grenade blast in Kenyan coastal city

Gunmen detonated grenades outside a night club in the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa yesterday, killing one person and wounding several others in the latest attack since Kenya sent troops into Somalia to crush Islamist militants.

EU launches air attack on Somali pirates
Kony's top strategist captured
Libyans want answers over deadly Nato airstrikes
Top Joseph Kony crony Caesar Achellam captured in ambush
Man declared dead wakes up at his funeral in Egypt
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Liberian warlord 'would not be safe' in UK prison
Liberian warlord 'would not be safe' in UK prison
Suspected rhino poacher shot dead in South Africa
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Don Ritchie saved people at The Gap, a notorious suicide spot in Sydney

Australia mourns 'Angel of the Gap', the man who talked 160 out of suicide

For nearly five decades he gazed out of his Sydney home overlooking the Pacific Ocean, inspired by one of Australia's most picturesque views. But it was not just a love for the sea that drew him to the dramatic panorama.
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Australia's Speaker Peter Slipper (and ordained priest) hit by sexual harassment claims
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Century-old battle over tiny plot of land in the Cook Islands comes to Britain
Briton Jason Downie jailed for Australia triple murder
Gillard outlines Afghanistan withdrawal timetable
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Pakistan's relations with Nato show signs of thaw

EU naval force airstrike on Somali pirates destroys equipment
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Horst Faas, the photographer whose images defined the Vietnam War, dies aged 79
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Australia mourns 'Angel of the Gap', the man who talked 160 out of suicide

Australia mourns 'Angel of the Gap'

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The white album: celebration of British music hits sour note as black artists are overlooked

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