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French government resigns ahead of reshufflePresident Sarkozy has accepted the French government’s resignation ahead of a long expected… 13/11/10 20:56 CET
Protest to hold Morocco accountable over deathsSeveral thousand people have protested in Madrid against Morocco over recent violence in Western… 13/11/10 18:50 CET
Obama in exports warning to Asian countriesTensions between the world’s largest economies have re-emerged in Japan, playing host to the… 13/11/10 18:05 CET
Afghan violence on anniversary of Taliban’s fallA bomb hidden on a motorbike has killed at least 10 people, three of them children, in a crowded… 13/11/10 18:05 CET
Japan moves to ease neighbourly tensionChina and Japan have used the APEC summit in Yokohama to try to break the ice in relations that… 13/11/10 18:05 CET
Peru presents footage of hidden Amazon tribeCould a lost tribe still be untouched by civilisation in the 21st century? Yes, say authorities… 13/11/10 18:05 CET
Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi is freedMyanmar’s pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is free for the first time in seven years. And, as… 13/11/10 15:43 CET
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi is freed from house arrestPro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been freed from seven years of house arrest by Myanmar’s… 13/11/10 12:55 CET
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi is released from house arrestMyanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is free. Police removed barricades from outside… 13/11/10 11:50 CET
APEC leaders meet in JapanAnother day, another summit. But after widespread criticism of the G20’s watered-down… 13/11/10 11:47 CET
- G20 gives way to APEC
Barely has the ink dried on the final communique from the G20 summit but nine of its participants… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
Dignitaries honour the influential Magna CartaThe Magna Carta, the world’s most “influential secular document” is closing in on it’s 800th… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
All eyes on France as G20 endsWhile the jury is still out on how successful the G20 in Seoul actually was, the summit closed with… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
Government cuts target Italy’s culture budgetThere are fears that many of Italy’s historic treasures could go to rack and ruin because of large… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
Awaiting Suu Kyi’s freedomThey waited patiently all day in their hundreds outside her party headquarters and her house. But… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
UN’s grim forcast for HaitiThe latest estimate from the United Nations is that as many as 200,000 Haitians could contract… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
- Afghan violence marks anniversary of Taliban’s downfall
Afghanistan has been hit by a fresh wave of violence, nine years to the day since the fall of the… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
UN urges greater cooperation in KosovoEthnic relations in Kosovo appear to be deteriorating and could ignite wider violence. That is… 13/11/10 08:48 CET
