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  • News and analysis of the day's top stories from around the globe - helping you to make sense of a rapidly-changing world by providing concise insights into key events of international interest.
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GlobalNews: 07 Dec 09 AM

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Copenhagen Climate Summit set to begin / Disabled in Haiti / Student day in Tehran

GlobalNews: 04 Dec 09 PM

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Climate change debate / Rawalpindi mosque attack / Polanski released on bail

GlobalNews: 04 Dec 09 AM

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Timbuktu salt caravans / photographing world leaders / Guinea coup attempt / North Korea currency problems

GlobalNews: 03 Dec 09 PM

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Somali ministers killed in graduation blast / Putin may return in 2012 / A 'fugitive' off the electronic trail.

GlobalNews: 03 Dec 09 AM

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Taliban commander speaks / Bhopal 25 years on / thinking in a 'possiblian' way / Mau Mau veteran / Dubai debt

GlobalNews: 02 Dec 09 AM

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Obama announces more troops for Afghanistan / Changing views on disability in the UK / The role of radio in Rwanda's genocide

GlobalNews: 01 Dec 09 AM

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British yachtsmen in Iranian custody / South Africa allows soldiers with HIV to serve on the front line / First country to eradicate landmines / World's largest stockpile of fungi

GlobalNews: 30 Nov 09 AM

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Honduras decides / Iran to expand nuclear programme / Switzerland bans minaret construction

GlobalNews: 01 Apr 09 AM

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G20 and Protectionism / Israel government / Matchstick town in Britain / Saving the rainforest

GlobalNews: 31 Mar 09 AM

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Afghanistan Conference / North African Migrants / Gaza Domestic Violence / A Malaysian view on protectionism

GlobalNews: 30 Mar 09 AM

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US GM Resign / Ivory Coast Football / Afghanistan Migration

GlobalNews: 13 MAR 09 AM

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Madoff admits $50 billion fraud scheme/Aid workers pull out of Sudan/Ethical investment/Cocaine and Violence/Chinese in Tibet/Self healing plastic/Bionic eye.

GlobalNews: 06 Jan 09 PM

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Gaza child trauma / Israeli army iv / Prison Yoga / Galaxy doomed.

GlobalNews: 19 Dec 08 AM

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Hamas ends truce / Alan Johnston and Ingrid Betancourt / Rwanda

GlobalNews: 17 Dec 08 AM

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US interest rate at lowest level/Rare insight into the earth's history/Central African Republic's tragedy

GlobalNews: 16 Dec 08 AM

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Nobel physicist named US energy secretary/Investors entangled in Madoff case/Scrabble is 60 years old

GlobalNews: 12 Dec 08 PM

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EU and Japan boost economies / Climate change deal / DRC diary.

GlobalNews: 05 Dec 08 AM

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Rescue package for US carmakers/Mexico's fight against drug cartels/ Profiteers of the DR Congo war

GlobalNews: 29 Sep 08 AM

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Financial Bailout / Al Qaeda / Somalian pirates / Belarus elections

GlobalNews: 26 Sep 08 PM

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Food scare goes global / Austria far right / Channel Rocket man.

Saffron Country

Tue, Dec 11 2007 Listen
Iran is best known, economically, as one of the world's largest oil exporters. But it is also the world's number one producer of saffron. The government is working hard to improve the lot of saffron farmers - with important political consequences, as our correspondent Jon Leyne discovered when he visited eastern Iran.

Torture or Technique?

Tue, Dec 11 2007 Listen
A former CIA interrogator has confirmed that al-Qaeda suspects have been subjected to an interrogation technique known as "water-boarding". President Bush has repeatedly said the US doesn't use torture - so the question is whether waterboarding is torture or not. We spoke to amnesty international, but first former CIA man John Kiriakou.

Blasts in Algiers

Tue, Dec 11 2007 Listen
Two explosions in the Algerian capital have killed at least 22 people. One of the bombs targeted the offices of United Nations agencies in Algiers. We speak to a representative of the UN and to a North Africa analyst.

NY to N Korea

Mon, Dec 10 2007 Listen
The New York Philharmonic Orchestra is to play in North Korea in February. Are such trips a way of breaking down barriers? British soprano Suzannah Clarke has performed in Pyongyang several times.

Black sentenced

Mon, Dec 10 2007 Listen
The disgraced media tycoon Conrad Black has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for raiding the coffers of his company Hollinger International of millions of dollars. We hear from the Chicago courtroom.

Progress on space-based solar

Sun, Dec 9 2007 Listen
Scientists in Europe and the United States say they're close to one possible way of combatting global warming; it's a new design for giant solar panels which would orbit the earth. Pallab Ghosh is the BBC's Science Correspondent.

Africa EU summit: a success?

Sun, Dec 9 2007 Listen
The Africa EU summit ended with the adoption of a new Strategic Partnership agree-ment covering security and democracy, but opinions differed as to its success. Louis Michel is EU Develop-ment Commissioner. Plus why Robert Mugabe made the Ugandan-born Anglican Archbishop of York cut up his clerical collar on TV today.

Battle in Afghanistan

Sun, Dec 9 2007 Listen
Afghan government and International Security Assist-ance Force (ISAF) troops are trying to wrest control of Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan back from the Taleban. General Dan McNeil is the US Commander of ISAF.

Is recession good?

Sat, Dec 8 2007 Listen
The credit crunch in the financial markets means there's less funding for businesses and investors. Could that be good for the environment? Listen to Green MEP Dr Caroline Lucas.

Kosovo fears

Sat, Dec 8 2007 Listen
Talks on Kosovo remain deadlocked: the Albanian majority is determined to achieve independence; Serbia remains implacably opposed. Alan Little reports on new fears of ethnic violence.

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