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Tunisia rejects Italian call to send immigration police

Monday, 14 February 2011, 2:53 pm | BBC World News

The Tunisian government has condemned calls from Rome to Italian deploy police in Tunisia to tackle a sudden wave of immigration. More >>

Pakistan: American official 'guilty' in shootings

Monday, 14 February 2011, 1:57 pm | BBC World News

Islamabad, Pakistan - A Pakistani police report says an American Embassy official jailed in the killing of two Pakistani men is More >>

Cuba dissidents Hector Maseda and Angel Moya released

Monday, 14 February 2011, 11:09 am | BBC World News

Cuba has released two more political prisoners who had refused to go into exile in Spain under a deal brokered by the Roman Catholic Church last year. More >>

US man 'kills four people' in New York 28-hour rampage

Monday, 14 February 2011, 11:01 am | BBC World News

A man fatally stabbed his stepfather, ex-girlfriend and her mother, before running over a pedestrian in a 28-hour rampage in New York City, police said. More >>

Italian women hold anti-Berlusconi demonstrations

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:57 am | BBC World News

Italian women have held protests nationwide and abroad against embattled Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. More >>

U2's Bono criticised for endorsing Shoot the Boer song

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:54 am | BBC World News

The Irish pop star Bono has been criticised for apparently endorsing a song which includes the lyric: "Shoot the Boer". More >>

Banned UK reporter Luke Harding back in Moscow

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:45 am | BBC World News

A British journalist barred from Russia last week after reporting on Wikileaks cables containing criticism of Russia's leadership has been allowed to return. More >>

Gunmen kill eight in Mexico City suburb drive-by attack

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:42 am | BBC World News

Mexican officials say unidentified gunmen have killed eight people in Nezahualcoyotl, a working-class suburb of the capital, Mexico City. More >>

Missing Swiss twins' mother joins search in Corsica

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:26 am | BBC World News

The mother of missing Swiss twins - whose father confessed to killing them before committing suicide - has joined a police search for her daughters. More >>

Italy 'to deploy police to Tunisia' to tackle migration

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:19 am | BBC World News

The Italian government is to ask for permission to deploy its police in Tunisia, to tackle a sudden wave of immigration, say officials. More >>

Switzerland rejects tighter gun controls

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:14 am | BBC World News

Swiss voters have rejected proposed tighter controls on gun ownership, final results show. More >>

Burma media warns of 'tragic end' for Aung San Suu Kyi

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:07 am | BBC World News

Burma's state media have published their first direct criticism of the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi since her release from house arrest. More >>

Yemen rocked by third day of protests

Monday, 14 February 2011, 10:02 am | BBC World News

About 2,000 demonstrators have clashed with police in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on the third day of anti-government protests. More >>

Brazil: Indigenous tribes protest against Amazon dam

Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 11:45 am | BBC World News

Hundreds of indigenous Brazilians are protesting in the capital, Brasilia, against the construction of what will be the world's third biggest hydro-electric dam. More >>

Pirates in Indian Ocean seize Italian oil tanker

Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 11:39 am | BBC World News

Pirates have boarded and taken control of an Italian oil tanker in the Indian Ocean, the Italian navy has said. More >>

'US teenagers' killed in Mexican border city shooting

Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 11:33 am | BBC World News

Three teenage boys, at least two of whom are believed to have been US citizens, were shot and killed in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, authorities have said. More >>

Hungary sludge plant 'still a threat', says Greenpeace

Wednesday, 9 February 2011, 10:02 am | BBC World News

Waste Water from a Hungarian aluminium plant still contains toxic chemicals that threaten a local river, despite a big clean-up there, Greenpeace says. More >>

UK Guardian journalist 'expelled from Russia'

Tuesday, 8 February 2011, 1:23 pm | BBC World News

A British journalist who reported on Wikileaks cables containing criticism of Russia's leadership says he has been expelled from the country. More >>

BBC Ask What Austerity Means For Economies

Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 4:28 pm | BBC World News

As more and more countries announce austerity measures, the BBC's international news services-BBC World Service, BBC World News and BBC.com/news-have launched Hard Times–special multimedia content scrutinising the changes being made to the leading economies. More >>

Mandela’s Group The Elders Speak To The BBC

Saturday, 12 June 2010, 12:36 pm | BBC World News

With the eyes of the world on Africa during the World Cup, some of the continent's most distinguished statesman and women, members of Nelson Mandela’s group The Elders have spoken to the BBC’s international news services More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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