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Flush with pride

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 0:15
related countries: Sierra Leone

Fighting corruption gives Sierra Leone ministry water
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EU threat to retained fire crews

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 0:57
related countries: United Kingdom

One of Scotland's most senior fire officers claims EU regulations could be jeopardising public safety.
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Europeans 'kidnapped in Sahara'

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 1:05
related countries: Niger, Mali

Unknown attackers have kidnapped four European tourists near the Niger-Mali border, Malian officials say.
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Mexico and US broadcasters settle

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 1:09
related countries: Spain, United States, Mexico

Mexico's top broadcaster and a US partner settle a dispute that had threatened Spanish-language programming in the US.
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Barack Obama keeps BlackBerry and becomes first e-mail president

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 1:15
related countries: United States
related places: Blackberry, White House

Barack Obama is to keep his BlackBerry, becoming the first US president to have e-mail in the White House.
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Spanish police seize 'fake' Dalis

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 1:25
related countries: Spain

Spanish police confiscate dozens of suspected fake artworks by Salvador Dali that were due to be offered for sale.
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Mexico to rethink death penalty

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 1:34
related countries: Mexico

The Mexican Congress will debate reinstating capital punishment for some crimes, following a surge in violent crime.
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Competition comes up with great ideas for Italian Job ending

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 3:04
related countries: Italy

The Royal Society of Chemistry announces the winner of a competition to solve the conundrum at the end of the film The Italian Job.
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Obama financial team takes shape

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 4:23
related countries: United States
related places: Monday

The US Senate approves Mary Schapiro to head the SEC, while the new Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, is set for confirmation on Monday.
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US city rejects English-only law

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 5:03
related countries: United States
related places: English, Nashville

Voters in Nashville reject a proposal that would have required all government business to be done in English.
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UN awaits Thai reply on migrants

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 6:33
related countries: Burma, Thailand

The UN awaits a Thai response on the fate of 126 Burmese migrants, amid claims previous groups were cast adrift at sea.
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Samsung loss adds economic gloom

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 7:20
related countries: South Korea

South Korea's Samsung posts its first ever quarterly loss, helping to send Asian markets downwards.
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Liverpool 'in new takeover talks'

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 7:49
related countries: Kuwait

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks is in takeover talks with Kuwait billionaire Nasser Al-Kharafi, BBC Sport understands.
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US envoy warns over Iraq pullout

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 7:52
related countries: Iraq, United States

The outgoing American ambassador in Iraq, Ryan Crocker, warns against what "a precipitous withdrawal" of US troops.
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New lingua franca upsets French

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 8:04
related countries: France

Hugh Schofield discovers how a new version of English being spoken by business people is taking over in France.
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Whale pod stuck on sandbar dying

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 8:14
related countries: Australia

Most of a pod of about 50 whales which got trapped on a sandbar have died, say officials in Tasmania, Australia.
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Fans clash after Djokovic victory

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 8:54
related countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aruba

Serbian and Bosnian tennis supporters throw chairs and trade punches after Novak Djokovic's third round win over Amer Delic at the Australian Open.
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Norway school shooting kills one

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 8:57
related countries: Norway

One person is killed and one injured in a shooting in the car park of a school in northern Norway, police say.
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Under threat

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:08
related countries: Sri Lanka

Journalists in fear in Sri Lanka after spate of attacks
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Thai detainees 'sent back to sea'

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:16
related countries: Burma, Thailand

Thailand admits it has sent 126 Burmese asylum-seekers back out to sea, amid a scandal over its treatment of immigrants.
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Thailand defies UN over migrants

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:16
related countries: Burma, Thailand

Thailand admits it has sent scores more asylum-seekers back out to sea, having ignored a UN request for information.
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Rwanda arrests Congo rebel leader

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:39
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Gen Nkunda, leader of the main rebel group in DR Congo, is arrested in Rwanda after fleeing a joint operation against him.
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Fresh media attack in Sri Lanka

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:40
related countries: Sri Lanka
related places: Colombo

The editor of a Sri Lankan paper and his wife are assaulted in Colombo in the latest of a series of attacks on journalists.
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Slumdog makes its debut in India

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:44
related countries: India
related places: Mumbai

Slumdog Millionaire, the Mumbai-based movie nominated for 10 Oscars, finally opens in India to much debate.
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Brokerage to pay Lehman investors

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 9:52
related countries: Hong Kong

A Hong Kong brokerage is to buy back some of the Lehman Brothers investments it sold that may now be worthless.
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Karzai hails Guantanamo closure

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 10:48
related countries: Afghanistan, United States

Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomes the decision by new US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison.
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Satellite begins climate mission

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 10:53
related countries: Japan

A Japanese spacecraft begins its mission to help scientists understand and monitor how the Earth's climate is changing.
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Obama appoints key hotspot envoys

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 11:33
related countries: Afghanistan, Pakistan

President Obama names envoys to the Middle East and Pakistan and Afghanistan after ordering Guantanamo Bay to close.
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Israel defends use of phosphorus

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 11:59
related countries: Israel

An Israeli official insists that there is no evidence its use of white phosphorus shells in Gaza was illegal.
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Family targeted in Iraq attack

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 12:01
related countries: Iraq

Eight members of the same Sunni family have been killed in an attack on their home, police in Iraq say.
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Landless in Brazil

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 12:09
related countries: Brazil

Battle lines shift in struggle for agrarian reform
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UK in recession as economy slides

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 12:42
related countries: United Kingdom

The UK enters recession for the first time since the early 1990s, after the economy shrank by 1.5% in the last quarter of 2008.
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Federer eases past Safin in style

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 13:14
related countries: Aruba

Roger Federer hits top form to secure victory over fellow former champion Marat Safin in an entertaining Australian Open third round clash.
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Italy pressed by UN over migrants

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 13:40
related countries: Italy

The UN criticises Italy for the conditions in which it is holding nearly 2,000 migrants on one of its southern islands.
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Iceland announces early election

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 13:58
related countries: Iceland

Icelandic PM Geir Haarde calls an early general election, adding that he will not stand again because of a throat tumour.
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Green light for US stem cell work

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 14:10
related countries: United States

US regulators give the go-ahead for the world's first study on human embryonic stem cell therapy.
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Nigerians hand "car-thief-turned goat" over to police

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 14:17
related countries: Nigeria

A goat accused of being an armed robber who used witchcraft is in the custody of Nigerian police.
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Rocky start

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 15:15
related countries: Thailand

No honeymoon for new Thai PM in first month in power
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Obama's Kenyan choir signs deal

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 16:29
related countries: Kenya

An African youth choir is signed by Universal Music after performing at President Barack Obama's inauguration.
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Saudi warns US over Middle East

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 16:36
related countries: Israel, Saudi Arabia, United States
related places: `Arab

A senior member of Saudi Arabia's ruling family warns the US it needs to change attitudes over the Arab-Israeli conflict.
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Kenyan school strike 'to spread'

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 16:42
related countries: Kenya

A strike which has paralysed primary schools in Kenya will spread to secondary schools next week, a union official says.
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Infants stabbed at Belgian creche

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 17:40
related countries: Belgium

Two infants and an adult are killed and 10 other people wounded in a knife attack at a creche in north-west Belgium.
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Villa sign England striker Heskey

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 17:53
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Wigan

Aston Villa complete the signing of Emile Heskey for a fee of £3.5m from Wigan.
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N Korea's Kim meets China envoy

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 18:02
related countries: North Korea, China

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, rarely seen since a reported stroke last year, meets a visiting Chinese official.
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France's Dati to quit government

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 19:08
related countries: France

Justice Minister Rachida Dati, the first politician of North African origin to hold a top cabinet post in France, is to step down.
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Fidel contemplates his mortality

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 19:58
related countries: Cuba

Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro urges his country's leadership not to be disturbed by his illness or his eventual death.
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Drone attack kills eight in Pakistan

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 20:04
related countries: Pakistan, United States

Two suspected US-drone missile attacks kill at least 14 people in north-western Pakistan, local officials say.
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DR Congo seeks Nkunda extradition

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 21:26
related countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda

DR Congo seeks the extradition of rebel leader Laurent Nkunda after his capture by neighbouring Rwanda.
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UN 'shocked' by Gaza destruction

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 21:29
related countries: Israel

The UN's humanitarian chief says the scale of the destruction in Gaza wrought by Israel's assault on Hamas was "shocking".
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Belgian creche suspect questioned

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 22:39
related countries: Belgium

Belgian authorities question a 20-year-old suspect, in connection with the killing two toddlers and an adult at a nursery.
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Richards handed Windies call-up

Friday 23rd of January 2009, 23:53
related countries: Jamaica, United Kingdom

Batsman Dale Richards is the only newcomer in the West Indies squad for next month's opening test against England in Jamaica
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