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Mixed results in Spain elections

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 0:13
related countries: Spain

Nationalists fall short of a majority in Spain's Basque Country regional poll, while the Socialists lose in Galicia.
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Audio slideshow

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 0:33
related countries: India

The 12th Century Indian fort still home to 5,000
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In pictures

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 0:40
related countries: United States

Chronicling life and death on the US-Mexico border
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Bangladesh 'takes back' Rohingyas

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 5:52
related countries: India, Thailand

Bangladesh takes back 49 boatpeople allegedly returned to the sea by Thai authorities and rescued by Indian coastguards.
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Pro-Kremlin party leads in polls

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 6:13
related countries: Russia

The governing United Russia party leads in all regional polls held across Russia on Sunday, electoral officials say.
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Islamic banks 'better in crisis'

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 6:42
related countries: Indonesia

Indonesia's president says Islamic finance has advantages over other systems, as the World Islamic Economic Forum opens.
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Picture purple

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 7:12
related countries: Uruguay

Uruguay turns to art to promote its amethyst industry
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Mass whale stranding in Tasmania

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 7:13
related countries: Australia

Rescuers race to save dozens of pilot whales and dolphins beached on King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
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Sri Lanka in new truce rejection

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 8:12
related countries: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's foreign minister tells the BBC that a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels would only allow them to regroup.
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Thaksin cancels speech from exile

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 9:05
related countries: Thailand, Hong Kong

Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra cancels a speech in Hong Kong, amid pressure from Thailand for his extradition.
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US ready to aid Mexico drug fight

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 10:14
related countries: United States, Mexico
related places: Washington

Washington could offer more military help to Mexico to battle violent drug-smuggling cartels, the US defence secretary says.
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Designer baby row over US clinic

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 10:17
related countries: United States
related places: Los Angeles

A Los Angeles clinic courts controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye, skin and hair colour of their offspring.
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Guerrilla danger

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 10:33
related countries: Colombia

Colombia's Farc rebels: fading force or still a threat?
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Bangladesh hunt for mutineers

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 10:40
related countries: Bangladesh
related places: Dhaka

The Bangladesh army launches a manhunt for border guards who mutinied in Dhaka last week, killing about 140 army officers.
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Opel in talks over government aid

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 10:56
related countries: Germany

German carmaker Opel is in talks with the country's economy minister about a cash injection from the government.
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North Korea holds rare UN talks

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 11:00
related countries: South Korea, North Korea, United States

North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command in South Korea hold their first talks in almost seven years.
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Sydney race film back at cinemas

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 11:33
related countries: Aruba

An Australian cinema chain is to resume screenings of a film about race riots pulled after a violent reaction from audiences.
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West 'uses Tibet to attack China'

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 12:27
related countries: China

China publishes a white paper praising its rule in Tibet and accusing the West of trying to inflame tensions there.
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'I saw attack'

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:16
related countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea

Eyewitness account of Guinea-Bissau leader's killing
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Japanese car sales fall sharply

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:20
related countries: Japan

Sales of new vehicles in Japan in February fall by almost a third, new figures reveal.
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Live text - West Indies v England

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:31
related countries: United Kingdom

Alastair Cook hits his eighth Test century as England reach 233-2, a 84-run lead, at tea on day five of the fourth Test in Barbados.
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Israel 'plans big settlement growth'

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:46
related countries: Israel, West Bank

The Israeli government has plans for 73,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement group says.
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Dates announced for India polls

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:52
related countries: India

India's parliamentary elections will run from 16 April to 13 May, the country's Election Commission announces.
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US nuclear relic found in bottle

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 13:54
related countries: United States

A bottle discarded at a waste site in the north-western US contains the world's oldest sample of bomb- grade plutonium, scientists say.
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Tanzanians to name albino killers

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 14:18
related countries: Tanzania

Tanzania launches a nationwide exercise inviting the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism.
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Johnson inspires Australia to win

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 14:19
related countries: South Africa, Australia

Mitchell Johnson leads a fine performance by Australia's seam attack as the tourists secure a 162-run win over South Africa in the first Test.
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Leader begins key visit to Swat

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 14:20
related countries: Pakistan
related places: Swat

The chief minister of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province makes his first visit to Swat since a key peace deal with militants.
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Italian MPs withhold fingerprints, for fear of having to vote

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 14:47
related countries: Italy

Italian MPs are offered coffee breaks in a bid to persuade them to use a new electronic fingerprint voting system.
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Snow brings havoc to eastern US

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 15:15
related countries: United States

Heavy snow sweeps the eastern coast of the United States, closing schools and disrupting flights and roads.
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China relics buyer refuses to pay

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 15:22
related countries: France, China
related places: Paris

A Chinese man who won two looted bronze sculptures at a Paris auction refuses to pay - as an "act of patriotism".
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New death ruling for Chemical Ali

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 16:02
related countries: Iraq
related places: `Ali

Iraqi former official Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, is given his third death sentence by an Iraqi court.
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Rwandan MP convicted of genocide

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 17:04
related countries: Rwanda

A female Rwandan MP and member of the Tutsi-led governing party is sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide.
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Billions pledged to rebuild Gaza

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 17:20
related countries: Egypt

International donors pledge $4.5bn in aid to the Palestinians, chiefly to rebuild Gaza, after Israel's recent offensive.
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Pope rescinds priest's promotion

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 17:47
related countries: Austria

Pope Benedict formally rescinds the promotion of an Austrian conservative priest whose appointment led to protests.
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New Zealand v India live score

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:12
related countries: India, New Zealand
related places: Napier

New Zealand take on India in the first one-day international in Napier.
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German charged over ski death

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:14
related countries: Austria, Germany

A German state governor is charged with manslaughter over a collision on an Austrian ski slope in which a woman died.
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AIG reports record $61.7bn loss

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:21
related countries: United States

Insurance giant AIG reports the largest quarterly loss in corporate history as global stock markets tumble.
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Guinea-Bissau president shot dead

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:30
related countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea

The president of Guinea-Bissau is shot dead by soldiers, officials say - an apparent revenge attack for the killing of the army chief.
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Thousands mourn officers in Dhaka

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:34
related countries: Bangladesh
related places: Dhaka

Thousands of mourners attend a state funeral in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, for army officers killed in last week's mutiny.
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CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:43
related countries: United States

The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of interviews with terror suspects, a US government lawyer admits.
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More women die in fires in India

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 18:56
related countries: India

Young women in India are more than three times as likely to die in a fire as young men, a study published in the Lancet says.
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Cook ton helps England earn draw

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 19:57
related countries: Barbados, United Kingdom

Alastair Cook makes his eighth Test century as England bat out day five to draw the fourth Test against West Indies in Barbados.
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Haunting crisis

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 21:06
related countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea
related places: Bissau

Guinea-Bissau - one of most unstable states
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Economy worries hit Europe's shares

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 21:29
related countries: United Kingdom
related places: Stock

European stock markets are among those to make big falls amid fears of a further turn for the worse in the global economy.
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G-Bissau army 'not seeking power'

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 22:40
related countries: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea

The army in Guinea-Bissau vows to respect a constitutional handover, following the assassination of the president.
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Bangladesh cuts mutiny death toll

Monday 2nd of March 2009, 22:48
related countries: Bangladesh

Bangladeshi officials say 74 people died in last week's border guard mutiny, halving the death toll originally given.
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