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War for water in Chile's desert

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 0:00
related countries: Chile Chile

How Chile's miners and vineyards fight over water rights
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Empty shops rate hits new record

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 0:05
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

The proportion of shops in Britain lying empty hit a new record, a further sign of a difficult start to the year for retailers.
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Soldiers loot after coup in Mali

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 0:18
related countries: Mali Mali

Renegade troops in Mali loot the presidential palace in the capital as the leaders of the coup call for calm and say all borders are closed.
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Asia's big three close in on deal

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 0:45
related countries: South Korea South Korea, Japan Japan

Japan, China and South Korea move closer to inking a trilateral investment agreement that may pave the way for a free-trade deal.
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Hong Kong's race at the top ignites democratic desires

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:11
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

Hong Kong's leadership race ignites desire for universal suffrage
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Eurovision spotlight on Azeri rights

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:17
related countries: Azerbaijan Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan's image concerns trump rights ahead of Eurovision
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Abortion clinics get spot-checks

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:27
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

Inspectors have been ordered into abortion clinics across England to carry out spot-checks on how they work.
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Young, Greek and unemployed

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:30
related countries: Greece Greece

The face of Greece's young unemployed majority
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Rival marches over Ecuador mining

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:39
related countries: Ecuador Ecuador

Indigenous people from Ecuador's Amazon region stage a march against mining plans, as government supporters hold their own rally in favour.
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World condemns army coup in Mali

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 1:59
related countries: Mali Mali

Mali's military coup against President Amadou Toumani Toure draws condemnation from African neighbours, as well as the UN and the World Bank.
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Living alone 'are more depressed'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 2:06
related countries: Finland Finland

Living alone can increase someone's risk of depression by up to 80% compared to living in families, says a Finnish study.
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US chipmaker Micron reports loss

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 2:25
related countries: United States United States

US chipmaker Micron sees a loss in its first earnings release since the firm's chief executive was killed in a plane crash.
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Australia breaks child porn ring

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 2:33
related countries: Aruba Aruba

Australian police say they have broken up a child pornography network, with the arrest of at least 13 men across the country.
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The Louvre is most visited venue

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 2:57
related countries: France France
related places: Paris

The Louvre in Paris was the most visited art museum last year, according to the Art Newspaper.
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Brazil microchips to curb truancy

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 3:33
related countries: Botswana Botswana

A Brazilian city has microchipped T-shirts worn by pupils in an effort to curb truancy and improve teacher-parent relations.
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VIDEO: Calls for democracy in Hong Kong

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 4:22
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

Accusations of infidelity and corruption during Hong Kong's leadership race have fuelled calls for democracy.
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HK mock poll 'under cyber attack'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 5:13
related countries: Hong Kong Hong Kong

The organisers of a mock poll for Hong Kong chief executive say their online system "is under cyber attack" to prevent voting.
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VIDEO: Europe's giant space freighter lifts off

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 5:54
related countries: France France, French Guiana French Guiana

Europe's giant space freighter, which is delivering supplies to the International Space Station, lifts off from French Guiana.
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Syrian divisions reflected closely in Lebanon

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 6:33
related countries: Syria Syria, Lebanon Lebanon

Syrian religious divisions reflected closely in Lebanon
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India swine flu outbreak kills 12

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 6:44
related countries: India India

An outbreak of swine flu across several Indian states has killed 12 people and infected dozens of others, the health ministry says.
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Cowell: "may the better show win"

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 7:04
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

Britain's Got Talent boss Simon Cowell is ready for the ratings battle with The Voice
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Europe's space freighter launches

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 7:36
related countries: France France, French Guiana French Guiana
related places: Kourou

Europe's ATV space freighter blasts off from Kourou in French Guiana on a mission to resupply the International Space Station.
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In-form Hamilton sets Sepang pace

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 8:03
related countries: Malaysia Malaysia, Bermuda Bermuda
related places: Sepang

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton is fastest in both practice sessions ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur.
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India PM pledges corruption bill

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 8:09
related countries: India India

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets leaders of political parties seeking a consensus on the stalled anti-corruption bill.
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VIDEO: Australia hit by flash flood deluge

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 8:18
related countries: Australia Australia
related places: Brisbane

Flash floods sweep through towns on the Sunshine Coast, north of Brisbane, Australia, causing damage to cars and property.
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India boycotts EU carbon charge

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 8:30
related countries: India India

Indian airlines will not comply with the European Union's (EU) carbon charging scheme, according to civil aviation minister Ajit Singh.
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Japan's AIJ sees offices searched

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 8:31
related countries: Japan Japan

Japanese investigators search the offices of AIJ, as the scandal-hit money manager also loses its operating license.
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Friday 23rd of March 2012, 9:53
related countries: Spain Spain

How the Spanish Civil War helped Britain break Hitler's codes
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Battles over Libya's dangerous migrant smuggling routes

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 9:54
related countries: Libya Libya

Will a desert wall of wrecked cars stop Libya's migrant trafficking?
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Japan prepares missile defences

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 10:12
related countries: North Korea North Korea, Japan Japan

Japan orders missile defence systems to be prepared in response to the planned launch of a North Korean long-range rocket next month.
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Pietersen wants cheats 'finished'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 10:14
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

England batsman Kevin Pietersen calls for anybody who gets caught being involved in match fixing to be "finished" in the game.
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Tribute to man killed in Nigeria

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 10:53
related countries: Nigeria Nigeria

The family of an engineer from Greater Manchester, kidnapped and killed in Nigeria, pay tribute to him ahead of his funeral.
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Egypt helps ease Gaza oil crisis

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 10:57
related countries: Egypt Egypt, Gaza Strip Gaza Strip

Egypt starts supplying fuel to the Gaza Strip today to help ease the territory's worst fuel crisis in years.
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China to end prison organ donors

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 11:28
related countries: China China

China pledges to end the widespread practice of taking organs from executed prisoners within the next five years, state media report.
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In pictures: Childhood tuberculosis in Lima

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 11:57
related countries: Peru Peru
related places: Lima

Fighting to stop tuberculosis in Peru
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Terror suspects escape Iraq jail

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 12:12
related countries: Iraq Iraq
related places: Kirkuk

At least 17 terror suspects, including al-Qaeda members, escape from a jail in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.
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Shell sued over Nigeria pollution

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 12:21
related countries: Nigeria Nigeria, United Kingdom United Kingdom
related places: London

Lawyers representing a Nigerian fishing community take oil firm Shell to court in London over alleged unpaid compensation for recent oil spills.
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Somalia ex-President Yusuf dies

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 13:18
related countries: United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates, Somalia Somalia

Somali ex-warlord Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed - the first president of the country's interim government - dies aged 77 in the United Arab Emirates.
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VIDEO: Sanctions imposed on Assad wife

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 13:49
related countries: Syria Syria, United Kingdom United Kingdom

EU foreign ministers impose a travel ban and asset freeze on Asma al-Assad, UK-born wife of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, and other family members.
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Chariots of Fire set for return

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 13:55
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire is to be digitally re-mastered and brought back to the big screen as part of the London 2012 Festival.
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Redknapp quashes Spurs slump talk

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 13:56
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom
related places: Tottenham

Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp denies his link to the England job has contributed to Spurs's downturn in form.
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VIDEO: Hundreds wrongly told of lottery win

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 14:04
related countries: Denmark Denmark

Three hundred people in Denmark were wrongly told they had won three billion euros in their country's national lottery.
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Burma puts off Kachin by-election

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 14:07
related countries: Burma Burma

Burma's authorities postpone 1 April by-elections in the northern state of Kachin, where fighting with ethnic rebels resumed last year.
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PM defends Toulouse murders probe

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 14:20
related countries: France France

French PM Francois Fillon says there were no grounds for arresting Islamist gunman Mohamed Merah before he shot dead seven people.
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Bomber 'kills five' in Pakistan

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 14:31
related countries: Pakistan Pakistan

At least five people are killed in a suicide bomb attack in a volatile tribal area of north-west Pakistan.
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Pope condemns Mexico's drug wars

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 14:43
related countries: Mexico Mexico

Pope Benedict XVI denounces the "evil" of drug-related violence in Mexico, as he embarks on his trip there.
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Indian waits 68 years for award

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 15:11
related countries: India India

Dinanath Malhotra, owner of the popular Indian publishing house Hind Pocket Books, receives his university award - six decades after winning it - because of partition.
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S Lanka minister in media threat

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 15:24
related countries: Sri Lanka Sri Lanka

A Sri Lankan cabinet minister threatens violence against journalists and human rights activists who he says have been opposing the government.
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Mali coup leader promises polls

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 16:06
related countries: Mali Mali

The leader of this week's coup in Mali, Capt Amadou Sanogo, tells the BBC he has no intention of staying in power, but the former leaders will face justice.
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VIDEO: Afghan farmers hope for a good spring

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 16:18
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan

Afghan farmers celebrate their annual festival every spring and show off their harvest from the previous season.
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Karachi kidnappings fund Taliban

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 16:23
related countries: Pakistan Pakistan
related places: Karachi

Abductions in Karachi are good business for Taliban
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Breivik spurs health law revision

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 17:30
related countries: Norway Norway

Norway plans new mental health laws to cater for mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's detention, as his trial looms.
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Mozart piece uncovered in Austria

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 17:39
related countries: Austria Austria

A previously unknown piano composition by Mozart, believed to have been written when he was as young as 10, is uncovered in Austria.
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EU slaps sanctions on Assad wife

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 17:40
related countries: Syria Syria, United Kingdom United Kingdom

The EU imposes a travel ban and an asset freeze on Asma al-Assad, the British-born wife of Syrian leader Bashar, and other family members.
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VIDEO: Japan readies missile defences

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:14
related countries: North Korea North Korea, Japan Japan

Japan has ordered missile defence systems to be prepared in response to the planned launch of a North Korean long-range rocket next month, Japanese Defence Minister Naoki Tanaka has said.
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Minimum price for alcohol planned

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:15
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

The government proposes a minimum price of about 40p per unit of alcohol in England and Wales - but is warned it could face a legal challenge.
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VIDEO: Australia breaks child porn ring

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:17
related countries: Aruba Aruba

Australian police say they have broken up a child pornography network with the arrest of at least 13 men nationwide.
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Obama's sorrow for shot teenager

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:28
related countries: United States United States

President Obama says the "tragedy" of a black teenager killed by a neighbourhood watchman in Florida should prompt national soul-searching.
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EU approves pirate base attacks

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:32
related countries: Somalia Somalia

The European Union expands its mission against Somali pirates, by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.
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Bales charged with Afghan murders

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 18:57
related countries: Afghanistan Afghanistan, United States United States

Robert Bales, the US soldier suspected of killing Afghan civilians, has been charged with 17 counts of premeditated murder, the US Army says.
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Borat tune stuns Kazakh medallist

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 19:25
related countries: Kuwait Kuwait

A Kazakh shooting gold medallist is stunned as the comedy national anthem from the film Borat is played for her victory in Kuwait instead of the real one.
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Millar suffers broken collarbone

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 19:40
related countries: Belgium Belgium, United Kingdom United Kingdom

British cyclist David Millar fractures his right collarbone in a crash while competing in Belgium.
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Brazil police hunt 'blonde gang'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 19:44
related countries: Botswana Botswana

Brazilian police say they are hunting a gang of blonde young women blamed for a string of kidnaps and robberies.
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VIDEO: EU sanctions on Assad's wife

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 19:49
related countries: Syria Syria

The EU has imposed travel sanctions and frozen the assets of President Assad's wife, his mother and his sister. Asma al-Assad is among 12 people added to the Syria sanctions list, which already includes her husband, as Jonny Dymond reports.
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EMI in Europe competition probe

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 20:17
related countries: United Kingdom United Kingdom

The European Commission launches a probe into whether the sale of UK music firm EMI - home to the Beatles, Pink Floyd and Coldplay - breaks competition rules.
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Guinea-Bissau run-off boycotted

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 20:33
related countries: Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau, Guinea Guinea

One of the two candidates in a run-off vote for the Guinea-Bissau presidency pulls out, claiming the first round was unfair.
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Russian ex-banker shot in London

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 20:46
related countries: Russia Russia, Germany Germany, United Kingdom United Kingdom
related places: London

Former Russian banker German Gorbuntsov is in a critical condition after being shot several times by a man armed with a sub-machine gun in east London.
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French teacher 'in Merah tribute'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 21:13
related countries: France France

A teacher in France is suspended over claims she asked pupils to hold a minute's silence for gunman Mohamed Merah, reports say.
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VIDEO: Obama says teenager's death a 'tragedy'

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 21:20
related countries: United States United States
related places: Florida

US President Barack Obama has said the "tragedy" of an unarmed black teenager shot dead in Florida should prompt some national soul-searching.
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Murray eases past Falla in Miami

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 21:38
related countries: Colombia Colombia
related places: Miami

Great Britain's Andy Murray beats Colombian Alejandro Falla to book a spot in the third round of the Miami Masters.
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Woods storms into lead in Florida

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 22:53
related countries: United States United States
related places: Florida

Tiger Woods hits a 65 to share the lead at the Arnold Palmer Invitational in Florida, with Graeme McDowell one shot back.
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Surprise US World Bank candidate

Friday 23rd of March 2012, 23:27
related countries: United States United States

President Obama nominates Korean-born US academic Jim Yong Kim as his surprise choice to head the World Bank, as two other candidates are named.
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