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http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - 11/21/09 04:05:36 - 12/30/06 04:07:11
15:08 GMT, Thursday, 5 November 2009
The UN says it is to temporarily move 600 of its foreign staff in Afghanistan, after last week's deadly Taliban hostel raid.
The UN's war crimes court appoints a lawyer for ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and adjourns his trial till March. Opel workers in Germany are on strike in protest at parent firm GM's decision not to sell its European operations.
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The defence secretary leads tributes to five "men of courage" killed in Helmand province by an Afghan policeman. The Bank of England is to pump an extra £25bn into the economy but has kept interest rates unchanged at 0.5%.
Leader's jailbreak may reinvigorate Colombian rebels Can you eat fish and still be a vegetarian? Obama's days of walking on water are over