One percent of the world's arms budget should be channelled into providing access to drinking water in the most parched corners of the planet, the campaigning widow of former French President Francois Mitterrand said. Danielle

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The BBC World Service is closing 10 local language radio services, mostly to eastern Europe, to pay for a new Arabic-language satellite television channel. The Arabic TV service will compete with the popular Arab TV

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Israel launched missile strikes in Gaza on Tuesday, targeting buildings it said were used by militants in response to renewed Palestinian rocket attacks on the Jewish state. The flare-up of violence - one of the

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President George W. Bush, bracing for the fallout when the US death toll in Iraq reaches 2,000, said on Tuesday the Iraq war will require more sacrifice and rejected critics calling for a US pullout.

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British MP George Galloway challenged the United States on Tuesday to charge him with perjury after he was accused of lying to a Senate committee over the UN oil-for-food programme in Iraq. Galloway, a strident

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If Iran develops nuclear weapons it could spark a regional arms race because Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt would consider getting atomic bombs, a leading think tank said on Tuesday. John Chapman, director of the

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President George W. Bush said military action was a last resort in dealing with Syria and he hoped Damascus would cooperate with a probe into the killing of former Lebanese premier Rafik al-Hariri. "A military

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Senegal resumed diplomatic ties with China on Tuesday after a 10-year break, a coup for Beijing as it seeks to diplomatically isolate Taiwan, the self-ruled island it claims as its own. "The government of Senegal

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Beijing, asserting its claim to self-ruled Taiwan, called for a national "revival" on Tuesday as it marked the 60th anniversary of the island reverting to Chinese rule, the first major commemoration of the event in

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Rosa Parks, the black seamstress whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man sparked a revolution in American race relations 50 years ago, died on Monday. Parks, 92, died in her

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