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Thail PM rejects resignation demand
Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has rejected protesters' demands that she step down, amid fresh clashes in Bangkok.
Ms Yingluck said the demands were not possible under the constitution, but that she remained open to talks.
More clashes broke out on Monday as protesters tried to storm the prime minister's office, Government House.
Four people have died in Thailand's worst political turmoil since the 2010 rallies that ended in violence.
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Ukraine protesters blockade government sites
Demonstrators are blockading government buildings in the Ukrainian capital Kiev, as they step up their campaign for the resignation of the government.
Protesters have put up barricades on Independence Square, while others are entrenched inside city hall.
The unrest was triggered in November by President Viktor Yanukovych's refusal to sign a deal on closer EU ties.
Opposition leaders have renewed demands that he stand down, and urged him to "stop political repression".
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Tahrir Square clashes as constitution changes agreed
Police have fired tear gas to disperse supporters of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi from Tahrir Square in the capital, Cairo.
The clashes came as a panel amending the constitution adopted during his time in office agreed on text changes.
The revised charter preserves the military's wide-ranging powers - including the ability to try civilians in certain cases.
It will be put to a referendum which is expected to be held in January.
The 50-member panel completed a final draft after two days spent revising the charter adopted under former President Morsi.
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Lebanon city of Tripoli hit by deadly clashes
At least 10 people have died in north Lebanon in two days of gun battles between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Clashes in the port city of Tripoli also left 49 people wounded including 11 soldiers, a security source said.
Tripoli, with a small Alawite community surrounded by a Sunni majority, is seen as one of Lebanon's most volatile sectarian fault-lines.
President Assad is an Alawite and is fighting a Sunni-led revolt.
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Loughboroug Teenager faces retrial over bomb plot
A teenage boy accused of planning a "Columbine-style" attack on his former school is to face a retrial.
A jury at the Old Bailey was discharged after failing to reach verdicts on two charges under the Terrorism Act.
The 17-year-old from Loughborough in Leicestershire said the alleged attack plans, written in a notebook, were a fantasy to help him cope with bullying.
The teenager, who cannot be named, was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome after being arrested in February.
Recorder of London Judge Brian Barker QC discharged the jury of six men and six women following six days of deliberation.
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Iran delivers nuclear warning
Iran's Supreme Leader has warned his country will not step back "one iota" from its nuclear rights, as it resumes talks with world powers in Geneva.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said he would not intervene directly in the negotiations, but that he had set "red lines" for Iran's representatives.
President Barack Obama meanwhile urged US senators not to impose new sanctions on Iran to allow time for diplomacy.
He was unsure if it would be possible to reach an interim agreement soon.
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White supremacist serial killer Joseph Franklin executed
A US white supremacist who targeted black and Jewish people in a nationwide killing spree has been put to death in the US state of Missouri.
Joseph Franklin was executed for shooting dead a man outside a synagogue in the city of St Louis in 1977.
The 63-year-old was convicted of seven other racially motivated murders. He claimed to have committed 20 in total.
His execution came after the US Supreme Court upheld an appeal court's decision to lift a stay of execution.
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UK reviewing Gibraltar navy options following incident
Britain is reviewing its navy options in Gibraltar after an illegal incursion into its territorial waters on Monday, a Foreign Office minister has said.
Mark Simmonds told the Commons a Spanish state vessel, the RV Romon Margalef, was accompanied across the border by three Guardia Civil boats.
The vessel failed to leave Gibraltan waters for 22 hours despite requests, and was challenged by the Royal Navy.
Spain's ambassador to the UK was called to the Foreign Office to explain.
Mr Simmonds said the Spanish vessel had come within 250 metres of the entrance to Gibraltar Harbour.
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DR Congo officers in rape and war crimes trial
Thirty-nine government soldiers accused of war crimes have gone on trial in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Most of the charges relate to the mass rape and other acts of sexual violence against more than 130 women and girls in November 2012 by a retreating army.
Correspondents say the military trial comes after months of international pressure after some officers were suspended but no soldiers tried.
The UN then threatened to stop funding army units suspected of abuses.
Armed groups in eastern DR Congo often use rape as a weapon of war.
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DR Congo is Cursed by its natural wealth
The Democratic Republic of Congo is potentially one of the richest countries on earth, but colonialism, slavery and corruption have turned it into one of the poorest, writes historian Dan Snow.
The world's bloodiest conflict since World War II is still rumbling on today.
It is a war in which more than five million people have died, millions more have been driven to the brink by starvation and disease and several million women and girls have been raped.
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