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William Hague and Angelina Jolie visit Kigali Memorial to honour victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide
26 Mar 13 - UK Foreign Secretary William Hague and UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie this morning visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Rwanda’s capital to honour the memory of all those murdered in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
The Memorial was established in 2004 by the UK-based Aegis Trust for genocide prevention, working in partnership with survivors and the Rwandan authorities. Today it plays a key role in peace-building education, bringing together children of survivors and perpetrators to help strengthen community stability and resilience against the potential for violence in the future. Th…
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Boris Berezovsky died by hanging, police say
A post-mortem examination has found Russian tycoon Boris Berezovsky's death was "consistent with hanging", police have said.
Mr Berezovsky, 67, was found dead by an employee on Saturday on a bathroom floor at his home in Berkshire.
The examination found nothing to indicate a violent struggle. More tests are to be carried out on the body.
Thames Valley Police said investigations at the property would continue for several days.
They had earlier said there was no evidence so far that a "third party" was involved.
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Bristow Group to take over UK search and rescue from RAF
A private company will take over the UK's helicopter search and rescue operations, the Department for Transport has announced.
The Bristow Group has won a 10-year contract to run the service from 2015.
The £1.6bn deal ends 70 years of search and rescue from the RAF and Royal Navy.
Bristow will replace ageing RAF and Royal Navy Sea King helicopters with modern Sikorsky S-92s and AgustaWestland 189s.
Under the new contract, 22 helicopters will operate from 10 locations around the UK.
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Yahoo spends millions on UK teen Nick D'Aloisio's Summly app
An app created by a UK teenager has been acquired by web giant Yahoo in a deal the BBC understands to be worth "dozens of millions" of pounds.
Seventeen-year-old Nick D'Aloisio's Summly app summarises news stories from popular media companies.
Neither company would disclose the terms of the deal publicly.
The app itself will now close, but its features will be used in mobile products at Yahoo, where Mr D'Aloisio has been given a job.
He will be joined by several of Summly's "top staff" in new roles at Yahoo in the next few weeks.
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DR Congo Bosco Ntaganda appears before ICC
Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda has appeared before the International Criminal Court at The Hague for the first time, following his surprise surrender last week.
Gen Ntaganda, a key figure in the conflict in eastern DR Congo, denies war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He said he pleaded not guilty, before the judge interrupted him and said he should not enter a plea at this stage.
He faces 10 counts, including rape, murder and using child soldiers.
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North Korea Combat Posture To Hit US
North Korea says it has ordered artillery and rocket units into "combat posture" to prepare to target US bases in Hawaii, Guam and the US mainland.
The announcement, carried by KCNA news agency, follows days of strong rhetoric from Pyongyang.
The Pentagon condemned the threats, saying the US was ready to respond to "any contingency".
South Korea on Tuesday marked the third anniversary of the sinking of the Cheonan ship, in which 46 sailors died.
It said there was no unusual activity in the North.
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Thatcher papers reveal Tory party split over Falklands
Senior Tories were initially sceptical about going to war over the Falklands, newly released papers from Margaret Thatcher's personal archive show.
A note from the whips' office following Argentina's 1982 invasion reported solid support for military action from some Tory MPs, but others were privately hostile.
The papers have been released in Cambridge by margaretthatcher.org.
They show for the first time how deeply split the party was over the Falklands.
One Tory MP is quoted by the Whips as having said "we're making a big mistake, it'll make Suez look like common sense".
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Cyprus crisis: Coming hours 'to decide' fate
The coming hours will decide Cyprus' fate as it struggles to meet the terms of an international financial bailout, a government spokesman has said.
"Any solution involves pain," Christos Stylianides said in the capital Nicosia, without giving details.
Parliament will debate plans to raise the 5.8bn euros (£4.9bn; $7.5bn) needed to qualify for the 10bn-euro bailout, having rejected an earlier deal.
Without it, the cash supply to the euro member's struggling banks may be cut.
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Bosco Ntaganda: Kagame promises to help transfer to ICC
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has given his backing for the speedy transfer of Congolese war crimes suspect Bosco Ntaganda to the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Known as "The Terminator", he surrendered to the US embassy in Kigali on Monday.
Rwanda would help facilitate his transfer to The Hague "as fast as possible", Mr Kagame said.
Gen Ntaganda has been a key figure in the conflict in eastern DR Congo.
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Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman dies after illness
The president of Bangladesh, Zillur Rahman, has died after a long illness, a spokesman for the prime minister's office in Dhaka has announced.
The president, 84, had been undergoing treatment at a hospital in Singapore.
President Rahman was elected by parliament to the largely ceremonial role in February 2009.
Mr Rahman was a stalwart of the Awami League - now in power in Bangladesh - and a close friend of the country's first president, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.
Sheikh Mujib was the father of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.
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