In an emotional speech at the White House, President Obama has detailed his plans to tighten gun controls. He introduced the new measures including background checks by executive order sidestepping congressional opposition. Jon Sopel reports. His nic
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Voters in the Central African Republic are finally due to cast their ballots today in presidential and parliamentary elections. Thirty candidates are vying to become president to replace the current interim leader. Tomi Oladipo has this report. The e
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The pro-independence movements in the Spanish region of Catalonia is in disarray after it failed to choose a leader. Delegates from the leftist party in the alliance of the CUP splits over whether to support a pro-independence administration led by t
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The Iraqi military says it now has control of a complex of government buildings that's been the center of battle for the city of Ramadi. IS fighters appeared to have withdrawn from the compound although troops are still confronting pockets of resista
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Ukraine's parliament has approved a budget for 2016 after a warning from the prime minister Arseny Yatsenyk that failure to do so would plunge the nation to an economic catastrophe. Approving the budget was a key condition to secure the next tranche
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There has been a large explosion at an industrial gas plant in southern Nigeria. Media reports say dozens of people have been burnt to death with some reports putting the number of dead at 100. Abdullahi Kaura Abubakar reports from Abuja. It's not cl
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The president of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has told the BBC that his military is close to defeating the Islamist group Boko Haram. Mr Buhari said the militants could no longer mount conventional attacks against government forces or centers of popula
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France says it turned away nearly 3.5 thousand people from its borders since a state of the emergency with introduced after last month attacks in Paris. The French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said they were refused entry because they posed a
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The traditional two-party system of Spanish politics has been shaken up by the success of two new movements in the country's general elections. With nearly all votes counted, the governing Popular Party is forecast to lose its parliamentary majority
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European leaders meeting in Brussels say they are willing to compromise to try to keep Britain in the union, but they stress that any deal mustn't break core EU principles. At the summit, the British Prime Minister expressed hard his demands for cont
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Finance ministers from the 15 permanent and non-permanent members of the UN Security Council have unanimously adopted a resolution aimed at cutting funds for the so called Islamic State group. The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said the world neede
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The US treasury has told the BBC that it considers the Russian president Vladimir Putin to be corrupt. The American government has already imposed sanctions on Mr Putin's aids, but it's thought to be the first time it's directly accused him of corrup
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A donor conference for Syria, at which $9 billion of aid is being sought, opens in London today one day after UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the Syrian civil war broke down. Britain has announced it would provide $1.75 billion to be spent in Syri
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Syrias President Bashar al-Assad has cast doubt on whether a ceasefire proposed for later this week can be implemented. The cessation of hostility was agreed by world Paris in a security meeting in Munich last week. But President al-Assad said the ce
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President Obama has rejected calls by Republican members of the Senate to leave their nomination of a new supreme court judge to his successor. Mr. Obama said he would name a candidate to replace justice Antonia Scalia, who died on Saturday, and the
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A donor conference for Syria, at which $9 billion of aid is being sought, opensin London today one day after UN-sponsored talks aimed at ending the Syriancivil war broke down. Britain has announced it would provide $1.75 billion to be spent in Syria
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Football's world governing body, FIFA, will elect a new president on Friday. It will also vote on a package of reforms intended to bring to an end the corruption that contributed to the downfall of the former President, Sepp Blatter. More than 200 de
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The EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says the 10 billion dollars pledged at a London conference to help victims of the Syrian conflict is no real answer to Syria's troubles.Without a political solution, she said the donors would have to com
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The BBC has learned that the sportswear manufacturer Adidas plans to end its multi-million-dollar sponsorship deal with athletics world governing body in the wake of a doping scandal. Our sports editor Dan Roan has more. Last year,the World Anti-dopi
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The French Prime Minister has warned that Europeansociety could be totally destabilized if it tried to takein every refugee who arrived on the continent. In aBBC interview, Manuel Valls said the migrationcrisis was putting the entire future of the Eu
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