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- BMW announces the international recall of hundreds of thousands of luxury cars. (BBC)
- American Bob Dudley succeeds Tony Hayward as the new CEO of BP after the recent controversies over the Oil Spill crisis in the Deepwater Horizon. (AP via Google News)
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- Kenyan authorities announce that more than 1,000 teachers have been fired for sexually abusing girls over a 2-year period. (BBC)
- Right-wing Israeli politicians push for a controversial change to the wording of the oath required to become an Israeli citizen, amending the wording so that potential citizens must promise to respect Israel as a "Jewish and democratic state". (BBC)
- China issues new regulations requiring the managers of mines to accompany workers down the shafts. (BBC) (RTHK)
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- Eight ISAF NATO soldiers are killed in multiple attacks in Afghanistan, including four in roadside bombings. (AP)
- Six people, including an Iraqi Interior Ministry official and four members of a leading political bloc, die in multiple explosions throughout Baghdad apparently targeting members of former prime Minister Ayad Allawi's al-Iraqiya political coalition; four were killed in a roadside bomb and three others were wounded. (CNN)
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- A Rwandan opposition party, the United Democratic Forces, says that their, leader Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, arrested last week, is being held in "intolerable and immoral" conditions without food or water. (AFP)
- Former Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi accuses Iran of working to destabilize the Middle East, claiming that the region is falling victim to terrorist groups backed financially by Iran. (CNN) (AFP)
- Iranian police have arrested seven Afghan border guards who had illegally crossed the border, border police chief Hossein Zolfaqari announced. (Tehran Times) (Mehr News)
- Tens of thousands of people rally in Rome against a weakening of labour rights being carried out by the country's government; rumours spread by politicians of clashes caused by "anarchist infiltration" prove unfounded. (Bangkok Post) (SwissInfo)
- The U.K. government urges councils to stop giving charity tax breaks to Scientology, an organization described as a cult by a high court judge. (Guardian)
- Olive Lembe di Sita, the First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, leads a march of thousands of women against sexual violence in the town of Bukavu in the east of the country where hundreds of women have been raped. (BBC)
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- The U.S. government has concluded that Chinese companies are bypassing UN sanctions on Iran and helping Iran to improve its missile technology and develop nuclear weapons, and has asked China to stop such activity. (The Washington Post)
- Rwandan opposition parties appeal to the United States and the UN Security Council to intervene on behalf of the opposition FDU party leader, Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza, arrested last week, and other political prisoners. (AFP) (VOA)
- Fears mount that the Ugandan rebel group, the Lord's Resistance Army, which has ties to the Sudanese government, is poised to destabilize South Sudan as it prepares for a referendum on independence. (VOA)
- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki visits Iran, where he is told to "get rid of America". (Telegraph) (CNN)
- The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), a major United Nations gathering, meets in Japan to work out why governments have failed to stop the rapid rate of extinction and loss of habitats by 2010, as they vowed 8 years ago. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The Prime Minister of Japan Naoto Kan voices concerns about rowdy anti-Japanese protests in China, sparked by a recent territorial dispute. (AFP via Yahoo! News) (Japan Today)
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- The Brazil hydroelectric plant in Foz do Iguacu is second largest hydroelectric plant in world after the Three Gorges in China. (Xinhua)
- Microsoft Research and Wikipedia have joined forces to launch a beta version of a new multilingual content creation tool for Wikipedia named WikiBhasha. (The Independent) (Softpedia)
- Shanghai-Hangzhou High-Speed Railway makes trial operation. (China)
- An analysis of data detected by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of the LCROSS impact last October finds the presence of carbon monoxide in Cabeus Crater in higher concentrations than the approximately 155 kg of water ice and water vapour, more than initially estimated, in addition to two hydroxyl flavours and smaller quantities of hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, methane, formaldehyde, mercury, magnesium, calcium, sodium, hydrogen gas, and possibly ammonia, ethylene and silver. (Universe Today) (New York Times) (The Register)
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- Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon warns that North Korea is headed for a "chronic" food crisis with droughts and floods in various parts of the country. (AFP via Yahoo! News)
- Typhoon Megi kills 7 people and leaves 23 missing after triggering landslides in Taiwan. (Focus Taiwan) (AFP via Google News)
- Cyclone Giri, which rapidly intensified with winds of 144mph, makes landfall in western Burma. (CNN) (The Irrawaddy)
- Forest fires in Sumatra, Indonesia, cause a thick haze to drift over Singapore. (BBC) (Straits Times)
- A cargo ship collides with a small ferryboat at Nieuwer ter Aa, Utrecht, capsizing the ferryboat. (BBC)
- HMS Astute runs aground off the Isle of Skye. (BBC)
- A car crash in Austria leads to the death of Christian Kandlbauer, thought to be the first man to drive using a mind-controlled robotic arm. (BBC) (Ap via The Guardian) (USA Today)
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- David Cameron bans Sayeeda Warsi, Baroness Warsi, Britain's first female Muslim cabinet minister, from attending Global Peace and Unity, Europe's largest multicultural gathering. Nick Clegg takes the side of Baroness Warsi. (The Observer)
- Ghana-born doctor Peter Bossman becomes Mayor of Piran (Slovenia), the first black mayor of a town in the so-called former Eastern Bloc of Europe. (BBC) (The Guardian)
- The Supreme Court of Iraq orders the country's parliament back to work, ruling that the self-declared absence of politicians is unconstitutional. (BBC) (Xinhua)
- Bahrain's elections officials say voter turnout was 67 per cent in the parliamentary election. The main Shia opposition group, Al Wefaq, kept its 18 seats in the 40-member legislature. (AP) (Tehran Times)
- Former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is reported to be a "lot brighter" following her hospitalisation with the influenza that disrupted her 85th birthday reception. (Press Association)
- Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé, the two candidates in the second round of the Guinean presidential election, call for calm after the election is delayed. (BBC)
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- The European football rulemaking body has called for proof to substantiate corruption allegations leveled against the Euro 2012 bidding process. (BBC Sports)
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- Somali group Al-Shabaab publicly executes two teenage girls, claiming they were spies. (AFP)
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- The memoir of George W. Bush reveals his initial belief that he had United Airlines Flight 93 shot down during the September 11 attacks in 2001. (The Guardian)
- Israeli soldiers fire tear gas and sound grenades to shut down rallies across the West Bank held to protest an annexation of land by Israel. The events are attended by Norwegian politicians Torunn Kanutte Husvik and Stine Renate Håheim. (Ma'an News Agency)
- Israeli crossings authorities shut Gaza for the weekend. (Ma'an News Agency)
- A suicide bomber wearing an explosives belt kills at least 21 people, mostly Shiites, in Balad Ruz, the town north of Baghdad. (AP) (Xinhua)
- At least one Islamist militant from the banned Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan is killed in an operation in Tajikistan. (Interfax)
- 20 militants are killed and six others wounded as helicopter gunships pound militant hideouts in Khadizai, Shahu Wam, Kasha and Saifal Dara areas of Orakzai tribal region of Pakistan. (Dawn)
- At least nine Mexican police officers in the state of Jalisco are shot dead during an ambush with drug cartels, continuing a recent wave of violence connected to the Mexican Drug War. (BBC News)
- Saboteurs attack an oil pipeline in Nigeria's Niger Delta, shutting in 4,000 barrels a day of crude oil production. (Reuters) (AFP)
- Al-Shabaab militants take control of a town on the border between Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya from pro-government forces, following fighting that displaced 60,000 people. (AHN)
- Russian and American forces conduct their first joint anti-narcotics operation in Afghanistan. (RIA Novosti) (Reuters) (The Hindu)
- North Korea fires two shots at South Korean military units across the border at Kwacheon, South Korea. (BBC) (MSNBC) (Xinhua) (Yonhap)
- NATO is expected to reduce its peacekeeping force in Kosovo by half, citing improved security situation. (BBC News)
- The death toll from the suicide bombing of a cafe in the Diyala Governorate near Baghdad, Iraq reaches 22. (Reuters)
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- A British man is sentenced to 18 weeks in prison for posting malicious and abusive messages on Facebook memorial sites, including the page for deceased reality TV star Jade Goody. (BBC News)
- An American judge has ruled that a six-year-old may be sued for negligence after crashing into an elderly woman while riding a bicycle at age four.(BBC)
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