Italy deadlock after protest vote
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:22:43 GMT
Italy's centre-left narrowly wins the vote for the lower house of parliament but ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi's party says the election is "too close to call".
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Syria opposition U-turn on talks
Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:44:58 GMT
The Syrian opposition reverses its decision to boycott international talks in Rome, after the US and the UK promise to increase their support.
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Maize 'was key in Andean society'
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 03:57:34 GMT
New evidence strengthens the argument that maize played an important role in ancient Peruvian civilisation 5,000 years ago, a study suggests.
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Secrecy bid for Litvinenko inquest
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 04:07:08 GMT
The UK government is to ask a coroner to keep some information secret at the inquest into the 2006 death of Russian ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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Burma's Thein Sein heads to Europe
Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:42:00 GMT
Burma's President Thein Sein embarks on his first European tour, where he is expected to engage in high-level talks.
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