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24/10/2013
Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.
Merkel unimpressed by Obama's reassurance over phone-bugging
Merkel unmoved by US spying assurance; Football match prayers; Sculptor Anthony Caro dies
Norway rejects chemical weapons refusal
US asked Norway to help destroy Syrian chemical weapons; EU anti-bugging plan; #100women
Norway chemical weapons refusal
Roma girl's DNA match
Roma girl parents traced; Lorenzo's Oil creator dies; artwork that can suck up pollution
Iran border deaths
Iran Sunni group claims border attack; Chinese journalist 'confession'; Becksistentialism
Anger in Germany
Claims that US tapped German Chancellor’s phone ‘for years’, Saudi women driving
Tension in Bangladesh
Several dead in Bangladesh clashes; Explosions in Iraq; Kenya Westgate aftermath.
Lou Reed dies
Velvet Underground's frontman dies at 71, Iraq rocked by car bombs, Georgia votes
28/10/2013 13:06 GMT
Latest NSA revelations on US actions in Spain, Japan.
US spied on Spain, but blocked by Japan; Russian politics; G4S 'abused S.A. prisoners'.
Rape petition demands answers from Kenyan police
Kenya anti-rape petition tops 1m; MEPs in US over spying; Nigeria's first major musical
Civilians trapped in Syria
Lyse Doucet reports from a besieged suburb of Damascus; Turkey's iron silk road.
29/10/2013 (2100 GMT)
US ambassador Robert Ford on Syria deputy PM dismissal; bitcoin ATM; R Kelly or R Jelly?
30/10/2013
30/10/2013 (2100 GMT)
China detains five for Tiananmen crash; Georgian president; girl who talks to elephants
Syria's chemical weapons
Syria’s chemical capability degraded; India’s mega statue; Hollywood Hallowe’en
31/10/2013
Insight into deadly trek across the Sahara
Agadez from where African migrants set off across the Sahara; Google Glass fine; Syria
01/11/2013 13:06 GMT
What's behind the ongoing violence in Iraq?
We look at the state of Iraq as the Prime Minister travels to Washington
Leader of Pakistani Taliban "killed"
Pakistan Taliban leader "dead"; mosquito music; soldier reunites with Afghan life-saver
Pakistan reacts to Hakimullah Mehsud killing
Pakistan strike reaction; IACHR compensates Chilean; should casting directors get Oscars?
French journalists killed in Mali
French journalist on murdered colleagues; Pakistan accuses US; Pussy Riot concerns
Bangladesh war crimes convictions
Dhaka tribunal convicts two; Nigerian church stampede; Damascus residents hopes for peace
US Saudi diplomacy
US Sec of State Kerry in Saudi Arabia; Nigeria wedding attack; Swedish hit music exports
Deposed Egyptian President Morsi Appears in Court
Morsi in Egyptian court; Nazi art loot discovered; Kurdish mayor's hunger strike in Turkey
04/11/2013
Newshour: Nazi Looted Art
Global search for looted art; Italian finance minister; Serge the llama