Special polling stations are to be constructed for people displaced by recent violence to vote in the run-off amid fears of further delays.

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Guinea boycott threat is averted

The death toll following the eruption of Indonesia’s volatile Mt Merapi volcano rises to 25, amid fears of major fresh activity.

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Indonesian volcano toll hits 25

An outbreak of cholera in central Haiti has killed almost 200 people, amid fears the disease could reach the capital Port-au-Prince.

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Haiti’s cholera death toll mounts

UN troops will be deployed to “hotspots” along the border of north and south Sudan, amid fears of violence ahead of next year’s vote on southern independence.

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Hungarian workers are building an emergency dam amid fears a wall at a huge industrial sludge pool may collapse, releasing a second wave of toxic mud.

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Hungary races to build up new dam

Hungarian authorities have evacuated the village of Kolontar amid fears of a second wave of red toxic sludge.

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At the mercy of a second toxic spill

Hungarian authorities evacuate the village of Kolontar amid fears of a second wave of red toxic sludge.

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Hungary fears second toxic wave

Experts tackling Hungary’s toxic red sludge say Friday will be a crucial day, amid fears that warming weather could spread poisons by air.

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‘Crucial day’ for Danube sludge

Sudan announces a tight timetable for January’s referendum on independence for the south of the country, amid fears any delay could lead to violence.

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Sudan gets referendum timetable

More governments join the US and UK in issuing travel warnings to their citizens about travelling in Europe, amid fears that al-Qaeda plans to attack cities on the continent.

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More terror attack travel warnings

US and EU envoys hold crisis talks in the Middle East amid fears that the relaunched peace talks could collapse over the settlement issue.

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Bid to save Mid-East peace talks

An inquiry is under way to establish how two female prison officers in Oxfordshire became ill amid fears their tea may have been poisoned.

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Prison officer ‘poisoning’ probe

Armed police are posted outside the main branch of Kabul Bank as customers continue to withdraw money amid fears it may collapse.

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Security stepped up at Kabul Bank

The BBC’s Orla Guerin meets survivors of the Pakistan floods in the Swat Valley, who are facing increasingly desperate struggle to find food and supplies, amid fears of a power vacuum in the former Taliban stronghold.

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Flood survivors’ long trek for food