The international community must “up its game” to secure a lasting political settlement for Afghanistan, the Labour leader Ed Miliband has said during a secret visit to the country

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Miliband fears for Afghan future

BBC reporter Paul Wood has been inside the Syrian town of Rastan which has been under attack by the country’s military despite a UN brokered ceasefire.

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VIDEO: Battle in Syria despite ‘ceasefire’

Egyptians are voting for the second day in the country’s first free presidential elections – 15 months after Hosni Mubarak was ousted.

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Egypt’s landmark election resumes

Two foreign doctors and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped in the country’s north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials say.

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Aid workers held in Afghanistan

The head of the UK Border Force has said he does not “anticipate” people facing long queues to get into the country during the Olympics.

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Border queues ‘not anticipated’

One of the country’s biggest companies, the car firm Arnold Clark, describes many young Scots as “unsuitable” for work.

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Young Scots ‘unsuitable’ for work

The NAACP’s board of directors voted Saturday to endorse same-sex marriage rights – adding the influential voice of the country’s leading black civil rights organization to a debate that has divided the African-American community. Read full article > >

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NAACP endorses same-sex marriage

The Spanish government has announced that the level of bad loans held by the country’s banks is at an 18-year high.

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VIDEO: Tension over Spanish bank debts

The new election date came as Greece's questionable status in the eurozone prompted what the country's president called “fear that could develop into panic.”

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Vote date set; euros pulled from banks

A hydroelectric dam supported by the country’s president would send thousands of people to live elsewhere.

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Boca Sanibeni Journal: Dam Project Would Displace Villages in Jungle Valley of Peru

The story of Strikers, the country’s only bowling alley, seems to be that rarest of things, an Afghan good news story.

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Kabul Journal: Bowling Alley’s 12 Lanes Lead to Another Afghanistan

When it comes to nutrition policy, we know about a lot of things that don’t work: Soda taxes and proximity to healthy foods , for example, have relatively shaky support in the public health literature. At the same time, we know we need something to work: The CDC projects that 42 percent of the country will be obese by 2030. Read full article > >

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Have California schools cracked the code on obesity?

South Korea has stepped up customs inspections to stop capsules filled with powdered human flesh being smuggled into the country from China.

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VIDEO: Tackling the trade in human flesh pills

In Japan, thousands of people have taken to the streets to celebrate the temporary switching off of the country’s last operating nuclear reactor.

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VIDEO: Protesters call for nuclear free Japan

China says he can leave the country and the Americans say they will welcome him. But he is still confined to a hospital in Beijing.

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VIDEO: Clinton leaves China without activist