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Sebastian Pinera receives the presidential sash (11 March 2010)

Pinera sworn in as new quake hits

Sebastian Pinera is sworn in as president of quake-hit Chile, as a 7.2-magnitude aftershock strikes the centre of the country.

Pinera faces changed priorities

Profile: Sebastian Pinera

Chile Mapuche speak out online

Greeks stage fresh general strike

Greek public and transport services grind to a halt and clashes break out during a third strike over austerity measures.

Web censure 'curbs human rights'

Freedom of expression on the web has been curtailed in 2009, the US state department says in its annual human rights report.

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Cuban hunger striker 'ready to die'

UK develops 'intelligent CCTV'

Boy's 911 call thwarts armed robbers

Haitian school with a difference

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US Vice President Joe Biden accepts a gift from Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu

Between friends

US and Israel dodge settlement confrontation

Net billionaires

Who has profited from the web's biggest sites?

Parched island

Politicians look away as Cyprus dies of drought

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BUSINESS

Obama urges China action on yuan

HSBC in huge Swiss data theft

'No decision yet' on BA strikes

TECHNOLOGY

'Console killer' launches in June

Telegraph poles to take broadband

Tories pledge 'fastest broadband'

ENTERTAINMENT

Corey Haim was 'tormented soul'

Taio Cruz scales Billboard chart

HEALTH

GPs 'lax' on cholesterol targets

SCIENCE & ENVIRONMENT

Scientists to review climate body

Japan protest over tuna ban plan

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AFRICA

Gambia row over wave of arrests

Morocco warns religious groups

AMERICAS

Lula criticised for Cuba comment

BP to explore for oil in Brazil

ASIA-PACIFIC

Burma annuls 1990 Suu Kyi poll win

Japan opens 98th national airport

EUROPE

Ukraine president forms coalition

Ex-Bosnian leader 'owed apology'

MIDDLE EAST

Hamas releases British journalist

Deadly clashes in southern Yemen

SOUTH ASIA

Afghan plea for 'no proxy wars'

Modi faces Gujarat riot questions

NEWS FROM THE UK

Four deny charges over expenses

Three MPs and a peer tell a court they are not guilty of charges of false accounting in relation to their expenses claims.

'No giveaway Budget' says Darling

Crackdown call over school cheats

High-speed rail plans announced

Plans for a new high-speed rail line between London and Birmingham are announced by Transport Secretary Lord Adonis.

James Bulger's mother meets Straw

UK giving US control of Musa Qala

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'Jihad Jane'

Profile of Colleen LaRose, charged with terror offences

Hoodwinked?

Were rumours of Sarkozy's infidelity a media hoax?

A Chinese delegate at the National People's Congress, Beijing.

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