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One of four minarets in Switzerland
Swiss appear to back ban on minarets
Projections from exit polls suggest Swiss voters have backed a referendum proposal to ban the building of minarets.
Swiss minaret vote: Your views
Uncomfortable minaret debate
Zurich allows anti-minaret poster

Dubai banks are given extra liquidity
The central bank of the United Arab Emirates says it is setting up a facility to provide banks with extra liquidity.
Bin Laden was 'within grasp' of US forces
The US failure to capture Bin Laden in Afghanistan in late 2001 inflamed regional insurgency, a US Senate report says.

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ENTERTAINMENT

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Commonwealth backs climate fund

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AFRICA

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Second day of polling in Namibia

AMERICAS

Brazil nun case witness is shot

Uruguay votes for new president

ASIA-PACIFIC

Pirates jailed for yacht murder

Three dead in China plane crash

EUROPE

Swedish 'murder' committed by elk

France gets key EU Commission job

MIDDLE EAST

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Saudi flood deaths 'rise to 100'

SOUTH ASIA

Nepal cabinet to meet on Everest

Ferry sinks in south Bangladesh

NEWS FROM THE UK

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BNP leader at climate conference

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Osama Bin Laden in 1998 Find Bin Laden, PM tells Pakistan
Gordon Brown tells the BBC that Pakistan must do more to "break" al-Qaeda and find Osama Bin Laden.

Borders starts closing down sales

Creche closed for police inquiry

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Alan Johnston on his return to tense West Bank

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