BBC News - Turkey's 'standing man' silent protest spreads
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A silent, standing protest by performance artist Erdem Gunduz has been taken up by hundreds of anti-government demonstrators and spread to several Turkish cities.
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BBC News - More than seven million refugees displaced in 2012 - UN
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The UN says 7.6 million people became refugees in 2012, the highest number since 1994, with the conflict in Syria a major new factor.
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BBC News - US House Republicans pass abortion-limits bill
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 The Republican-controlled US House of Representatives passes a bill to restrict abortions to the first 20 weeks after conception.
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BBC News - Latifa Nabizada - Afghanistan's first woman of the skies
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 Colonel Nabizada - Afghanistan's first woman helicopter pilot - often shares her cockpit with her baby daughter
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BBC News - Nasa’s Cassini probe to acquire distant Earth portrait
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 The Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn is going to picture the ringed planet in a special photo that also includes a distant Earth.
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BBC News - Topshop seeks Chinese fashion hunters in Hong Kong
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The British fashion retailer, Topshop, has opened its first store in Hong Kong hoping to attract China's newly affluent middle class spenders
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BBC News - The rise of the global middle class
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 Hundreds of millions of people have been lifted out of poverty but can the middle class continue to grow?
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BBC News - The new middle class revolution: Facts and figures
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BBC News invites you to take a trip around the world to see where the new middle class is emerging.
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العالم - BBC Arabic - الأمم المتحدة: عدد ا
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 الأمم المتحدة إن عدد اللاجئين حول العالم بلغ 7.6 ملايين لاجئ في عام 2012 وهو أعلى معدل للاجئين منذ عام 1994، والصراع في سوريا أحد العوامل الرئيسية
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强奸多名幼女河南官员被执行死刑 - BBC中文网 - 两岸
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 强奸、猥亵多名幼女的原河南省永城市委办公室副主任李新功被处决。
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Protestas en Brasil: ¿un movimiento con futuro? - BBC Mundo - Noticias
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 Las manifestaciones callejeras que han sorprendido a Brasil comienzan a cosechar algunos logros, pero una duda es si podrán mantenerse y convertirse en fuerza para promover cambios. BBC Mundo analiza de qué depende eso.
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BBC News - 'Hoff' yeti crab hitched ride on ocean super-highway
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A hairy crab named after US actor David Hasselhoff hitched a ride on an ocean "super-highway" to colonise deep sea vents in the Atlantic tens of millions of years ago.
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BBC News - Lancet call for independent Guantanamo medical care
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An open letter published in the Lancet medical journal calls for hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay detainees to receive independent medical care.
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BBC News - Japan exports rise by most since 2010
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Japanese exports rise in May by the most since 2010 as the yen weakens, providing a boost to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's plan to revive the economy.
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BBC News - China's Dalian Wanda to buy UK yacht maker and hotel
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Dalian Wanda Group, a Chinese property developer, says it will spend £1bn ($1.6bn) to buy a British yacht maker and property in London.
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BBC News - Assange 'to stay in embassy even if sex claims are dropped'
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Wikileaks website founder Julian Assange vows to remain in the Ecuadorian embassy in London even if accusations of sex crimes are dropped.
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BBC News - Nigeria militants kill school children in Maiduguri
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Suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria kill at least nine school children, in what survivors suggest is a response to growing vigilante groups.
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BBC News - Jail reckless bankers, standards commission urges
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The Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards calls for new measures, including criminal sanctions, to make bankers responsible for their own failings.
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BBC News - Nasa’s Cassini probe to acquire distant Earth portrait
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The Cassini probe in orbit around Saturn is going to picture the ringed planet in a special photo that also includes a distant Earth.
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BBC News - Brazil clashes after President Rousseff praises protests
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Riot police and demonstrators clash in new protests in Brazil's largest city, Sao Paulo, after President Rousseff praises the protests' aims.
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