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Israel-Palestinian conflict: France holds world summit

• 4 hours ago
 
• From the sectionMiddle East

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Image captionFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault opened the conference on Sunday

A major international conference to try to kick-start peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians is under way in the French capital, Paris.

Brexit: UK 'could change economic model' if single market access denied

• 2 hours ago
 
• From the sectionUK Politics

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The UK may be forced to change its "economic model" if it is locked out of the single market after Brexit, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said.

Trump v Spies: A very public row which could damage both

By Gordon CoreraSecurity correspondent, BBC News

• 6 January 2017
 
• From the sectionUS & Canada

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Image captionDonald Trump and US spies have disagreed openly on hacking during the US elction

It is not unprecedented for political leaders to fall-out with spies. But a row has never before played out so publicly - with rival pronouncements over Twitter and in front of Congress.

Donald Trump blasts 'fools' who oppose good Russian ties

• 7 January 2017
 
• From the sectionUS & Canada

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Image captionA billboard in Montenegro sums up a possible future policy direction

US President-elect Donald Trump has posted a series of tweets condemning those who oppose good relations with Russia as "'stupid' people, or fools".

Mariah Carey: Row over New Year's Eve performance debacle

• 3 hours ago
 
• From the sectionEntertainment & Arts

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Media caption"We can't hear": Watch an excerpt from Mariah Carey's New Year's Eve performance. Courtesy Dick Clark Productions

There have been bitter recriminations after Mariah Carey's televised New Year's Eve performance went wrong.

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18 revelations from Wikileaks' hacked Clinton emails

• 27 October 2016
 
• From the sectionUS & Canada

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Image captionJohn Podesta listens to his candidate speak aboard 'Hill Force One', the nickname for Clinton's campaign plane

Fake news in 2016: What it is, what it wasn't, how to help

• 30 December 2016
 
• From the sectionWorld

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In a year in which feelings have appeared to outrank fact, some news has turned out not to be fact but fiction.

Russia-US row: Trump praises Putin amid hacking expulsions

• 21 minutes ago
 
• From the sectionUS & Canada

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Image captionRussia's foreign ministry had formally proposed expelling US diplomats

US President-elect Donald Trump has praised Vladimir Putin after the Russian president ruled out a tit-for-tat response to the expulsion of diplomats in a row over hacking.

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