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The US is working closely with Israel to use diplomacy to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power, President Barack Obama says.

China tells its airlines not to pay charges to the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme, aimed at cutting carbon emissions.

Party leaders in Greece's governing coalition are to resume crisis talks on backing a 130bn-euro rescue plan needed to avoid a debt default.

Mimi Alford, a former mistress of President John F Kennedy, reveal new details of their relationship in a book, according to US media reports.

Egypt says it is to try 43 people - including Americans and other foreigners - over the alleged illegal funding of non-governmental organisations.

Soldiers patrol the streets in the Brazilian state of Bahia where a police strike has caused the crime rate to soar.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton deplores as a 'travesty' Russia and China's veto of a UN resolution condemning Syria's violent crackdown on protesters.

Finland elects its first conservative head of state in decades, the pro-European Sauli Niinisto, after a run-off vote.

Panama's jailed ex-leader Manuel Noriega is moved from his prison cell to hospital, suffering hypertension, and having possibly had a stroke.

The death toll from freezing weather across Europe continues to climb, with transport links also badly affected.