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Protesters are jubilant as news spreads that Ali Abdullah Saleh has left the country

Arab Spring claims its third despot

Patrick Cockburn: Sanaa, Yemen 05.06.11 Thousands throng streets as President flees and regime totters.

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Troops guard a haul of drugs that was destined for the US

Hope returns to Juarez ... riding a big pink motorbike

On the streets of a Mexican border town notorious for its vicious drug war, 'Las Guerreras', a brave group of female bikers, are fighting back. William Lloyd-George reports

Love-locks return to the bridges of Paris

A year after their mysterious disappearance, the "love-locks" of Paris are back on the city's bridges, more plentiful and vibrant than ever despite lingering suspicions that unromantic officials from City Hall may again swoop with their wire cutters and remove the tokens of couples' love.

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The al-Qa'ida leader was active in the Soviet- Afghan war, where he lost an eye and a finger

Pakistan is '98% sure' US drone killed militant leader

The reported killing of Ilyas Kashmiri – a high-profile al-Qa'ida leader who had even been tipped to assume the top spot – by a CIA drone in Pakistan's South Waziristan province marks a major success for Washington, coming just over a month after the death of Osama bin Laden.

Protestors gather along Syria's border with Israel

Israeli troops 'kill as many as 20' as protesters try to cross border

Israel's northern border with Syria was a scene of bloodshed yesterday after Israeli troops fired on pro-Palestinian protesters attempting to cross its ceasefire lines in the occupied Golan Heights. Syrian reports claimed that as many as 20 were killed, including a 12-year-old boy.

Apache strikes take war on Gaddafi to new level

British pilots are destroying regime weapons but sparing fleeing soldiers. By Kim Sengupta on board HMS Ocean off Libya

Australia plans to send unaccompanied child refugees to Malaysia,
where they will be held at centres such as this one near Kuala Lumpur

Anger at Australian plans to 'swap' child refugees

In a grim echo of the hardline refugee policies of the right-wing former prime minister John Howard, Australia's Labor government yesterday pledged to send unaccompanied children to Malaysia under an already controversial asylum-seeker deal.

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A French mother with the Haitian child legitimately adopted in 2010

Profit, not care: The ugly side of overseas adoptions

Laurie Penny: Lax regulation and an endless demand by childless couples in the West has created an often exploitative market in babies born in the developing world.