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| Since the junta ruling Burma changed its name to Myanmar, the issue of what to call the country has been political |
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| An American Senate report has torn into 's offshore tax operations |
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| A Muslim cleric in America wields surprising political power in Turkey |
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| A senior politician with the opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party was murdered on May 18th |
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| Amtrak, America's government-subsidised interstate passenger railway, is speeding up its Wi-Fi service |
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| Historians still argue about the significance of the Roman empire's conversion to Christianity |
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| Fewer than half of children under 18 in the north of Côte d'Ivoire are officially registered with the state |
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| An invention helps distinguish the blood of a healthy birth from the blood of a life-threatening haemorrhage |
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| English-speakers use "nation" in a way unmoored from how it is used in other western countries |
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| A market-research company has just published its ranking of the world's "most powerful" brands |
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| Trending: Sweden is leading the world in allowing private companies to run public institutions |
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| : Today's chart reveals the most successful video-games consoles |
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| On May 20th Yahoo announced that it was buying Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash. What exactly is ? |
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| A new exhibition in London claims that state propaganda is a bit more subtle and effective than we like to admit |
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| California is home to one of the largest chaparral biomes in the world. These dense scrublands are vulnerable to fire |
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| Researchers in Japan decided to find out why a pat on the back and a short walk can put a crying baby to sleep |
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| A destructive tornado hit the Oklahoma City area yesterday. Of the 91 dead as of Tuesday morning, 20 were children |
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| Video: Our correspondents discuss the Chinese Communist Party's latest attempts to rein in corruption |
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| The supply side of China's economy is the stuff of legend but demand is recovering more slowly than expected |
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| Linguistic neighbours tend to be generous to one another when giving marks in the Song Contest |
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