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  Pipe dream
Date: February  28, 2009  

By Tom EsslemontBBC News, BakuOn the outskirts of Azerbaijan s BP Shah Deniz gas terminal, security guards are on duty around the clock.They patrol the 15km (9 mile) fence as a damp drizzle falls across the warren of gas pipes and oil platforms behind it. Green and yellow flags flap violently in the wind.You can see why every effort is made to prot
  Spain to hold key regional polls
Date: February  28, 2009  

Spanish voters are to head to regional polls in the Basque Country and Galicia - the first political test since Spain slid into recession in 2008.In the Basque Country, Spain s ruling Socialists seek to be the first non-nationalist party to form the cabinet.The Socialists have been focusing their campaign on the economy there rather than issues of
  US resists Karzai poll date call
Date: February  28, 2009  

The US has reiterated it prefers an August date for presidential elections in Afghanistan, despite President Hamid Karzai s call for polls on 21 April.The US state department said elections in August would best ensure a free vote in a secure environment.On Saturday, Mr Karzai called for polls before his term ends in May. The Afghan Independent Elec
  Options open
Date: February  28, 2009  

By Kevin ConnollyBBC News, WashingtonRarely can a military campaign have ended so ambiguously and with so little fanfare.America s combat mission in Iraq, which cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, which broke homes and hearts, which angered enemies and alienated allies, will end by August 2010.That means that tens of thousands of soldi
  To the rescue
Date: February  28, 2009  

By Andrew FletcherBBC Radio 5 Live, MerseysideMore than 100 fire fighters are taking part in search and rescue exercises at three locations, in an attempt to test their competency in case of a major incident. So how realistic are these rehearsalsIt s not the usual scene that shoppers in Kirby on a Saturday morning are accustomed to.Firefighters wea
  HSBC to announce £12bn share sale
Date: February  28, 2009  

Europe s biggest bank HSBC is set to announce a plan to raise more than £12bn through a new rights issue.The move is likely to be unveiled on Monday when the bank releases its financial results for 2008.BBC business correspondent Emma Simpson said the bank would ask its investors and shareholders to buy more shares in a bid to strengthen its pos
  Burma offers Rohingya return deal
Date: February  28, 2009  

By Jonathan HeadBBC News, BangkokThe Burmese government has said it will take back ethnic Rohingyas who have fled to neighbouring countries.But it will only do so if they identify themselves as Bengalis, as it refuses to recognise the Rohingyas as one of its official minorities.Tens of thousands of Rohingyas have left Burma in recent years and wash
  Expulsion plan
Date: February  28, 2009  

There is dramatic evidence from one of Asia s fastest-expanding economies of the downturn s severity. A senior minister says the government wants to send back 60% of Malaysia s two million foreign workers, the BBC s Robin Brant reports.The machines are noisy, the smell of chemicals and paint pervades the air. Lim Kok Boon s plastics factory in Sela
  Fears of anarchy in Madagascar
Date: February  28, 2009  

The recent outbreak of political violence has left the people of Madagascar traumatised, as Christina Corbett discovered. The taxi swerved into the middle of the road as my animated driver twisted in his seat to look me in the eye."What do I think of what s happening here" he cried, repeating my question.It was a question I was now beginning to reg
  America s trillion dollar question
Date: February  28, 2009  

The US economy has suffered a sharp nosedive. Plunging exports and the biggest fall in consumer spending in 28 years has meant that the decline was much worse than analysts had expected. Kevin Connolly in the US looks at why we are now talking trillions as well as billions.In the world of American government, the trillion is the new billion.There w


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