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 World  Chrissy - 270 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The new Philippines president Corazon Aquino is sworn in today, bringing to an end years of dictatorship under Ferdinand Marcos. Former leader Mr Marcos, who changed the constitution in 1973 to give himself absolute power, was threatening to go ahead with
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 World Chrissy - 270 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk A Jewish settler killed up to 30 Palestinians at a mosque in Hebron after opening fire as people gathered for Friday morning prayers. US-born doctor Baruch Goldstein, 38, burst into the mosque in the Machpela Cave and fired up to 100 bullets at worship
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 World Chrissy - 270 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, has denounced Joseph Stalin as a brutal despot. In a sensational speech to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party Mr Khrushchev painted a graphic picture of a regime of "suspicion, fear, and terror" built up under
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 World Chrissy - 275 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk China's paramount leader Deng Xiaoping has died at the age of 92. He had been suffering from failing health for several years and was last seen in public three years ago.
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 World Chrissy - 276 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The Duke and Duchess of Kent have celebrated the end of 300 years of colonial rule in Gambia with 35 chiefs. At midnight Gambia will become the smallest - and 37th - sovereign state in Africa and the last of Britain's West African colonies to gain indepen
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 World Chrissy - 277 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk China has sent hundreds of troops into Vietnam after weeks of tension and a military build-up along the border. Vietnamese Vice-Foreign Minister Nguyen Ko Tach has told ambassadors in Hanoi the Chinese troops have occupied nearly all Vietnamese border
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 World Chrissy - 277 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has been sentenced to life in prison by a court in Wisconsin for murdering and dismembering 15 young men and boys. Dahmer, 31, was unable to convince the jury that his cannibalism and necrophilia were the result of madness.
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 World Chrissy - 279 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk British forces in Singapore have surrendered unconditionally to the Japanese seven days after enemy troops first stormed the island. A war correspondent of the Japanese News Agency in Singapore reported that fighting ceased along the entire Malayan front
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 World Chrissy - 279 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The British Government has launched a new decimal currency across the country. The familiar pound (£), shilling (s) and pence (d) coins are to be phased out over the next 18 months in favour of a system dividing the pound into units of ten, including half
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 World Chrissy - 280 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Police have confirmed a body found on a railway embankment in Merseyside is that of missing toddler James Bulger. A murder inquiry has been launched. His injuries were described as "horrific" by Merseyside police.
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 World Chrissy - 280 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk British and US bombers have dropped hundreds of thousands of explosives on the German city of Dresden. The city is reported to be a vital command centre for the German defence against Soviet forces approaching from the east.
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 World Chrissy - 283 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Two British diplomats who vanished in mysterious circumstances five years ago have reappeared in the Soviet Union. Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean handed a statement to four representatives from the press in a hotel room overlooking Moscow's Red Square.
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 World Chrissy - 283 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The British Conservative Party has chosen Margaret Thatcher as its new leader. She will be the first woman to head a British political party after a landslide victory over the other four - male - candidates.
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 World Chrissy - 283 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. His release follows the relaxation of apartheid laws - including lifting the ban on leading black rights party the African National Congress (ANC)
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 World Chrissy - 288 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk Children all over Britain have been emptying out their piggy-banks and heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today. Toffee apples were the biggest sellers, with sticks of nougat and liquorice strips also
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