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12 December 2011 Last updated at 20:32 ET

Syrian death toll 'exceeds 5,000'Anti-government protest in Idlib (09/12/11)

More than 5,000 people are now believed to have been killed in the uprising in Syria, the UN's top human rights official says.


A range of mountains are highlighted at sunset in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada Canada pulls out of Kyoto accord

Canada will formally withdraw from the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, the first nation to pull out of the treaty, the environment minister has said.

Iranian TV images of downed drone. 8 Dec 2011US asks Iran to give back drone

President Barack Obama says the US has requested that Tehran return the surveillance drone captured by Iran's military earlier this month.

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