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After 26 years at the BBC, today is journalist Claire Bolderson’s last day on the job.

Police in Toulouse, France, say a gunman shot and killed a rabbi, his sons, and another child, at a Jewish school today. Witnesses say the attacked used a motor scooter.

As more and more countries eye the opportunities being revealed by melting polar ice, businesses, tourists, and international politicians are all beating a path to the northernmost inhabited place on earth.

The American campaign in Afghanistan faced a double setback on Thursday after Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded that NATO troops pull out of rural areas and the Taliban broke off peace negotiations. Both steps are in reaction to the killing of 16 civilians, allegedly by an American soldier.

The BBC reports on a covert effort underway to change the leadership in China.

One year after the massive earthquake and tsunami, more than three thousand people remain missing. The search for them continues. Nearly 16,000 are now confirmed to have died.

Thousands of Iranians bent on overthrowing the current Iranian regime are being held in Camp Ashraf near Baghdad. A retired Army General says the U.S. had promised to protect them. But since Iraqis assumed control of the camp, dozens have been killed and hundreds wounded.

Israel and Iran are bitter rivals. But it wasn’t always that way. The BBC brings us the story of Iranian Jews, now living in Israel, who try to maintain ties to their homeland.

The BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse spent time with one of Libya’s most powerful militia groups and reported on this battle of wills that has been raging since Tripoli fell to rebel forces last August.

A convoy of Red Cross trucks carrying supplies reached Homs Friday– but the Red Cross says they’ve been refused permission to bring aid into the devastated neighborhood of Baba Amr.