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Two Brazilians are convicted and jailed for murdering US-born nun and peasants' rights activist Dorothy Stang.
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Some 75 children are feared to be among 103 people thought to have died on a plane that crashed in Nigeria.
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President Hamid Karzai appoints 34 members to the Afghan parliament, as elected MPs prepare for its opening.
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Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF Party endorses a crackdown on critics at its annual conference.
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A third route of a bus service seen as a symbol of the India-Pakistan peace process holds a trial run.
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Iran's parliament finally approves a new oil minister, ending a three-month political deadlock.
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Several thousand people hold the first of a series of protests against the WTO summit in Hong Kong.
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The deadline set by kidnappers holding Briton Norman Kember passes with no news of his fate.
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Sri Lanka expresses concern over conditions set by Norway for a return to peace mediation.
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A commander who ordered police to open fire on a village demonstration in China is arrested, media reports say.
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India's foreign secretary arrives in Nepal for meetings with government officials and opposition politicians.
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Relatives of the victims of a plane crash in Nigeria crowd mortuaries to try to identify loved ones.
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Thousands of Croatians rally to support Gen Ante Gotovina a day before he is due before the UN war crimes tribunal.
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Iranian MPs launch an attempt to sack the defence minister over the crash of a military plane in Tehran.
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A powerful earthquake of 6.8 magnitude has hit Papua New Guinea, geologists are reporting.
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Israeli Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz leaves Likud to join Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's new Kadima party.
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Malaysia's PM says he hopes Burma's neighbours will be able to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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The Tokyo Stock Exchange admits that its own system fault obstructed an attempt to cancel a giant misplaced sale.
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Iraq's Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari tells the BBC he is optimistic many Sunnis will take part in Thursday's poll.
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At least 40 people are killed after firecrackers set a bus full of wedding guests ablaze in Pakistan.
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Australian leg-spin great Shane Warne is named BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year 2005.
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The authorities in Australia condemn an outbreak of racial violence on a Sydney beach as 'not the Australian way'.
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England's Ashes cricket hero Andrew Flintoff wins the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award.
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Uzbekistan agrees to allow German troops to continue to use the Termez military base near the Afghan border.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan receives the latest report into the killing of Lebanese ex-PM Rafik Hariri.
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