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The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK is to take place in Northern Ireland.
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The US president tells America Iraq is now a strong ally against terror and a force for democracy in the Middle East.
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President Bush tells the US Iraq is now a strong ally against terror and a force for democracy in the Middle East.
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Police in Australia's biggest city say a big presence on beaches at the weekend stopped a repeat of riots.
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Human Rights Watch says the US operated a secret prison in Afghanistan where detainees were tortured.
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Health officials investigate after a boy aged eight reportedly dies of bird flu in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta.
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VVS Laxman scores his ninth Test century as India reach 319-7 at lunch on the second day of the third Test.
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An Iraqi extremist group posts an internet video showing a man being repeatedly shot from behind.
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South Africa fall to 85-2, chasing 491 to beat Australia after Brad Hodge's double century.
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Steven Spielberg hires one of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's aides to marke the film Munich in the country.
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Fourteen people are arrested in Spain suspected of belonging to an Islamist group with al-Qaeda links.
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Rebels in Indonesia's Aceh province hand in all the weapons they agreed to under an historic peace deal.
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Australian power firm Delta Electricity receives an extortion demand that threatens to sabotage its power plants.
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Mexican President Vicente Fox strongly condemns a US proposal to build a fence along parts of their border.
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Sri Lanka's army says troops fired in the air to disperse protesters in Jaffna, but there are reports of injuries.
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Uganda will have to pay compensation to DR Congo for looting in the 1998-2003 war, the World Court rules.
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Latest news from the fourth one-day international in Rawalpindi.
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The first Afghan parliament for more than 30 years holds an inaugural session seen as another milestone.
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Floods in southern Thailand have killed 27 people in the past two weeks, officials say, as Malaysia is also hit.
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Baghdad's deputy governor is hurt in a gun ambush on his convoy that kills three of his bodyguards.
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A re-enactment is staged to try and solve the mystery of the Cypriot airliner crash which killed 121 people.
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Counting of votes begins across DR Congo after an unscheduled second day of polling in a referendum on a new constitution.
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Pakistan beat England by 13 runs to take an unassailable 3-1 lead in the one-day series.
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Shares in Ranbaxy, one of India's top drug firms, fall 6% after a US court ruled it could not copy a blockbuster drug.
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Drought in southern Somalia is claiming the lives of people as well as livestock, forcing hundreds to flee their homes.
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Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye pleads not guilty as his treason and rape trials are postponed.
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Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio has resigned, following a scandal involving banking takeovers
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Jakaya Kikwete appears to have won Tanzania's presidential election after gaining 80.2% of the vote.
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Mozambique's parliament rejects an opposition attempt to get the image of a gun removed from the national flag.
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A UN expert on torture says Germany should prosecute an Uzbek minister over an alleged massacre.
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Six people are charged in Oslo in connection with the theft of Edvard Munch's painting The Scream.
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Two women said to have built banned weapons for Saddam Hussein are among several ex-aides freed by the US.
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The first set of civil partnership ceremonies for gay couples in the UK take place in Belfast.
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US President George Bush defends his decision to allow eavesdropping on Americans in the wake of 9/11.
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Leftist candidate Evo Morales claims victory in Bolivia's presidential poll after his main rival admits defeat.
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Bank of Italy governor Antonio Fazio resigns, following a scandal involving a controversial bank takeover.
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Brazilian police launch an inquiry into the murder of the security chief of one of the country's most notorious prisons.
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Israeli shares fall from record levels following news that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suffered a mild stroke.
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President Mubarak addresses Egypt's parliament for the first time since Islamists won 20% of seats.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad bans Western music on state-run TV and radio stations.
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