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Hong Kong's leader Donald Tsang says the rejection of his electoral reform plans are a setback for democracy.
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A US appeals court rejects a bid by the government to transfer terror suspect Jose Padilla to civilian custody.
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Colombia's government and the country's ELN rebels agree to meet again in January after five days of talks in Cuba.
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Lebanon's PM insists his country will not hand over freed hijacker Mohammed Ali Hammadi to the US.
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Brazil's opens up secret files from the years of military rule after a long campaign from rights groups.
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Would-be immigrants hoping to settle in the Netherlands are to be required to pass a language and culture test.
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India complete a 2-0 series win over Sri Lanka with a convincing 259-run win in Ahmedabad.
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Peru's president declares a state of emergency in six provinces after rebels attack and kill eight police officers.
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Beijing criticises pro-democracy lawmakers in Hong Kong for blocking a controversial reform package.
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The White House rebuffs a claim by Saddam Hussein that he has been beaten and tortured in US custody.
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The WHO confirms two more Indonesian bird flu deaths, amid fears the virus is gaining resistance to a key drug.
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India's launches a three-tonne satellite that promises to revolutionise its television services.
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A body probing an alleged cash for questions scam involving 10 Indian MPs recommends they be expelled.
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Two New Orleans police officers are sacked after a TV tape showed the beating of a man in the street.
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At least 10 people die of hunger in northern Kenya as aid agencies warn 2.5m Kenyans face famine.
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A Cambodian court finds the country's exiled opposition leader Sam Rainsy guilty of criminal defamation.
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A chemical river spill reaches the Russian town of Khabarovsk but officials say pollution is negligible.
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Haiti's long-awaited elections, scheduled for 8 January, may be postponed for a fourth time, officials say.
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Jan Rocha in Uruguay considers how such a tiny country with almost no industry or natural resources, can make it on its own.
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Japan's population is to drop this year for the first time since records began, official data shows.
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Seven people die in fighting between UN troops and a militia in eastern DR Congo as the UN backs targeted sanctions.
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An Israeli woman is sentenced to three years in jail for aiding a wanted Palestinian militant in the West Bank.
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Malaysia's government tells female lawmakers who want to stop legislation over polygamy to toe the line.
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A mystery mass illness in Chechnya could be linked to psychological factors, Russian officials say.
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Three Palestinians are shot and killed as they try to flee from Israeli troops in Nablus, sources say.
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Tony Blair tells UK troops during a trip to Iraq he is proud of the work they are doing to build democracy.
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Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye looks set to spend Christmas in jail as his legal battles are delayed.
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Two Afghans found guilty of abducting an Italian aid worker are sentenced to death for killing a businessman.
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Zimbabwe's cricketers vote for strike action and will boycott next month's Afro-Asia Cup in Bangladesh.
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Cricket at large is likely to suffer in the wake of an Indian government order preventing exclsuive cricket broadcasts.
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A writer is fined for insulting Turkish identity on similar charges to those facing novelist Orhan Pamuk.
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Sunni Arab and secular parties in Iraq threaten to boycott the new parliament, complaining of electoral fraud.
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Argentine football legend Diego Maradona is briefly detained following an incident at an airport in Brazil.
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An Iraqi judge says he had no complaints from Saddam Hussein about having been tortured in US custody.
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A former Colombian minister is charged with instigating the murder of a presidential candidate in 1989.
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People aiding key Bosnian Serb war crimes suspects have been identified and risk arrest, Serbia warns.
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The UN's refugee agency in Cairo says efforts to persuade Sudanese protesters to end a sit-in have failed.
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Nigeria's president puts troops on high alert after an oil pipeline attack in Niger Delta that kills at least eight.
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A bomb goes off outside the Greek Development Ministry in Athens, but no casualties are reported.
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