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Whitehall appeals against a ruling that an Australian imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay is a UK citizen.
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Twenty-one Iraqis and a US soldier die in one of the deadliest days of violence in Iraq since the election.
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Israel fires at least two missiles at targets in the Gaza Strip as it enforces a new buffer zone against militants.
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Philippine prosecutors are to file rape charges against four US marines over an alleged assault on a woman.
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Four brothers who owned a bar in the Chinese city of Zhongshan where a fire killed 26 people are arrested.
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A Greek newspaper has named what it says is a British spy chief involved in the 'abduction' of 28 Pakistanis.
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South Africa end day two of the second Test on 169-2 after Mike Hussey's 122 helps Australia to 355.
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Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse is due in India on his first visit abroad since his election.
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Serbia denies reports the government knows the whereabouts of leading war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic.
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Six people die in a shooting at a Christmas party over the weekend in western Kenya.
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Fighting continues in the east of DR Congo as the UN says its troops have Ugandan rebels on the run.
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A British soldier is one of two peacekeepers hurt by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.
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Japan approves a strategy to put more women in leadership positions, amid a rapidly declining birth rate.
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The Ugandan army kills civilians in a camp where they were sheltering from LRA rebel attacks.
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Six suspected militants from a group linked to the al-Qaeda are sentenced to death by a court in Kuwait.
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Nepal says security is in place for February's municipal polls and they will go ahead despite calls for a boycott.
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A teenage girl is killed and six other people injured in a shooting on a busy shopping street in Toronto, Canada.
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The death toll in Japan's weekend train crash rises to five, as rescuers recover another body.
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Rebels in the Indonesian province of Aceh disband their armed wing, in line with a peace deal.
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The bodies of suspected Shia rebels killed by Saddam Hussein are found in a mass grave, Iraqi police say.
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LK Advani will formally step down as president of India's main opposition BJP on Saturday.
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Remains of what are said to be Muslim victims of 2002's religious riots are found in India's Gujarat state.
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Kerry Packer, the Australian tycoon who transformed cricket in the 1970s, dies aged 68.
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Lebanon arrests a Syrian suspect in the killing of newspaper owner Gibran Tueni, judicial sources say.
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Egypt's President Mubarak addresses the new Arab parliament at its first meeting in Cairo.
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A former China government minister is jailed for life for taking more than half a million dollars in bribes.
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Arnold Schwarzenegger's name is deleted from his Austrian hometown's websites in a spat over the US death penalty.
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China releases a village activist held for three months, in what is seen as an unusual concession to protesters.
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At least 11 soldiers are killed in northern Sri Lanka in a landmine attack, military officials say.
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One of Saudi Arabia's top militant suspects is captured after clashes in which five police die, the authorities say.
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A train in northern Finland hits a dog sleigh at a level crossing, killing two young Italians.
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Prosecutors launch an inquiry into whether an EU lawmaker should stand trial for insulting Turkish armed forces.
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Some 200 hostages remain in the hands of inmates who seized control of a jail in Brazil on Christmas Day.
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A German doctor is in custody after allegedly admitting she tortured at a secretive religious colony in Chile.
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New talks are scheduled as Ukraine seeks a deal on gas prices amid a worsening row with Russia.
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Suspected left-wing rebels ambush and kill 24 soldiers guarding coca destruction efforts in south Colombia.
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A top US senator criticises the handling of Saddam Hussein's trial ahead of a meeting with its chief judge.
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The Kremlin accepts the resignation of President Putin's economic adviser in protest at curbs on freedom.
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Diego Maradona says he will not make a comeback with Argentine fourth division side Excursionistas.
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Poland plans to keep its troops in Iraq until the end of 2006, reversing earlier withdrawal plans.
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Opposition MPs in Greece seek more information over claims Pakistani migrants were abducted by agents.
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