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President Uribe calls for more help from foreign countries in the battle against Colombia's drugs trade.
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The Iraq war and the Asian tsunami were the most significant global events of 2005, suggests a BBC poll.
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The number of detainees taking part in a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased sharply, the US says.
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The US says it will stop food aid to North Korea unless foreign aid agencies can oversee its distribution.
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The US embassy in Malaysian is closed in response to what officials say is a terrorist threat.
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Egyptian riot police fire water cannon at Sudanese refugees, breaking up a three-month-old protest camp in Cairo.
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Australia ease to a 184-run win over South Africa in the second Test in Melbourne.
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South Korea's parliament approves a government plan to bring home 1,000 of its 3,200 troops stationed in Iraq.
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About 100 journalists from China's progressive Beijing News walk out to protest against their editor's sacking.
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The World Bank warns Chad that it may take action over the African nation's move to reallocate oil revenues.
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Three US oil companies are resuming their oil and gas operations in Libya after a 19-year absence.
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Iraq's largest oil refinery is shut down at a cost of $20m a day after death threats to tanker drivers.
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Former Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's decision to retire takes BJP party colleagues by surprise.
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The White House and NSA sites trip up on official US guidelines that prohibit the tracking of web users.
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At least 24 people are killed in an avalanche in north-west Pakistan while digging for gemstones, officials say.
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Two police officers are shot dead with their own weapons during a prisoner escape in northern Greece.
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Former Nigerian military leader General Gowon says President Obasanjo should not try to stand for a third term in office.
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Ex-South African Deputy President Zuma says he will campaign for the ANC despite corruption and rape charges.
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At least five people are killed and 10 wounded in two explosions in central Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
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A team of international monitors will review complaints that the recent Iraqi elections were not fair.
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Police in the Indian city of Bangalore step up security as fresh threats follow Wednesday's college shooting.
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At least five people are killed and 10 wounded in two explosions in central Baghdad, Iraqi officials say.
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Spain withdraws political asylum from Equatorial Guinea opposition leader Severo Moto.
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There are credible reports that Guantanamo detainees are being force-fed in a cruel way, a UN official says.
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Spain's high court jails an Eta member for 100 years for the car bomb murder in 2000 of a socialist leader.
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The Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt reopens after a protest by Palestinian police forced it to close.
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Two Britons are killed in northern France after their car runs off a motorway in icy conditions.
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Egypt now says 20 Sudanese migrants have died after riot police broke up a makeshift protest camp in Cairo.
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An inquiry begins into the leaking of information about George Bush's secret spying programme, officials say.
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A nine-year-old boy loses his case against a Beijing hospital his parents claim gave him HIV-contaminated blood.
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Russian energy giant Gazprom renews a threat to cut off Ukraine's gas - but says it will not hit supplies to the EU.
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The Iraqi oil minister is temporarily released from his post amid a growing oil supply crisis.
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The family of a French engineer abducted in Iraq appeals for his release on Arabic satellite TV.
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Poland becomes the first ex-Warsaw Pact country to patrol the Baltic states' air space for Nato.
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A French judge says a warship lined with asbestos can be dismantled in India, rejecting green objections.
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The UN expresses shock as up to 20 Sudanese migrants die when their Cairo camp is stormed by Egyptian police.
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The Sudanese government says it will shut its embassy in Iraq, in an apparent attempt to save kidnapped staff.
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Chad has reacted angrily to warnings from the World Bank over changes to its use of oil revenues.
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A top Syrian official says President Assad threatened ex-Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri months before his death.
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Italy complains to Morocco about a large increase in the number of its immigrants entering the country illegally.
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Russia's former nuclear energy minister is extradited to face corruption charges in his homeland.
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