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Britons on stag and hen parties abroad should have to pay if they ask diplomats for help, say MPs.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao visits the US Boeing plant near Seattle, ahead of talks with President Bush.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his country is leaving the Andean Community of Nations.
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Human Rights Watch says it has heard many accounts of torture and beatings by police in East Timor.
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Italy's prime minister refuses to concede in the general election despite a Supreme Court ruling against his bloc.
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Norway's special envoy to Sri Lanka is due to hold talks with the Tamil Tigers to attend peace talks in Geneva.
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A day-long strike called by opposition parties in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, disrupts normal life.
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Australia thrash Bangladesh by an innings and 80 runs to complete a 2-0 series whitewash.
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At least 13 people are killed after a bus falls into a gorge in northern India, police say.
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Cuba holds a ceremony to mark the 45th anniversary of its defeat of a US-trained invasion force at the Bay of Pigs.
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The US releases the most comprehensive list yet of terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay.
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Eleven construction workers die and four are injured in a fire at a building site near the Russian capital.
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An official Kenyan audit says officials have paid hugely inflated prices for military and security equipment.
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A student from India is stabbed St Petersburg - the latest in a series of apparently racist attacks.
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Hundreds of people march through the Kenyan capital to protest at the brutal killing of an HIV-positive boy.
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Chinese President Hu Jintao is in Washington for talks with George W Bush expected to focus on trade ties.
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Russian energy giant Gazprom, one of Europe's main gas suppliers, warns against moves to block its expansion.
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Fighting has made it impossible to reach large areas of the Sudanese region of Darfur, the Red Cross says.
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Algeria's President Bouteflika has gone back to France for a medical check-up after surgery late last year.
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Amnesty International says Iran executed 94 people in 2005, while 86 were executed in Saudi Arabia.
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A Mexican priest confesses to strangling the mother of his lovechild, and chopping up her body, authorities say.
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At least 64 people are killed after buses plunge off roads in two separate accidents in northern India, police say.
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Nigerian oil militants claim responsibility for exploding a car bomb at an army barracks in Port Harcourt.
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Militants kill seven paramilitary troops in an ambush in the restive North Waziristan tribal area, officials say.
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The Solomon Islands swear in its new prime minister, whose appointment sparked two days of rioting.
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Iraq's Ibrahim Jaafari refers his nomination as PM back to the main Shia coalition, to end months of political wrangling.
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Nigeria will repay $6.4bn in debt on Friday, becoming the first African nation to settle with its official lenders.
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Nepalese security forces open fire on protesters in the capital, killing at least three people, hospital sources say.
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The star witness in the trial of Uganda's opposition leader appears in court, scotching reports she had fled.
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Egyptian judges protest against the government's decision to prosecute two senior colleagues.
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Torrential rain brings more woe to thousands hit by floods along the Danube in Romania and Bulgaria.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels pull out of peace talks in Switzerland next week following a surge in violence.
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Eighteen women who call themselves the "Granny Peace Brigade" go on trial for their protest against the Iraq war.
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Mark Schwarzer is Middlesbrough's hero as they limit Steaua Bucharest to a one-goal lead in their Uefa Cup semi final.
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Oil prices hit a new high in London before easing, on persistent fears that demand will squeeze global supplies.
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The head of the Taleban in Pakistan pledges more attacks in Afghanistan, in a rare interview with the BBC.
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UN human rights experts condemn Nepal's security forces after three protesters die at anti-monarchy rallies.
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The decapitated bodies of two Mexican policemen are found in Acapulco as a war against drug gangs rages.
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The US arrests almost 1,200 alleged illegal immigrant workers in what officials say is the largest raid of its kind.
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Alleged Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano refuses to answer questions by Italian prosecutors.
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Scott Crossfield, the first person to fly at twice the speed of sound, dies aged 84 in a plane crash
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The US State Department says it looks forward to working with Romano Prodi following Italy's disputed election.
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