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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urges Congress to ratify a nuclear technology deal with India.
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UK troops deploying to Afghanistan face "fundamental tension" over their mission, MPs warn.
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Archaeologists discover an ancient pyramid buried under a hill at a ceremonial site in Mexico City.
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A teenager charged with war crimes in Guantanamo Bay boycotts his trial over claims of inhumane treatment.
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One man dies and a judge is hurt in an apparent suicide bombing at a courthouse in south-west China.
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Merck is found liable for the death of one man after he took painkiller Vioxx but is cleared in another US case.
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Japan confirms a North Korean will attend a meeting focusing mainly on Pyongyang's nuclear programme.
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Venezuelans call for justice after the discovery of the bodies of three young boys kidnapped in February.
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Indian environmentalist Medha Patkar, who is on hunger strike, is arrested and taken to hospital.
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Sweden says it is considering a request to accept ex-Liberian President Taylor as a prisoner if he is convicted.
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Australia's PM welcomes news that Indonesians trying to sail to asylum have diverted to Papua New Guinea.
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Opposition parties say police detain many of their workers at the start of a four-day strike against Nepal's king.
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The Ukrainian president's party says it will reunite with Orange Revolution partners to form a coalition.
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The US says it has caught a leading figure in the Iraqi insurgency and an associate of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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India chase 238 to win the fourth one-day international in Cochin.
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Experts are to reveal whether the bird flu virus found in a Scotland swan is the UK's first case of the lethal H5N1 strain.
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Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, who is under arrest in Chile, marries his long-term Japanese girlfriend.
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Israeli President Moshe Katsav asks acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to form a new government.
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The head of Los Angeles' Catholic archdiocese calls for "just and humane" immigration laws in the US, reports the BBC's Duncan Kennedy.
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India beat England by four wickets in Cochin to win the one-day series series with three games left.
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Italian authorities thwarted a terror attack ahead of the general elections, the interior minister reveals.
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Embattled PM Dominique de Villepin says he will fight on to solve youth unemployment despite student protests.
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Two senior leaders of India's main opposition BJP begin nation-wide tours highlighting security issues.
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Opponents of outgoing Thai PM threaten to keep up protests until he is fully removed from power.
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A British cameraman shot dead in the Gaza Strip by an Israeli soldier was murdered, an inquest jury says.
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The Greek PM's chief of staff testifies before a panel probing a major phone-tapping scandal.
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Israeli police briefly hold a Hamas cabinet minister from the new Palestinian government.
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A car bomb explodes in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf, killing at least 10 people, security officials say.
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A judge on trial with the former Iraqi leader denies sentencing minors to death in 1982..
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The number of militants killed in clashes in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area rises to 40, the army says.
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A US businesswoman offers to raise $16m so that Canada ends a controversial seal hunt.
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A swan found dead in Scotland has tested positive for the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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A third person is reported to have died of the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in Egypt.
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At least 69 people die when a boat capsizes in the Red Sea off the coast of Djibouti, on its way to a festival.
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Uganda's Supreme Court narrowly rejects a challenge to the re-election of President Yoweri Museveni.
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Nigeria's government urges the vice-president to resign, after he publicly opposed moves to let the president seek re-election.
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A Turner painting sets a new auction record for a British artist, selling for $35.8m in New York.
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Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua is put under investigation over the Iraq oil-for-food scandal.
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Chinese police examine whether the discovery of 121 human skulls is linked to trade in macabre handicrafts.
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Heavy rain brings some relief to drought-hit Kenya but the problem of severe food shortages remains.
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US senators reach a compromise on legislation granting legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
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