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Kofi Annan warns the world not to forget the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as Israeli missiles kill three in Gaza.
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China plans to extend its controversial new Tibetan rail link to reach the region's second-biggest city, Xigaze.
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Israeli troops advance on a town in south Lebanon, after the government decides to extend ground operations.
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US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed 15 insurgents who were trying to attack one of their bases.
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A judge announces the verdicts in the case of the deadly 1993 Mumbai bombings will be delivered in September.
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Philippine scientists renew warnings of a major explosion at Mount Mayon, citing an "ominous" quiet.
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Wal-Mart says it will allow workers at all of its 60 Chinese stores to form unions.
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Mediators are trying to save Ugandan peace talks after Lord's Resistance Army rebels walked out.
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Australia's lower house passes a controversial bill to process asylum seekers arriving by boat in off-shore camps.
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Highly enriched uranium is removed from a nuclear reactor in Poland to prevent terrorists getting hold of it.
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The Pakistani authorities place the former head of an Islamic militant group, suspected of having terror links, under house arrest.
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A Colombian military court finds more than 140 soldiers guilty of stealing money from Farc rebels.
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The UN refugee agency says Kyrgyzstan's extradition of five men to Uzbekistan violates international law.
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India and Bangladesh accuse each other of cross border shelling, with two people reported killed.
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President Putin orders an inventory of Russia's cultural treasures, following thefts from the Hermitage.
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The Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt reopens for the first time in seven weeks.
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Separatist Ogaden rebels in Ethiopia say they are willing to talk peace with the government.
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A plot to blow up planes from the UK to the US would have caused "mass murder", Scotland Yard says.
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A German town raises funds to buy a hotel amid fears it could otherwise fall into the hands of a neo-Nazi group.
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A suicide bombing at a market in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf kills at least 35 people and injures more than 90.
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The US will deploy extra air marshals on transatlantic flights after an alleged plot to blow up airlines is disrupted.
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More than 1.5 million people are evacuated in south-east China as a major typhoon, Saomai, sweeps ashore.
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President George W Bush says a foiled plot to blow up US-bound airliners shows the US is still at war with extremists.
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Malawi's top prosecutor is told to resign, after he dropped charges against ex-President Bakili Muluzi.
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An Ethiopian army general defects with his soldiers to the Eritrean-backed Oromo rebels.
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Poland's PM condemns an exhibition showing the plight of Germans expelled from the east after World War II.
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The UN demands an independent inquiry into the murders of 17 aid workers in Sri Lanka.
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A US appeals court says a retrial is not justified in the case of five Cuban men found guilty of spying for Havana.
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Marlon Devonish, Rhys Williams and Becky Lyne win bronze for Britain on day four at the European Championships.
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The UN's top humanitarian official criticises Israel and Hezbollah for hindering access to south Lebanon.
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Pakistan makes a number of arrests in connection with an alleged UK plot to blow up planes flying to the US.
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A US judge increases media tycoon Lord Conrad Black's bail to $21m, ending a dispute over his finances.
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Airline and travel shares fall globally after UK police say they foiled a plot to blow up US-bound planes.
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Seventy-two Brazilian deputies face expulsion after a panel uncovered a mass corruption ring.
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Suspects are questioned and buildings searched after police say a plot to bomb UK planes is disrupted.
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