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President George W Bush says a plot to blow up US-bound airliners shows the US is still at war with extremists.
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Japan's central bank holds its key interest rate at 0.25% - a month after it scrapped its zero rate.
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China warns Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi against visiting the war-linked Yasukuni shrine.
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UK soldiers will lead an offensive against the Taleban in southern Afghanistan, the head of Nato forces says.
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Key powers step up efforts to reach a deal on a UN draft aimed at ending violence in Lebanon and Israel.
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Gaming website Betonsports is to close US-facing operations after it is prevented from taking US bets.
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Nineteen suspects' assets are frozen as police probe an alleged plot to blow up planes flying from the UK to the US.
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A New Zealand man is committed to stand trial for the murder of an Australian woman on Norfolk Island.
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Equatorial Guinea's entire government resigns after months of criticism by President Nguema.
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The US Department of Homeland security has issued a warning about a flaw found in Microsoft's Windows.
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More than 100 people are killed as Typhoon Saomai batters coastal regions in south-eastern China.
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The US warns of possible terror attacks in Delhi and Mumbai in the run-up to India's Independence Day celebrations.
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A Catholic priest in Tanzania is jailed for 30 years for sexually molesting a 17-year-old boy.
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Thousands of New Orleans prisoners were abandoned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, a US civil rights group says.
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The Sri Lankan army says it will continue an operation to secure a disputed waterway in the north-east.
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One man is killed as gunmen fire on striking teachers marching through the Mexican city of Oaxaca.
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The UK's security threat level will stay at "critical" for now, after a plot to blow up flights to the US was disrupted.
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China postpones a controversial auction of licences for foreigners to hunt wild animals, local media say.
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Authorities in Padua, northern Italy, erect a steel wall around a housing estate used by drug dealers.
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Police in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir say a woman and her two children have been killed by militants.
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Nigeria is withdrawing the last of its troops from the Bakassi peninsula ahead of a handover to Cameroon.
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A blast hits the grave of Bosnian ex-President Alija Izetbegovic, seen as a hero by many Bosnian Muslims.
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World markets steady in the aftermath of UK police disrupting a plot to blow up transatlantic jets.
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Nigeria's anti-corruption agency says it will publish the names of political leaders who have stolen from the treasury.
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A Turkish lawyer tries to flee the courtroom at the opening of his trial for the killing of a high court judge.
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A bomb kills two policemen in northern Iraq, as the bodies of two US crew killed in a helicopter crash are found.
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The border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt is briefly re-opened on Friday, for the second day running.
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Tamil Tiger rebels say many of their fighters have been killed as the Sri Lanka military opens a "new front" against them.
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Six election officials are arrested for allegedly trying to rig vote counting after last month's election in DR Congo.
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Efforts intensify at the UN to try to end the Lebanon conflict, as violence between Israel and Hezbollah goes on.
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Nato says a suicide bomber has killed one of its soldiers in an attack on a convoy in southern Afghanistan.
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A strong earthquake rocks Mexico City prompting the evacuation of a number of buildings.
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Yasuo Takei, whose $5.6bn fortune made him one of Japan's richest men, dies at the age of 76.
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Poland could face legal action for failing to protect its natural habitats, the European Commission says.
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Justin Gatlin could escape a life ban for doping if he testifies against his coach, the US Anti-Doping Agency says.
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Ex-Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh pulls back from an attack on Congress party President Sonia Gandhi.
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The UN Human Rights Council votes for an inquiry into Israeli actions in Lebanon but omits mention of Hezbollah.
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Pakistan has named one of two British men arrested over an alleged UK plot to blow up planes to the US.
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The execution of three Indonesian Christians for attacking Muslims is delayed until after independence day.
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EU to hold a meeting of aviation and security experts next week on the suspected UK planes terror plot.
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Cameroon discovers it is paying out civil service salaries to 45,000 employees who do not actually exist.
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Investigators in the US are following leads from the UK to check for domestic links to a plot to blow up airplanes.
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Nobel Prize-winning German novelist Guenter Grass admits he was recruited into the Waffen-SS.
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