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Colombian police arrest 10 senior leaders of a right-wing paramilitary group for breaching the terms of a peace accord.
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Phil Mickelson will go head-to-head with world number one Tiger Woods when the USPGA gets under way on Thursday.
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A woman is arrested after a London-Washington flight is diverted to Boston following an on-board disturbance.
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UN officials will lead talks on what international effort is needed to tackle a 140km oil spill off Lebanon.
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The Lebanese army begins deploying in the south as Israeli forces start to pull back after a month of war.
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The Lebanese army begins deploying in the south as Israeli forces start to pull back after a month of war.
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US-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed eight insurgents who attacked them in the east of the country.
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At least 12 people jailed for the 2002 Bali bombs have their sentences cut to mark Indonesian independence day.
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A man arrested in Thailand is held in connection with US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey's murder.
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A man arrested in Thailand is held in connection with US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey's murder.
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Multiplex, the developer of the troubled Wembley Stadium project, reports doubled annual profits.
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Peru prosecutors file murder charges against opposition leader Ollanta Humala, accusing him of rights abuses.
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India captain Rahul Dravid says his team are happy to stay in Sri Lanka and play a one-day series despite a bomb attack.
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Maoists in Nepal say they will not join the government without "structural changes" to the state.
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Striking workers at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine in Chile have cut their salary demands.
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A US man arrested in Thailand says the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was an accident.
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Japan's Junichiro Koizumi will visit Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan later this month, the foreign ministry says.
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Local officials appeal for help as teams scour flood waters in southern Ethiopia looking for stranded survivors.
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Salman Rushdie defends Guenter Grass after the German writer admitted he had been in the Waffen SS.
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Russia accuses three Japanese fishermen detained after a clash in disputed waters of poaching and illegal entry.
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The US says it has crippled a major Mexican drugs gang with the arrest on a boat of Javier Arellano Felix.
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Police probing an alleged bomb plot targeting UK to US flights get more time to question 23 suspects, and one is released.
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Employers' warnings about suspected illegal workers are sometimes ignored by officials, the BBC is told.
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A Mozambican couple confess to exhuming corpses to eat human flesh to boost their healing powers.
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Israel sets up a commission to investigate how the military campaign in Lebanon was conducted.
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Gunmen kidnap at least 15 people travelling to a refugee camp in southern Afghanistan, officials say.
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Germany plans to help an expanded UN force in Lebanon, but wants to avoid confronting Israeli troops.
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Nigerian anti-graft officers raid companies belonging to an associate of ex-President Babangida.
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A US man admits he was with child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey when she died in 1996 - but denies killing her.
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Sri Lankan troops kill at least 75 Tamil Tiger rebels in an offensive in Jaffna peninsula, the army says.
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Philippine President Gloria Arroyo says she plans to form a commission to probe political killings in the country.
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The UN is investigating allegations that some of its troops in DR Congo have used child prostitutes.
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Experts draw up a 50m euro action plan to tackle a huge oil spill along the Lebanese and Syrian coastline.
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Remains of more than 1,000 Srebrenica massacre victims are found at Bosnia's biggest mass grave.
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At least seven people are killed in a car bombing at a Baghdad market as Iraq is hit by another day of violence.
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India will not accept US pressure to cap its atomic weapons programme, the PM tells parliament.
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Leading Lebanese political Saad Hariri strongly criticises the president of neighbouring Syria, Bashar al-Assad.
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A probe reveals China's hospitals are not reporting deaths properly, raising concern about monitoring.
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A woman is arrested over an on-board disturbance which forced a flight from London to Washington to divert.
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A US government wiretap scheme breaches the constitution and should be halted at once, a judge says.
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Romania is gripped by a political storm over the files of the Securitate, the former communist secret police.
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Lebanese soldiers move into parts of southern Lebanon for the first time in decades, as Israel pulls more troops back.
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Brazil's current account surplus swelled to a record $3.04bn in July, signalling strong growth in exports.
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England are bowled out for 173 on day one at The Oval, before Pakistan reply with a healthy 96-1.
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At least 12 people jailed for the 2002 Bali bombs have their sentences cut to mark Indonesian independence day.
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The UN prepares to thrash out the terms and make-up of its Lebanon force, as France pledges only 200 soldiers.
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A US airport is evacuated after a passenger's bottle of liquid tests positive for explosives.
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A bomb from a US-led coalition aircraft in south-east Afghanistan kills at least 12 policemen, officials say.
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A former CIA contractor is found guilty of assaulting an Afghan prisoner who later died.
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Russian prosecutors launch a criminal investigation into alleged asset-stripping by ex-bosses of oil firm Yukos.
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Police in Paris evict more than 500 people from a former student residence known as the city's biggest squat.
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The White House laughs off claims that John Prescott said the US was "crap" over the Middle East road map.
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A US judge finds a number of top tobacco firms guilty of conspiring to defraud the public about smoking risks.
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American Ryder Cup candidates Lucas Glover and Chris Riley upstage the clash of golf's big two to lead the way at Medinah.
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One person is killed and more than 60 are feared missing after a volcano erupts in southern Ecuador.
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