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Tuheitia Paki is named king of New Zealand's Maori people, succeeding his late mother Dame Te Ata.
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A US man held in Thailand over the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey flies into Los Angeles.
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A strike at the giant Escondida mine in Chile enters its third week after staff reject an improved pay offer.
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Three US policemen and a state trooper are wounded, with the gunman then killing himself in a standoff in Texas.
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A US man held in Thailand over the death of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey flies into Los Angeles.
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Sierra Leone reacts angrily as Australia grants visas to athletes who absconded at the Commonwealth Games.
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The Japanese foreign minister announces his bid to succeed Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi.
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Dutch international defender Khalid Boulahrouz joins Chelsea from Hamburg.
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President Kabila wins DR Congo's landmark poll, but fails to secure 50% of the vote, forcing a second round.
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Prosecutors lament Gen Mladic's absence from the largest trial yet for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
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Robbers seriously injured Russia's ambassador to Kenya near the capital Nairobi, officials say.
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Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang vows to find men who attacked pro-democracy lawmaker Albert Ho.
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Togo's government and political parties sign a formal agreement aimed at ending years of turmoil.
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A former Tamil politician and newspaper chief is killed in northern Sri Lanka, police say.
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Two trains packed with commuters collide in northern Egypt, killing at least 58 people and injuring nearly 150.
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Saudi Arabian security forces surround a building holding suspected militants in the west coast city of Jeddah.
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Pakistan cricket captain Inzamam-ul-Haq is charged with bringing the game into disrepute after forfeiting The Oval Test.
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Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf gives his support to the national cricket team caught up in umpiring row.
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Police in Burundi arrest former President Domitien Ndayizeye in connection with an alleged coup plot.
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At least three people die and many are hurt as a storm wreaks havoc at a firework display in Budapest.
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Somalia's prime minister nominates a new cabinet, two weeks after the previous one was sacked.
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The funeral is held for one of India's most famous musicians, Ustad Bismillah Khan, who has died aged 91.
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Saddam Hussein refuses to enter a plea on the opening day of his trial on charges of genocide and war crimes.
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Striking teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca have occupied eight radio stations to voice their demands.
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Chancellor Merkel seeks to boost surveillance after a plot to bomb German trains was foiled.
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Eleven people are charged in the UK over an alleged plot to blow up transatlantic airliners.
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The US president says withdrawing troops from Iraq would be a "huge mistake".
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A US court throws out one charge against Jose Padilla, a US citizen who was held as an "enemy combatant".
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An explosion killed 10 people, including at least two children, at a market in eastern Moscow, officials say.
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The US president pledges $230m in aid for Lebanon and urges the rapid deployment of a peace force.
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UN peacekeepers in DR Congo rescue several foreign diplomats trapped in a house by heavy shooting.
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Six people are killed and at least 36 injured in a passenger train derailment in northern Spain.
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Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer says the one-day series against England could be called off if Inzamam-ul-Haq is banned.
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People in Zimbabwe rush to spend their old banknotes before they cease to be legal tender.
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Israeli planes destroy a house belonging to an Islamic Jihad militant, saying it was a weapons store.
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