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An Antonov-28 plane crashes near Buvaku in eastern DR Congo, killing all 17 people on board.
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Visiting UN head Kofi Annan calls for a 12-month extension to the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti.
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The US president urges Cubans to work for democracy in his first public comments since Fidel Castro fell ill.
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Workers at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine tell managers to raise their pay offer and avoid a strike.
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Justin Gatlin's controversial coach Trevor Graham has been banned from using US Olympic Committee training centres and facilities.
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Russian is to extradite 13 Uzbeks facing terrorism charges over the 13 May 2005 Andijan bloodshed.
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A second Chinese mass cull of dogs is announced to fight a rabies outbreak, which has killed 16 people.
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Malaysia is ready to send 1,000 soldiers to Lebanon to join a peacekeeping force, the defence chief says.
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Sierra Leone announces elections for July 2007, the first since United Nations peacekeepers left in 2005.
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US Democratic Senators vote against moves to raise the minimum wage in order to block an inheritance tax cut.
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Thousands of people are escaping fighting in the town of Muttur between the Sri Lankan army and Tamil rebels.
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The families of people arrested in Burundi over an alleged coup plot say their relatives have been tortured.
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Afghan and US-led coalition forces kill 25 Taleban militants in the south of the country, the coalition says.
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Three Palestinians are killed during Israeli army operations in the south of Gaza, hospital officials say.
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An EU rapid reaction team starts work on an Italian island to help curb illegal immigration.
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The front-runner to be Japan's next PM is criticised for reportedly making a secret visit to the Yasukuni Shrine.
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The Indian Supreme Court asks Coca Cola and Pepsi to respond to charges that their drinks contain pesticides.
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Cuban state TV rejects President Bush's call for "democratic change" after Fidel Castro's illness.
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The Israeli army is ordered to prepare for a possible advance deeper into Lebanon, as jets renew Beirut strikes.
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Three Filipino oil workers and a German are kidnapped in Nigeria's petroleum-producing Niger Delta region
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Home Secretary John Reid says he will push for new laws after losing an appeal over nine Afghans' UK rights.
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Typhoon Prapiroon kills 18 people and causes transport chaos in southern China and Hong Kong.
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At least 13 people are injured in two bomb explosions in southern Turkey, police say.
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Europe may ask Eritrea to repay $3m, the value of food aid that was sold to fund state programmes.
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At least 14 people are reported dead in separate attacks in Mosul and Hadhar in northern Iraq.
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US unemployment rises for the first time this year as the economy creates fewer jobs than expected last month.
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A car bomb explodes outside a police station in the Colombian city of Cali, killing at least five people.
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai says a suicide attack in Kandahar that killed 21 people was "cowardly".
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Poland sees its jobless rate hit a five year low in July as more of its citizens seek better paid work elsewhere in the EU.
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The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army rebels announce an immediate unilateral ceasefire.
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Europe's security watchdog protests over the jailing of independent election monitors in Belarus.
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The city of Cape Town agrees to buy wind-generated power, in what is set to be South Africa's first such project.
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Ukraine's parliament approves Viktor Yanukovych as prime minister, ending a long political crisis.
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Kevin Pietersen hits his fifth Test century to guide England to 347-6 on day one of the Headingley Test against Pakistan.
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Prosecutors urging a court martial for four US soldiers accused of murder in Iraq say they are "war criminals".
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Fernando Alonso gets a two-second qualifying penalty in Hungary while his team Renault opt not to use a radical design.
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Two suspected serial killers are held in Phoenix, Arizona, by US police - but the hunt for another goes on.
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The US imposes sanctions on arms firms from Russia, North Korea, India and Cuba for allegedly trading with Iran.
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Cuba's leadership says Fidel Castro is recovering from surgery and his brother is firmly in charge as acting president.
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At least two Palestinians are killed in an Israeli missile strike in the Gaza Strip, hospital officials say.
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An Israeli air raid near the Lebanon-Syria border kills at least 26, as Hezbollah rockets reach far into Israel.
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