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An earthquake with magnitude 6.7 strikes off the Pacific nation of Vanuatu, but there is no risk of a tsunami.
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Reuters news agency dismisses a photographer after finding he altered two images taken in Lebanon.
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Israel is to withdraw its ambassador to Venezuela as a row over the war in Lebanon escalates.
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Nine suspected illegal immigrants die after their car swerved to avoid a US border patrol road spike in Arizona.
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A German court grants asylum to an Iranian woman because she would face persecution as a lesbian in Iran.
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Thousands of supporters of Mexico's defeated presidential candidate rally at the country's electoral tribunal.
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UN diplomats consider a draft resolution to end the fighting in Lebanon, as air strikes and ground clashes continue.
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A French relief agency says two more of its workers are found dead in Sri Lanka after 15 were killed on Sunday.
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Philippine volcano Mount Mayon show more signs of eruption, but locals remain reluctant to leave.
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Police in India-administered Kashmir say they have killed three militants belonging to a Pakistan-based group.
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Oil prices fall back from record highs in London, reached after BP said it would close a key US oilfield.
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China has announced its first human bird flu death came two years earlier than reported, state media say.
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A senior Nepalese minister says there is no prospect of peace talks with Maoist rebels breaking down.
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Nigerian troops begin to leave the Bakassi peninsula, ahead of a deadline to hand the area over to Cameroon.
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The trial of an American contractor accused of the death of an Afghan prisoner begins in the US.
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Police in Ceuta, North Africa, arrest nearly 400 migrants who tried to reach Spain hidden in fairground rides.
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A network of Islamic radicals is broken up in Morocco with the arrest of 44 people, officials say.
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A strike in Chile at the world's largest privately-owned copper mine cuts production by almost two-thirds.
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India is one of the World Bank's largest borrowers, receiving six per cent of total funds, the donor agency says.
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Almost two thirds of hospitals in Lebanon could "cease to function" due to fuel shortages, the World Health Organization warns.
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An Australian woman killed on Norfolk Island suffered an "extremely violent assault", a committal hearing is told.
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Tour de France winner Floyd Landis believes his doping test was "fatally flawed" and says officials have their own agenda.
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Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman fights to win his party's primary amid criticism of his support for the Iraq war.
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Israel warns south Lebanon residents it will escalate operations and destroy moving vehicles.
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Two people are killed by a car bomb in a residential area of the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, police say.
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Drawings by a late Russian avant-garde architect worth about $1.3m are stolen from a state archive.
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Germany's industrial output posts an unexpected decline during June as foreign demand for its goods wanes.
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Attacks on aid workers in Sudan's Darfur region are becoming more frequent, relief agencies say.
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The Palestinian parliamentary speaker detained by Israel is taken to hospital with chest pains and dizziness.
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England bowl out Pakistan for 155 to win the third Test by 167 runs and take a winning 2-0 lead in the series.
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A prosecutor and two policemen die in attacks in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan.
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Sudan's leader makes a surprise visit to Chad, to attend President Deby's inauguration.
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Spanish police arrest two suspected arsonists in Galicia, where forest fires threaten towns and villages.
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Zimbabwe's justice minister goes on trial for trying to pervert the course of justice - a charge he denies.
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India launches a major offensive against HIV-Aids in rural areas.
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Lazio take the appeal against their match-fixing penalty to the Italian Olympic Committee.
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Supporters of Mexico's leftist presidential candidate take over toll booths to protest at the disputed result.
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The Tamil Tigers say they have reopened a waterway at the centre of fighting with the Sri Lankan military.
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The UN calls off the day's attempt to get aid to south Lebanon, as Israel imposes a curfew on southern residents.
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The Arab League makes a formal bid at the UN to secure changes to a draft Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire resolution.
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At least 19 people die and scores are hurt in a series of blasts in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, officials say.
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US central bankers hold the country's key interest rate at 5.25%, breaking two-year cycle of rate hikes.
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A "lights out" protest over air pollution in Hong Kong is less widespread than organisers had hoped.
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