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An ex-foreign minister is suspended from India's ruling party over his alleged role in Iraq's oil-for-food programme.
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A second video allegedly showing war crimes committed against Serbs in 1995 is broadcast in Serbia.
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At least six people have died in China from taking the antibiotic clindamycin phosphate glucose.
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Tests confirm that two Indonesian teenagers died of bird flu, bringing the country's toll to 44, the world's highest.
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The Australian Parliament begins debating proposals to process all future asylum seekers in off-shore camps.
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is likely to sever relations with Israel over its action in Lebanon.
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Water begins flowing as a disputed canal in north-east Sri Lanka reopens after weeks of fighting.
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Philippines scientists warn that Wednesday's full moon could spark a major eruption of the Mount Mayon volcano.
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A US transport helicopter crashes in western Iraq, injuring four crew members and leaving two missing.
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Floods in India force the closure of a number of energy plants, including a natural gas complex, reports say.
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DR Congo's President Joseph Kabila is ahead in early election results, but trails in the west of the country.
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Democratic Senator Joe Lieberman fights to win his party's primary amid criticism of his Iraq war support.
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England paceman Sajid Mahmood refuses to let abuse from sections of the Headingley crowd get to him.
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Taleban fighters kill an Afghan woman and her son for spying and hang their bodies in public, an Afghan official says.
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Chad and Sudan say they are resuming diplomatic ties, broken when Chad accused Sudan of backing rebels.
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A US senator ditches a fundraising letter from Mel Gibson after a furore over the star's anti-Semitic outburst.
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The US and France start revising a draft Lebanon ceasefire resolution, after Arab states appeal to the UN.
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Malaysia's ex-PM Mahathir Mohamad says he will produce proof of corruption against the government.
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Two men are charged with murder in the US city of Phoenix, which has been terrorised by a series of killings.
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Arsenal winger Jose Antonio Reyes reportedly hopes to tie up a move to Real Madrid.
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Two Norwegian oil workers and two Ukranians are kidnapped in Nigeria's Niger Delta region.
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Nepal's government and Maoist rebels reach agreement on the supervision of their weapons.
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Cinemagoers get their first chance to see Oliver Stone's World Trade Center film as it is released in the US.
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Prosecutors at a US military hearing dismiss claims that stress might have led US soldiers to kill an Iraqi family.
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Zimbabwean migrants in South Africa suffer from their lack of legal status, Human Rights Watch says.
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Fighting erupts in a central Somali town as Islamists in control of the south try to extend their influence.
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A retired Russian secret service officer is sentenced to 13 years in prison for spying for Britain.
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A partial recount of July's disputed presidential election in Mexico gets under way, as protests continue.
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The Indian state of Kerala bans the production and sale of Coca Cola and Pepsi saying they pose a health risk.
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Top Democrat Joe Lieberman files papers to stand as an independent for the US Senate after losing a primary.
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Zimbabwe confiscates more than $50m worth of old banknotes in a crackdown on money launderers.
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Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels walk out of talks, demanding the government declare a ceasefire.
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Thousands of women march through South Africa's capital, recreating an historic anti-apartheid event.
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Four Iraqi men are arrested over the kidnap earlier this year of journalist Jill Carroll, the US military says.
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Israeli ministers approve a plan to push deeper into Lebanon to try to remove the threat from Hezbollah rockets.
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Israel's army starts a new push into south Lebanon, after the government decides to extend ground operations.
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Baghdad's mortuary received more than 1,800 bodies in July, the highest figure yet since a wave of violence hit.
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Striking workers at the world's largest copper mine in Chile break off talks after bosses fail to improve a pay offer.
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