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EgyptBritain drew up plans to cut off the Nile to Egypt to force a return of the Suez Canal, files from 1956 reveal.
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United StatesThe US government reveals a new set of citizenship questions to test immigrants' "passion" for the country.
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ChinaA China court upholds a four-year prison sentence for activist Chen Guangcheng, after a third hearing.
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United StatesThe US government warns of a possible al-Qaeda call to attack US financial online services.
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India, United StatesFormer US President Bill Clinton visits the region of southern India worst hit by the 2004 tsunami.
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FijiA military deadline threatening a coup in Fiji passes without incident, but tensions remain high.
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Syria, 
LebanonLebanon's PM Fouad Siniora says his government will not be brought down by protests planned by pro-Syrian groups.
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United KingdomPaul Collingwood nears a century and Kevin Pietersen adds a bright fifty as England post 266-3 on day one of the second Ashes Test.
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IndiaFormer Indian cricketer and MP, Navjot Sidhu, is found guilty of manslaughter.
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ChinaA Chinese researcher for the New York Times loses his appeal in a Beijing court against a three-year jail term for fraud.
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LiberiaLiberia's police, who have been unarmed for three years, are being allowed to carry weapons again.
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Israel, 
West BankIsraeli soldiers shoot and kill two Palestinians, one a 16-year-old, in separate incidents in the West Bank.
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MexicoFelipe Calderon takes over as Mexico's president at a midnight ceremony, ahead of planned opposition protests.
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Sri LankaThe Sri Lankan president's brother escapes a suspected suicide bomb attack in the capital, Colombo, officials say.
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India, United StatesFormer US President Bill Clinton tells the BBC that India is now the epicentre of the global HIV/Aids epidemic.
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RussiaThe health of Russian ex-PM Yegor Gaidar - who has a mystery illness - has improved, a spokesman says.
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Japan, ChinaJapanese war orphans abandoned in China in 1945 are entitled to compensation, a court rules.
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Indian Ocean, IndiaThe first of a planned network of tsunami early warning buoys is being installed in the Indian Ocean.
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SwedenMan Utd will sign Henrik Larsson on loan from Swedish club Helsingborg in January.
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UkraineUkraine's parliament sacks the foreign and interior ministers - key allies of the pro-Western president.
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NetherlandsDutch authorities order 33 sex clubs in Amsterdam's red light district to close over suspected criminal activity.
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MalawiMadonna accepts a court ruling allowing human rights groups to monitor her adoption of a Malawian boy.
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United KingdomA London hospital prepares for a post-mortem examination of the body of poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko.
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ChinaChina relaxes rules for foreign journalists ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, allowing them more reporting freedom.
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NetherlandsThree men and a woman are found guilty in Amsterdam of planning terror attacks on Dutch politicians.
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MexicoRowdy scenes break out in Mexico's Congress an hour before Felipe Calderon is due to be sworn in as president.
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SomaliaSomalia's Islamists reject accusations that they were behind the car bomb on the government base.
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ZimbabweTwo of Zimbabwe's senior bakers start a four-month jail term after being convicted of breaking price controls.
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Argentina, RussiaArgentina's David Nalbandian beats Russian Marat Safin to square the Davis Cup final at 1-1.
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United KingdomA BBC journalist obtains 20 fake and stolen passports in various EU countries, twice using them to enter the UK.
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South AfricaTwo men celebrate South Africa's first gay wedding on the day the law allowing same-sex unions takes effect.
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VenezuelaVenezuelans vote on Sunday to elect their president - here are some key facts about the election.
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Sudan, 
ChadChadian rebels attack the eastern town of Guereda, neighbouring Sudan's war-torn Darfur region.
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NetherlandsPolice arrest a man after a young boy is stabbed to death at a primary school in the Netherlands.
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ColombiaLeft-wing Farc rebels in Colombia have killed 17 soldiers in the north-east of the country, the army says.
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IraqPresident George W Bush is to meet Iraq's most powerful Shia politician in Washington on Monday, officials say.
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PakistanPakistan says it has traced 20 out of 41 missing people whose families allege are being held by spy agencies.
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ItalyAn Italian contact and a relative of dead ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko test positive for polonium-210.
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United StatesThe largest Roman Catholic diocese in the US agrees to pay $60m to settle sexual abuse lawsuits.
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LebanonHundreds of thousands of opposition supporters call on the Lebanese government to quit, at a mass rally in Beirut.
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