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Texas sheriffs say US Vice President Dick Cheney will face no charges after he shot a man on a hunting trip.
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UN Secretary General Kofi Annan backs a report saying the US should close down its Guantanamo camp.
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The US secretary of state accuses Iran of being a "central banker" for terrorism around the world.
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Colombia's leader Alvaro Uribe meets President Bush in Washington to discuss new trade agreements.
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The Church of England is criticised for voting to review investments in firms whose products are used by Israel in the occupied territories.
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Japan police target firms suspected of exporting goods to North Korea that could be used for biological weapons.
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A Tamil Tiger rebel team is due to leave for Geneva for crucial talks with Sri Lanka's government.
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Australian PM John Howard leads tributes for flamboyant tycoon Kerry Packer at a state memorial service.
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A woman is arrested in Japan on suspicion of stabbing two five-year-old children to death.
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The US vows to pursue China "aggressively" to clamp down on piracy and open up its markets.
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Police in Indonesia arrest two people and seize some 3,000 detonators on the island of Borneo.
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Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer says England should focus on pace, not spin, to win their Test series in India.
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At least 12 die as drought in East Africa leads to fighting over water resources between Somali tribes in Ethiopia.
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The US and other countries in the region welcome the declaration of Rene Preval as Haiti's president.
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Police deploy in Kenya's capital as anti-graft protesters stage a banned demonstration seeking resignations.
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The UK and German leaders vow to keep up diplomatic pressure on Iran over its nuclear programme.
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African countries lose about $148bn each year to corruption, Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says.
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Indian cricket chiefs sell global telecast rights for the next four years for the massive sum of £352 million.
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Colombia launches air raids on a park where suspected left-wing rebels have been attacking police and soldiers.
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The leaders of Indonesia and East Timor meet for the first time since a damning report on Indonesia's colonial rule.
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French police arrest 13 people suspected of kidnapping and torturing of a young man to death.
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu adds his voice to those calling for the US to close its Guantanamo Bay prison camp.
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The Israeli cabinet delays until Sunday a decision on its approach to a Hamas-led Palestinian administration.
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Six former fighters being integrated into DR Congo's army die of hunger after receiving no rations.
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Scientists meeting in the US predict there will be 100 million more hungry people across the world by 2015.
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Rwanda's Supreme Court rejects ex-Rwandan President Bizimungu's appeal against a 15-year jail term.
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The US says Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez is one of the biggest dangers facing the region.
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The election commission in Belarus releases the names of the four candidates who will run for president in March.
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A Nigerian militant commander in the oil-rich south threatens "total war" unless foreign oil companies leave by midnight.
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Turkey rejects further Israeli criticism of its decision to hold talks with the Palestinian militant group, Hamas.
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Hundreds of villagers in the Philippines are feared buried by a landslide, but thick mud hampers rescue efforts.
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Iraq confirms that a 39-year-old man who died in January, was killed by the H5N1 strain of bird flu.
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Pakistan arrests a radical leader and more than 100 others to stop protests over the Muhammad cartoons.
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The Football Association insists it has not approached anyone about becoming the new England coach.
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The first cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu are found in Egypt, mostly around the capital, Cairo.
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Hundreds of people are buried under a torrent of mud after a mountainside collapses on a Philippines village.
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The EU's foreign policy chief wants Israel to delay imposing further restrictions on a Hamas-led Palestinian Authority.
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Denmark closes its embassy in Pakistan after violent protests in the country over the Muhammad cartoon row.
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Harry Whittington, who was shot by the US vice-president on a quail hunting trip, is discharged from hospital.
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The US is losing the propaganda war against al-Qaeda and other enemies, its defence chief warns.
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Nine reported dead as Libyan demonstrators clash with police in a cartoon protest outside Italian consulate.
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Italy's Supreme Court rules the rape of a child was less serious because she was sexually active.
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Britain miss out on medals in the skeleton while their curlers suffer mixed fortunes.
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Merck lands a court victory as a Federal jury clears the firm of any responsibility for the death of a 53-year-old man.
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The age of retirement should rise to 85 by 2050, to cope with longer life expectancy, a US scientist says.
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