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EthiopiaMarion Jones wins her third consecutive comeback race in New York, while Ethiopia's Meseret Defar sets a new women's world 5,000m record.
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RomaniaProtesters trying to break up a gay rights march in Bucharest clash with riot police who make dozens of arrests.
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Serbia and MontenegroMontenegro formally announces its independence from Serbia in a special session of parliament.
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BoliviaBolivia's president begins a programme to redistribute land, as owners pledge to defend their estates.
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IranIran's president says he will never bargain away the right to produce nuclear fuel but agrees to study a proposal.
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United StatesA man suspected of killing seven family members in Indianapolis gives himself up to police.
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CanadaTwelve men and five youths are charged with planning "al-Qaeda-inspired" attacks, police in Toronto confirm.
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Zimbabwe, 
Sudan, 
ChinaA top diplomat defends China's growing economic role in Africa, including Zimbabwe and Sudan.
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Sri LankaPolice in Sri Lanka say eight Tamil Tiger rebels have escaped from a jail in Batticaloa in the east.
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East TimorThere is renewed violence in a district of East Timor's capital Dili, as the crisis there rumbles on.
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Iraq, 
RussiaThe fate of four abducted Russian embassy staff is unclear amid conflicting reports from Iraq officials.
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United KingdomThere are conflicting reports about the shooting of a man during a huge police anti-terrorism raid in east London.
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PakistanPakistan bans The Da Vinci Code film, branded as blasphemous by the country's culture minister.
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NigerAll eight foreign workers abducted from an oil rig in Nigeria are released, UK officials say.
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Vietnam, United StatesUS Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld visits Vietnam, in a sign of growing military ties between two former foes.
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VenezuelaVenezuelan leader Hugo Chavez opens a film studio aimed at curbing the dominance of Hollywood.
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NepalNepal's Supreme Court orders the release of three former ministers in the government of King Gyanendra.
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IraqAt least 20 people are pulled from their cars and shot dead in Iraq, as a vote on key ministers is postponed.
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IsraelThe Hamas PM rejects a threatened referendum on a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict.
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IndonesiaThe World Health Organization confirms that a boy who died in Indonesia last week was a victim of bird flu.
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SomaliaThe Islamic Courts militia takes a key town near the Somali capital from one of the warlords it is fighting.
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TunisiaEight people die when a wall collapses at a busy market in southern Tunisia, officials say.
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Iran, United StatesIran's top leader says energy supplies could be disrupted if the US makes a "wrong move" in their dispute.
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ChinaAll 40 people on board a military plane were killed when it crashed on Saturday, the state news agency reports.
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Egypt, IsraelIsraeli PM Ehud Olmert says he is ready to meet Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to discuss peace.
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GreeceTwo prisoners escape in a helicopter from a high security jail in the Greek capital, Athens.
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RussiaIran allows leading dissident Akbar Ganji to leave the country to receive a journalism award in Russia.
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AfghanistanThe Nato commander in Afghanistan pledges new tactics to win the support of disenchanted Afghans.
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Gaza StripFive Palestinians are killed in two outbreaks of violence in the Gaza strip - possibly involving rival armed factions.
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South Georgia and the South Sandwich IslandsAlbatrosses on South Georgia are being pushed to the brink of extinction, according to research.
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