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More than 100 people, including MPs and former ministers, should face corruption charges, an inquiry says.
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A Spanish court grants bail to outlawed Basque leader Arnaldo Otegi, a week after an Eta ceasefire.
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Parts of Sri Lanka hold local elections which observers say will test public opinion on the fragile peace process.
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A suicide bomber dies in an attempted attack on a foreign military convoy in Afghanistan, police say.
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Marcos Pontes becomes the first Brazilian in space after a successful launch aboard a Russian rocket.
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The Australian government says it will oppose any new laws that legalise gay and lesbian civil unions.
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Prominent Hindi writer Manohar Shyam Joshi dies in the Indian capital, Delhi, at the age of 73.
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Liberia's ex-President Charles Taylor, facing war crimes charges in Sierra Leone, may not be tried for months.
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British Prime Minister Tony Blair promises to work closely with Indonesia in fighting Islamic terrorism.
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George W Bush arrives in Cancun for a summit with Mexico and Canada likely to focus on immigration and trade.
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Zimbabwean President Mugabe hopes to import oil from Equatorial Guinea, Africa's third-largest producer.
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Opponents of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra hold a final rally before Sunday's election.
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China is to spend more than $1.2bn cleaning up a river where a toxic spill caused water to be cut off to millions.
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Conflict in Sudan's Darfur region is still said to be making thousands flee their homes each month.
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Canada's refugee board will hear the asylum appeal of a US soldier who fled there to avoid serving in Iraq.
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India, Brazil and South Africa pledge to improve trade ties in an effort to strengthen their bargaining power at global trade talks.
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Floods force thousands to leave their homes in the Czech Republic and Prague is on alert.
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Shoaib Malik hits his first Test century as Pakistan draw the first Test against Sri Lanka.
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India's authorities are urged to relent after shutting a popular community radio in Bihar for not having a licence.
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Condoleezza Rice says the US may be ready to back the Kadima party in its plan to define Israel's final borders.
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Sierra Leone asks The Hague to host the trial of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor, Dutch officials say.
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Spain's parliament approves a definitive version of a plan for greater independence for Catalonia.
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Gunmen ambush and kill eight workers at Iraq's largest oil refinery in the northern town of Baiji, police say.
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The United Arab Emirates is preparing to allow labourers to form trade unions and pursue collective bargaining.
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A US reporter held hostage in Iraq is freed more than two months after being seized in Baghdad.
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Jamaica prepares to swear in its first female Prime Minister, Portia Simpson Miller.
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A witness in the case of an alleged bombing campaign in the UK says he plotted to kill the president of Pakistan.
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Four Pakistani women graduate as fighter pilots for the first time, ending years of male-only tradition.
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An MPs report into a major corruption scandal says Vice-President Moody Awori is involved and should be tried.
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Hundreds of Kurds clash with police as street violence spreads in south-eastern Turkey.
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HIV infection rates have fallen by a third in the worst-hit regions of southern India, research suggests.
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Ex-South African President Nelson Mandela calls for more help for thousands of former political prisoners, in poverty.
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Mediators tell the Hamas-led Palestinian government that aid could be affected if it does not recognise Israel.
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Cyclone Glenda crosses Australia's north-west coast where thousands of residents are riding it out.
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Russia's gas monopoly Gazprom says neighbour Belarus will have to pay five times more for the fuel.
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A youth employment law that has sparked protests across France is legal, says the top constitutional body.
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Iran has 30 days to return to nuclear talks or face isolation, foreign ministers from six major powers warn.
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The party of acting Israeli PM Ehud Olmert wins 29 seats in elections, one more than first thought, final results say.
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A passenger ferry with dozens of foreign tourists sinks off the coast of Bahrain, local officials say.
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A Palestinian bomber has killed himself and three Israelis outside a settlement in the West Bank, officials say.
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Iran is not an imminent threat and sanctions would be a bad idea, the UN nuclear watchdog chief warns.
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