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NepalTiger conservation experts meet in Nepal to discuss the future of the endangered species.
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United StatesThe worst shooting rampage in US history, at a university in Virginia, leaves 33 people dead.
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France, 
United KingdomEurope fails to punish France for overfishing tuna but penalises Britain for catching mackerel, UK officials say.
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SudanUN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomes Sudan's decision to allow 3,000 UN troops in Darfur.
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ChinaAt least 33 people are trapped in a coal mine in Henan province, central China, according to state media.
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ChinaMore than 100 casinos along China's borders close due to a major crackdown, Chinese media reports.
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AfghanistanFour Nepalis and an Afghan are reported killed when a bomb blows up a UN vehicle in southern Afghanistan.
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RussiaDeliberate safety violations are blamed for a Siberian mine disaster that killed at least 108 people.
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BangladeshBangladeshi police release one of former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's sons as signs grow she will go into exile.
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RussiaRussia starts building the world's first floating nuclear plant, to power an Arctic naval shipyard.
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IraqThe UN calls on Iraq's neighbours not to close their borders to refugees, and other states to do more.
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ZimbabweArchbishop Pius Ncube says he may lose his life opposing Zimbabwe's leader, but the church has "a prophetic role".
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NigeriaNigerian Vice-President Atiku Abubakar can stand in Saturday's presidential poll, the election commission says.
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Egypt, 
IsraelEgyptian authorities say they have arrested an engineer from the state nuclear agency for spying for Israel.
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United StatesSurvivors of campus shootings in Virginia that left 33 dead criticise the university's handling of the situation.
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MexicoMexican police investigate an outbreak of drug-related killings which have left at least 20 dead.
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United StatesUS author Cormac McCarthy gets the Pulitzer prize for fiction, while Ornette Coleman is honoured for music.
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India, United StatesAn Indian-born professor is among those killed in a massacre at a US university, his relatives confirm.
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Egypt, IsraelEgyptian authorities say they have arrested an engineer from the state nuclear agency for spying for Israel.
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PakistanGovernment ministers in Pakistan give conflicting accounts over ex-PM Benazir Bhutto's possible return.
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UkraineUkraine's constitutional court examines the legality of a presidential decree dissolving parliament.
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West BankThousands of Palestinians hold rallies in the West Bank and Gaza to mark the annual Prisoners Day.
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United KingdomThe UK's Archbishop of York holds a prayer vigil for abducted BBC Gaza reporter Alan Johnston.
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NigeriaAn armed Nigerian Islamist group storms a police station in the northern city of Kano, killing at least 13 people.
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India, United StatesAn Indian-born professor is among those killed in a massacre at a US university, his relatives confirm.
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United StatesConcerns about the pace of US inflation ease slightly after figures showed a decline in a key gauge of price growth.
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NigeriaThe BBC's Senan Murray looks at how violence lies close beneath the surface at election time in central Nigeria.
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Italy, United StatesA US soldier is tried in a Rome court over the killing of an Italian intelligence agent in Baghdad in 2005.
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MalawiPop star Madonna returns to the Malawian orphanage where the boy she is adopting used to live.
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PakistanPakistan great Imran Khan backs Shoaib Malik as the best choice to take over as national team captain.
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India, 
South KoreaSouth Korea celebrates being named host of the 2014 Asian Games in over the Indian city of Delhi.
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South Africa, United KingdomEngland crash out of the World Cup after slumping to a feeble nine-wicket defeat by South Africa in Barbados.
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JapanThe mayor of the Japanese city of Nagasaki dies hours after being shot, police say.
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United StatesPolice name a student who shot dead at least 30 people at a US university as Cho Seung-hui, from South Korea.
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Iraq, United StatesThe US Marine Corps drops charges against a marine over the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005.
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South Korea, 
North KoreaThe US says it has no official confirmation that North Korea is starting to shut down its main nuclear reactor.
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