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ColombiaA nationwide blackout in Colombia cuts power to commercial centres and causes traffic chaos.
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ChinaChina appoints Yang Jiechi, a former ambassador to Washington, as its new foreign minister.
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United StatesDemocratic contenders for the 2008 US presidential election attack President Bush's Iraq policy in a TV debate.
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Japan, United StatesJapan's PM Shinzo Abe says comments over WWII sex slaves were misunderstood, as his US trip continues.
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EstoniaEstonia removes a Soviet war memorial in Tallinn amid violent clashes, sparking an angry Russian reaction.
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Iraq, United StatesIraq's government says the US Senate's approval of a bill requiring troop withdrawals sends "negative" signals.
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SomaliaMore people have been displaced in Somalia in recent months than anywhere in the world, the UN says.
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United StatesThe US issued a formal diplomatic protest against the ending of the SFO inquiry into BAE, the BBC understands.
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PakistanThe head of a Pakistani theatre group says that she is astonished by a government ban on a play about burkas.
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PakistanPakistan has more death row inmates than any other country, human rights group Amnesty International says.
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Taiwan, ChinaChina's government expresses surprise at Taiwan's rejection of its position on the Olympic torch relay route.
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RussiaA Russian military helicopter crashes in the troubled republic of Chechnya, with 17 people reported killed.
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IraqEx-CIA head George Tenet says there was no proper debate in the run-up to the Iraq war, in a new book.
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RussiaRussia's world-famous musician and human rights defender Mstislav Rostropovich dies aged 80.
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IndiaIndia's largest drugs company, Ranbaxy, sees its net profits surge by nearly 80% in the first quarter of 2007, it says.
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NigeriaImpeached governor Joshua Dariye, who is in hiding, should be reinstated, Nigeria's Supreme Court rules.
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FranceFrance's defeated centrist attacks presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy, blaming him for cancelling a TV debate.
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SomaliaResidents of the Somali capital start to clear away the bodies of those killed in nine days of fierce battles.
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PolandThe EU needs to focus on issues of concern to its citizens, rather than spend years on "abstract constitutional debate", the UK prime minister says.
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United Kingdom, United StatesIndia is now the second-largest source of foreign direct investment in London behind the US, a survey says.
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SpainA Spanish judge charges three US soldiers in connection with the killing of a Spanish journalist in Iraq in 2003.
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United StatesThe dollar hits a new low against the euro on news that the US economy is growing at its slowest rate for four years.
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Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia says it has foiled a plot by militants to carry out suicide air attacks on oil plants and military bases.
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NigeriaNigeria's Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka joins those calling for the presidential election to be cancelled.
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Iraq, United StatesA serving senior American officer criticises the US military leadership over its preparation for and handling of the Iraq war.
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RwandaThe DR Congo army says it has killed 22 Rwandan rebels during an operation to secure a road in the east.
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Russia, United StatesRussian President Vladimir Putin says US missile defence plans raise the risk of "mutual destruction".
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North Korea, Japan, United StatesThe leaders of Japan and the US strengthen calls for North Korea to abandon its nuclear weapons programme.
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United StatesThe US has arrested one of al-Qaeda's top operatives and is holding him at Guantanamo Bay, the Pentagon says.
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NigeriaA Nigerian lesbian goes into hiding from Islamic police with the four women she "married" at a huge ceremony.
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ColombiaLeft-wing rebels in Colombia release video footage of a group of politicians who were abducted five years ago.
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Russia, EstoniaRussia condemns the removal of a Red Army war memorial in Estonia, sparking clashes between police and protesters.
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LiberiaThe United Nations Security Council lifts the ban on the export of diamonds from Liberia it imposed in 2001.
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CanadaCanada unveils its strategy on climate change, but acknowledges it will not meet its Kyoto targets.
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TurkeyTurkey's army warns against questioning the country's secular system after a disputed presidential vote in parliament.
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United StatesHalf a virtual mouse brain is built on a supercomputer by IBM researchers in the United States.
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