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ItalyThe Getty Museum in Los Angeles agrees to hand back priceless antiquities which Italy says were looted.
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PakistanPolice in Pakistan say they have killed a suicide bomber after the man failed to detonate his explosives.
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ChinaLightning killed 141 people in China last month, the highest number since records began, officials say.
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Iraq, 
United Kingdom, 
United StatesThe US and UK circulate a draft UN resolution, which would broaden the organisation's role in Iraq.
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IndiaJournalists in the Indian state of Manipur refuse to bring out their newspapers in protest against threats by rebels.
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Czech RepublicBritish stag and hen parties make the Czech Republic a consular-assistance hotspot, government figures suggest.
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United StatesUS President Bush orders close adviser Karl Rove not to testify before Congress on the sacking of federal attorneys.
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ColombiaThe father of a soldier kidnapped by Colombian rebels a decade ago completes a march across the country.
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RussiaAt least two people are killed in a series of earthquakes on Sakhalin island in Russia's far east.
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UgandaAn outbreak of the Marburg virus - a rare Ebola-like fever - is confirmed by Ugandan authorities.
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Canada, United StatesConrad Black cannot travel to Canada while he awaits sentencing in his fraud trial, a US judge rules.
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France, 
RwandaThe decision to free two Rwandan men in France may be politically motivated, a Rwandan official says.
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United StatesAt least seven die after a bridge in Minneapolis over the Mississippi river collapses, hurling cars into the water.
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IndiaThe government in India's Sikkim state threatens action against tribes people who have been on a hunger strike.
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West BankUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signs a deal with the Palestinians to reform their security services.
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SomaliaAt least eight people die in fighting between insurgents and goverment troops in the Somali capital.
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ItalyMourners pay their last respects to film-maker Michelangelo Antonioni at his funeral in Italy.
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VietnamA younger and smaller Cabinet aimed at moving forward Vietnam's economic reforms is approved by legislators.
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Libya, 
BulgariaBulgaria is to divert $57m of debt owed by Libya to a fund for the families of Libyan children infected with HIV.
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EthiopiaEthiopia dismisses claims that its security forces are barring aid and removing people from the Ogaden region.
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IranTwo men are hanged in Tehran for murdering a judge, the first public executions in Iran's capital since 2002.
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Pakistan, United KingdomUK officials says they are being denied access to a Briton held in Pakistan on security grounds.
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BotswanaA top anti-terror officer misled the public after the shooting of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, a report finds.
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Sierra LeoneSierra Leone's war crimes court convicts two ex-militia leaders who fought the rebels in the civil war.
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RussiaExplorers plant a Russian flag on the seabed below the North Pole to further Moscow's Arctic claims.
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South Korea, 
North KoreaThe Taleban agree to face-to-face talks with South Korea to discuss the fate of 21 Korean hostages.
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United States, ChinaFisher Price recalls nearly one million Chinese-made toys over fears their paint may contain too much lead.
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Puerto RicoPuerto Rican officials make a wave of arrests targeting doctors who they say are practising medicine illegally.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoAt least 100 people have died in a train crash in central DR Congo, with passengers still trapped, officials say.
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Iraq, United StatesA US marine is found guilty of kidnapping and conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian near Baghdad in 2006.
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United StatesSustained oil prices close to $80 a barrel could hit US economic growth, Energy Secretary Sam Bodman says.
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Iraq, United StatesA US marine sergeant is found guilty of murder and conspiring to murder an Iraqi civilian near Baghdad in 2006.
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United StatesThe US Senate votes for a bill to tighten rules on lobbying in what Democrats hail as a landmark measure.
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