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United StatesLouis Farrakhan, leader of US Muslim group Nation of Islam, attacks US foreign policy in his final major public speech.
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Hong KongThe Hong Kong public is invited to send questions for a controlled debate ahead of chief executive elections.
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NauruAn obesity survey shows the South Pacific is the world's most overweight region, with Nauru the fattest nation.
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ArubaJohn Howard says he will not step in to block the planned $8.8bn takeover of Australian national airline Qantas.
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Italy, 
IndiaIndia's top court seeks clarification on the arrest of an Italian businessman named in a bribery case.
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United StatesUS mob drama The Departed wins four Oscars, with major acting awards for Dame Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker.
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IndonesiaDozens of people are still feared to be missing after a fire on board a ferry in Indonesia four days ago.
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GuatemalaFour Guatemalan policemen held over the murders of three Salvadorean politicians are shot dead in prison.
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IraqA suicide bomber who killed 42 people in an attack in Baghdad on Sunday was a woman, security officials say.
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SenegalVotes are being counted in Senegal with partial results so far giving President Abdoulaye Wade the lead.
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GuineaTrade unions in Guinea say they will end a general strike after President Conte agreed to replace his prime minister.
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SomaliaA US warship is heading towards the Somali coast, say UN staff, after pirates hijacked a food aid ship.
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Afghanistan, 
United KingdomThe defence secretary is due to confirm the deployment of an extra 1,000 UK troops to Afghanistan.
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FranceFormer Tour de France winner Jan Ullrich announces his retirement from cycling.
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United States, 
North Korea, 
MacauThe US is ready to end a row with North Korea over a Macau bank which threatened nuclear talks, officials say.
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EcuadorEcuador steps up its fight against EU import duties on bananas by asking the World Trade Organization to rule on the issue.
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Iran, United StatesThe US Pentagon has set up a special group to plan possible attacks on Iran, journalist Seymour Hersh reports.
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SenegalSenegalese voters await the first official results, as President Wade's supporters claim a strong lead.
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United StatesCivil rights activist Al Sharpton reveals he descended from a slave owned by relatives of late US Senator Strom Thurmond.
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CambodiaCambodia's PM says Khmer Rouge victims' remains should remain on display rather than be cremated.
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Pakistan, United StatesUS Vice-President Dick Cheney urges Pakistan to do more to curb the Taleban on a surprise visit to Islamabad.
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CyprusA plan to pay Cypriot women a bonus to have large families could to an "epidemic" of abortions, an MP warns.
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IsraelA Palestinian man is shot dead and another wounded in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Nablus.
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BangladeshAt least two people are killed in a fire in a multi-storey building in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka.
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JordanRadical Islamic cleric Abu Qatada loses his appeal against deportation to Jordan, in a landmark case.
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BotswanaAt least two people are crushed to death and others injured as part of a hotel collapses in Rio de Janeiro.
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Saudi Arabia, FranceAt least three French nationals are shot dead in Saudi Arabia, according to diplomatic and media reports.
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Trinidad and Tobago, 
BoliviaAround 90,000 face being evacuated from the Bolivian city of Trinidad amid rising floodwaters.
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IraqA bomb explodes inside an Iraqi ministry injuring the visiting vice-president and killing five other people.
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IraqEgypt stops transmission of a private Iraqi TV station which glorifies the Sunni insurgency in Iraq.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
Serbia and MontenegroThe UN's top court clears Serbia of genocide in the 1990s Bosnia war but says it failed to prevent the Srebrenica massacre.
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GermanySeven suspected neo-Nazis go on trial in eastern Germany over the burning of a copy of Anne Frank's diary.
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East Timor, IndonesiaIndonesia shuts its border with East Timor after rebels capture weapons in a raid on an East Timorese police post.
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GuatemalaA riot at a Guatemala jail ends after four police held there over the murder of three politicians are shot dead.
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Iran, United KingdomKey powers end 'productive' talks on Iran's nuclear ambitions, saying work has begun on a new UN resolution.
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IraqThe Iraqi cabinet approves a draft law allowing Iraq's oil revenues to be split between ethnic groups.
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ZambiaA DNA trail has helped investigators trace the largest recent shipment of illegal ivory to elephants in Zambia.
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Russia, 
ChinaThe explosion of a Russian rocket stage in space may have created as much debris as the destruction of a satellite by China last month.
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