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ChinaMillions of migrants are helping to build China's economic success but not seeing any benefits, Amnesty says.
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UgandaA cessation of hostilities between LRA rebels and Uganda's government expires, amid fears of new clashes.
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United States, 
MexicoAn operation against Mexico traffickers leads to 400 arrests and seizes 18 tonnes of drugs, the US says.
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IndiaEight people, including six policemen, die in a landmine explosion in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.
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East Timor, 
ArubaAuthorities urge East Timor rebel leader Alfredo Reinado to surrender, as Australian troops close in on his hideout.
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PakistanPakistan pacemen Shoaib Akhtar and Mohammad Asif are ruled out of the World Cup with injuries.
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United StatesSenator John McCain officially announces he will seek the Republican nomination for the US presidency in 2008.
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United StatesUS car giant Ford says its restructuring programme aimed at revitalising the company will cost $11bn.
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Uganda, 
SomaliaA small advance team of African Union troops arrive in the southern Somali town of Baidoa, say local officials.
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RussiaEurope's top human rights official says the pro-Russian authorities in Chechnya are systematically using torture.
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United StatesPulitzer Prize winning American historian and influential Cold War thinker Arthur M Schlesinger Jr dies.
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ChinaChina's parliament is to consider reforming a law that allows incarceration without trial, state media reports.
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FranceThe largest polar research programme for half a century, lasting two years, is launched in Paris.
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France, 
GermanyFrench and German Airbus staff stop work in a second day of protests after the firm announced 10,000 job cuts.
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JapanJapanese meteorologists say Tokyo has had its first winter without snow since records began in 1876.
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AustriaThe EU opens an agency in Vienna to help combat discrimination on the basis of race, gender or religion.
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Iraq, 
JordanIraq's president is "almost back to normal" health, his doctor says, four days after being flown to Jordan.
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GabonA pioneering gorilla rehabilitation project in Gabon hopes to help gorillas mate and attract more tourists to West Africa, Sarah Monaghan reports.
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MacauMisha Glenny reports from Macau in South China which has fast become the new gambling capital of the world.
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IndiaPolice in the Indian city of Bangalore say stray dogs have killed a child, the second such case in recent months.
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DenmarkDozens of people are arrested in Denmark as violence erupts amid a police operation to evict squatters.
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AfghanistanSilvio Berlusconi says his coalition will support Romano Prodi's government in a coming vote on Afghanistan.
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IndiaOne of the two men accused of the murder of at least 19 women and children in India makes a confession.
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IndiaIndia's top court orders a probe of the wealth of Mulayam Singh Yadav, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh.
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NigeriaA proposed Nigerian law banning same-sex marriages is a threat to democracy, says Human Rights Watch.
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IraqAt least five people are killed by a car bomb attack on an Iraqi police officer's wedding, local police say.
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GuatemalaA fifth Guatemalan policeman is held over the killing of three Salvadorean politicians near Guatemala City.
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Israel, 
West BankIsraeli troops in the West Bank push on with their search for militants, trading fire with Palestinian gunmen.
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United StatesA delegation of Inuit travel to Washington to argue that the nation's climate policy violates human rights.
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Somalia, UgandaUganda's president says his soldiers being deployed to Somalia will play a supportive role but will not impose peace.
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ChinaChina is to introduce steps to punish famous and wealthy violators of its one-child policy, senior officials say.
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United KingdomThe head of the IOC's watchdog for the 2012 London Olympics says he is happy with preparations, including the budget.
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SenegalSenegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has won re-election for a second term, poll officials say.
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Aruba, United StatesThe US files terror charges against an Australian held at Guantanamo Bay without trial for five years.
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United StatesColumbine High School, the site of the 1999 US school massacre, is evacuated after a bomb threat.
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United StatesThe head of the US army's flagship military hospital loses his post, amid a scandal over the neglect of wounded soldiers.
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SpainSpain allows transsexuals who have not had a sex change to alter their gender on their official documents.
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SpainA Basque separatist inmate ends his hunger strike after being moved from Madrid to a hospital in his home region.
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United States, ChinaChina hits back at the US over calls for greater transparency in Beijing's military spending.
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Japan, 
Hong KongA drop in US markets helps push global markets lower for a third day, fanning fears of a sustained sell-off.
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Afghanistan, United StatesThe US says opium production in Afghanistan reached record levels last year, undermining the fight against the Taleban.
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TurkeyTurkey orders an investigation into claims that the jailed Kurdish separatist leader was poisoned.
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