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GermanyMinisters from G8 nations meet in Germany to discuss a global response to climate change.
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United StatesThis year's winter in the northern hemisphere was the warmest since records began in 1880, US experts say.
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Iraq, United StatesA US marine, charged with the murder of Iraqi civilians in Haditha, says he would do the same again.
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IndiaThe death toll in Thursday's attack on security forces by Maoist rebels in central India rises to 55.
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JapanA corporate scandal that has rocked Japan ends in a guilty verdict for the colourful head of internet firm Livedoor.
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ChinaChina confirms plans to create an investment company for its $1 trillion foreign currency reserves.
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FranceA French oil worker held hostage in the Niger Delta region since February has been freed, officials say.
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FijiForeign ministers from the Pacific Islands Forum call on Fiji's military regime to restore democracy within 18 months.
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Japan, United StatesMystery surrounds an FBI raid on the North American headquarters of Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways.
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ChinaChina's parliament ends its annual two-week session by passing a law boosting private property rights.
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Nigeria, Niger, FranceA French oil worker held hostage in the Niger Delta region since February has been freed, officials say.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoTensions are high in DR Congo with a deadline for guards loyal to a former rebel leader to disarm set to expire.
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FranceA French doctor gets a one-year suspended jail term for poisoning a terminally ill cancer patient.
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Iraq, United StatesDemocratic senators fail to pass legislation to try to force a timetable for a withdrawal from Iraq.
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MacauSouth Korea's Red Cross is to resume fertiliser shipments to the North, after a recently agreed nuclear deal.
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JapanTokyo again says it has found no evidence of wartime sex slave coercion, deepening controversy on the issue.
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NigeriaNigeria's vice-president takes the electoral commission to court after it barred him from April's presidential election.
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BoliviaMoves are afoot in Bolivia to try to stop international companies using the word coca in their names.
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LebanonThe chief investigator into the death of Lebanon's ex PM says there is progress on a possible motive for the killing.
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South AfricaSouth Africa's health minister's liver transplant was "most urgent", a doctor says, after queue-jumping claims.
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IranIran's leader vows to continue his country's nuclear work as the UN drafts new sanctions over the programme.
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IndiaA strike called by opposition parties over the shooting by police of protesting farmers hits India's West Bengal state.
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BeninBenin's President Yayi Boni survives an ambush by gunmen during a campaign tour, officials say.
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ZimbabweZimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai leaves hospital after allegedly being beaten in police custody.
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United KingdomEleven detainees escape from a UK military prison in Basra, most of them by "swapping" with visitors, the army says.
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SomaliaSeven people are killed in a suspected bombing attack on the outskirts of Somalia's capital, Mogadishu.
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United Kingdom, United StatesThe death of a UK soldier after a US pilot opened fire in Iraq was unlawful and criminal, a coroner rules.
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PakistanProtesters defy security forces to rally for Pakistan's suspended top judge as police storm a TV station.
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FranceAt least 11 candidates are set to run in the French presidential election, after meeting the deadline.
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Poland, United StatesThe German chancellor urges Poland to back her efforts to get an EU constitution adopted by 2009.
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CambodiaJudges resolve most procedural issues for a Khmer Rouge tribunal in Cambodia, but key differences remain.
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SpainEU regulators receive Spain's response to its complaints over conditions imposed on E.ON's bid for electricity firm Endesa.
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NigeriaNigeria puts its security forces on full alert fearing pre-election violence after a key candidate is disqualified.
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Afghanistan, United StatesUS forces in Afghanistan deny reports that they were responsible for shooting Afghan policemen.
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Gaza StripPalestinian gunmen attack a vehicle carrying a UN aid official in the Gaza Strip, but no casualties are reported.
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Iraq, United Kingdom, United StatesThe US State Department says the "friendly fire" death of a British soldier in Iraq was a tragic accident.
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MexicoMexican police seize what they say is one of the biggest amounts of cash confiscated in an anti-drug raid.
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United StatesEx-CIA agent Valerie Plame says senior US officials "recklessly" revealed her secret identity in 2003.
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NetherlandsHerschelle Gibbs makes World Cup history by smashing six sixes off an over as they make 353-3 against the Netherlands.
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New Zealand, United KingdomScott Styris puts in a match-winning display with bat and ball as New Zealand beat England by six wickets in their Group C match.
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SpainCampaign group WWF urges a boycott of Spanish winter strawberries which "damage the environment".
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IsraelEgyptian police end a protest sparked by an Israeli film taken as proof of killings of Egyptian POWs in 1967.
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