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Investigators examine the wreckage of a passenger plane which crash-landed in Indonesia, killing 22 people.
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Political tension is rising in Ecuador over a controversial plan for a referendum on rewriting the constitution.
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The American astronaut charged with attempting to kidnap her love rival is sacked by Nasa.
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Laos officials confirm the nation's first definite human bird flu fatality, after a 15-year-old girl dies from H5N1.
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China unveils a new law to increase protection of private property rights - the first to cover individual assets.
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Most of the 33 Iranian women activists arrested earlier in the week in Tehran have been freed from jail.
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A US man is convicted of murdering a nine-year-old girl in a case that sparked a national drive on sex crimes.
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Jordan's King Abdullah tells the US Congress that America must back an urgent drive for Middle East peace.
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An extra 2,200 military police are to head to Iraq to support the US security drive in the capital, the Pentagon says.
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Japan-North Korea talks on normalising ties break up early without agreement, with no new date being set.
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Norwegians fathered by German soldiers in World War II go to court in Strasbourg demanding compensation.
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An ex-US navy sailor is charged with passing classified data to a website allegedly linked to al-Qaeda.
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The government announces improvements to the terms and conditions of Gurkhas in the British army.
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An elderly Palestinian dies in a crush and several people are injured by gunfire on the Gaza-Egypt border.
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Russia resumes regular passenger flights between Moscow and war-damaged Grozny in Chechnya.
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DR Congo's top atomic energy official is held after allegations that a large quantity of uranium is missing.
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After five years in Guantanamo Bay, Australian detainee David Hicks faces a US military court on 20 March.
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A suspected Sunni militant is shot dead in the north-western Pakistani town of Dera Ismail Khan.
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Imogen Foulkes finds that the Swiss people's love affair with the national airline, Swissair, has ended in humiliation.
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At least nine restaurant diners die in an attack aimed at new African Union peacekeepers in Somalia's capital.
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The IAEA approves cuts in technical aid to Iran in line with UN sanctions imposed in December.
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A man charged with recruiting Madrid train bombers is extradited to Spain, says Scotland Yard.
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Japan's ruling party is to hold a new inquiry into the use of sex slaves by the army during World War II.
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Brazil mounts a tight security operation ahead of US President Bush's visit to Sao Paulo.
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A Nigerian judge rules that the electoral commission cannot disqualify candidates - a legal victory for the vice-president.
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Emma Jane Kirby watches France's presidential hopefuls try to establish their rural credentials.
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The US coast guard stages a huge exercise to prepare for a possible mass Cuban exodus.
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Police in Tehran prevent protests outside parliament to mark International Women's Day.
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An appeal court reverses the impeachment of controversial Nigerian state governor Joshua Dariye.
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The top US general in Iraq says force alone will not end the conflict, as political reconciliation is "critical".
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The Swedish authorities seek new powers to spy on any e-mail or phone call into or out of the country.
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Unidentified gunmen shoot dead a German aid worker in the northern Afghan province of Sar-e-Pol.
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France fly-half Frederic Michalak is back in training four months after undergoing knee surgery.
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Israel's human rights group B'Tselem accuses the Israeli army of recently using two Palestinians as human shields.
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The son of Bangladesh's former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia is held as part of Dhaka's anti-corruption drive.
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Thousands of civilians flee heavy fighting between troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Police in India seize a rare copy of the Koran which may have belonged to Mughal emperor Aurangzeb.
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Israel's PM Ehud Olmert said its Lebanon war strategy was drawn up months in advance, a newspaper claims.
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Democrats in the US Congress propose legislation requiring all US troops to leave Iraq by August 2008.
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A Congolese minister says an international network to illegally use the country's uranium has been broken up.
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