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Canadian police were warned of a plot to blow up an airliner months before the 1985 Air India attack, an inquiry hears.
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The number of people killed in terror attacks in 2006 rises by 40%, says the US State Department.
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Veteran UK radio presenter John Humphrys honours missing BBC correspondent Alan Johnston.
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Two men are detained in Australia, accused of fundraising for Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Prosecutors begin an appeal against a decision to clear a Japanese businessman of Lucie Blackman's death.
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China leads objections to a major report on climate economics being discussed by the IPCC in Bangkok.
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US researchers say apes communicate using gestures, shedding light on how human language developed.
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Police arrest 30 people over animal rights extremism, in a series of dawn raids across the UK and Europe.
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There have been simultaneous bomb attacks at three railway stations in Bangladesh, say officials.
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Nearly 600 people are arrested during a May Day rally in Turkey, where political tensions are running high.
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Protesters clash with police in a rare demonstration over illegal labour in the Chinese territory of Macau.
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Police arrest 30 people over animal rights extremism in a series of raids across the UK and Europe.
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Sri Lanka's World Cup team is stranded in London after airline suspends flights in wake of Tamil Tiger air raids.
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Men in Guinea attack women they accuse of doing a popular Ivorian buttock-swinging dance.
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Russian MPs visit the controversial monument of a Soviet soldier - now at a new location in Estonia's capital.
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Pressure is mounting for an inquiry into UK secret services following the end of the country's biggest terror trial.
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Jean-Marie Le Pen tells supporters not to vote for either candidate in Sunday's French presidential run-off.
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A top Iranian becomes the most senior official to visit Iraq since the 2003 war, ahead of an Iraq security conference.
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Six foreign oil workers are snatched in Nigeria's oil-rich south, as a governor's mother is also kidnapped.
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Nigerian police deploy across the country ahead of planned protests over disputed elections.
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A minister resigns in protest against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's handling of Israel's war against Lebanon.
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The cost of maize, a staple food in Zimbabwe, is to rise seven-fold, the government says.
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At least 30 civilians are killed during the latest Nato-led offensive in Afghanistan, police and officials say.
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The head of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed, according to intelligence reports received by Iraq's interior ministry.
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Thousands of Iranian workers gather at a Labour Day rally in Tehran, demanding the resignation of the labour minister.
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Turkey's constitutional court annuls a presidential election but the government vows to hold a new vote.
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The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa wins this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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Iraqi insurgents deny reports that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been killed in an "internal battle".
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The US says it will give N Korea more time to act on its nuclear disarmament pledge following talks with Japan.
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The governor of the state of New Jersey, injured in a car crash, pays a fine for not wearing a seat belt during the accident.
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