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Pope Benedict XVI promotes traditional Catholic family values at a youth rally in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Serbia takes over the chair of Europe's leading rights body as concerns mount over its political direction.
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The US Congress and the White House agree on new standards for countries with free trade deals with the US.
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Two human rights lawyers are jailed in Vietnam, in the latest of a series of cases against political activists.
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The Australian government steps up a campaign to persuade the ICC to take action against Zimbabwe.
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The House of Representatives passes a bill to limit funding for the Iraq war, but President Bush says he will veto it.
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Performers and marchers in India mark the 150th anniversary of the landmark revolt against the British.
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Zimbabwe dismisses Western objections to its appointment to head a key UN body because of its rights record.
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Israel plans to build new Jewish areas in East Jerusalem, an area regarded as occupied territory.
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The Chinese health ministry wants to station police in hospitals to protect medical workers from attacks by patients.
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Four children of Dulmatin, one of S E Asia's most wanted militants, are reportedly found in the Philippines.
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Clashes in the Gaza Strip leave six Palestinians injured, a day after major security operation began.
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Britain's top envoy to Pakistan expresses concern that extremists in the UK are being trained in Pakistan.
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A little-known firm pays 100bn roubles for the final assets, including HQ, of Russia's bankrupt oil firm Yukos.
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African airline staff are being lured overseas, an aviation official says, as Cameroon's crash probe continues.
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Generals from North and South Korea agree to the first train crossing over their border in more than 50 years.
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Jose Ramos-Horta wins an estimated 70% of E Timor's presidential vote, but the result is not yet official.
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Documents are reported to have surfaced in Japan contradicting the PM's denial of forced sex slavery in WWII.
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The Spanish parliament passes a law to rein in property speculators and bring property prices under control.
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World champion Fernando Alonso's McLaren is well clear of the field as he sets the fastest time in Friday practice at the Spanish Grand Prix.
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Eleven officers involved in the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes will not face disciplinary action.
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Gordon Brown says he has the "ideas and vision" to govern Britain as he launches his Labour leadership campaign.
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A French aid worker kidnapped by the Taleban in Afghanistan in April is freed, a Taleban spokesman says.
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Guinea's president agrees to meet soldiers demanding unpaid wages who marched on the capital causing panic.
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Thousands of police are deployed in Karachi ahead of rallies in support of Pakistan's suspended top judge.
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The departing Nigerian government auctions oil licences, but receives little attention from large western oil firms.
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US-led forces admit civilians were killed in fighting with the Taleban in Afghanistan's Helmand province.
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The top US commander in Iraq writes a letter to troops warning them against torturing or abusing Iraqi detainees.
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India's low-caste Bahujan Samaj Party sweeps to victory in assembly elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
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The US university where 32 students and staff were killed in a gun rampage is staging its annual graduation ceremony.
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Pope Benedict XVI canonises Brazil's first saint before a crowd of a million people in the city of Sao Paulo.
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US and British troops will need to stay another one or two years in Iraq, the President Jalal Talabani says.
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Outgoing British PM Tony Blair visits Paris to say farewell to outgoing French President Jacques Chirac.
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Serbia's main pro-reform parties agree to form a government, after months of political wrangling.
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Rafael Nadal beats Novak Djokovic to reach the last four of the Rome Masters.
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Poland's highest court rules that parts of a controversial vetting law violate the country's constitution.
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