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At least 20 people are killed as violence worsens in Gaza, with factional fighting and Israeli air strikes.
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Four Mexican police officers are kidnapped and later found shot dead, with three people still missing.
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Tony Blair is in the US for talks with President Bush in the prime minister's final round of international diplomacy.
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Japan's key interest rate is kept on hold at 0.5% for a third consecutive month amid a slip in consumer prices.
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A British-born Muslim who plotted to blow up Israel's embassy in Australia is released from jail there.
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At least six men die in two roadside bomb blasts in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, witnesses say.
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A Colombian policeman held hostage by left-wing Farc rebels for nearly nine years escapes his captors.
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Russia's plan to build a nuclear research centre in Burma is heavily criticised by the US.
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Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble will play for India in the first Test in Bangladesh.
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The Russian Orthodox Church Abroad reunites with its mother church after 80 years of schism.
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Afghan and Pakistani troops exchange fire again in a disputed area of their common border.
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It will take up to four years to rebuild northern Uganda after two decades of rebellion, a top UN official says.
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US and Iranian diplomats will hold talks later this month on the security situation in Iraq, Iran's foreign minister says.
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Two trains make the first rail crossings between North and South Korea since the end of the Korean War.
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Iraq faces collapse unless the US and Britain change tack, a top think tank warns, as Iran sets a date for US talks.
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The expulsion of a priest from a church in south-west France has set off a fresh debate about celibacy.
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Two pupils are killed at a school in southern China after a teenager launches a knife attack, reports say.
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Coastguards in the Maldives open fire on a boat carrying suspected Tamil Tiger rebels from Sri Lanka.
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Chancellor Gordon Brown is confirmed as Tony Blair's successor as Labour leader and UK prime minister.
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A Russian man questioned over the disappearance of Madeleine McCann denies any involvement.
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Somalia's prime minister is unhurt after an apparent attempt to kill him in the capital, Mogadishu.
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Zimbabwe's government accuses Australia of funding violence to try to remove President Mugabe.
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Two secularist opposition parties in Turkey unite to challenge the Islamist-rooted AK Party.
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Police officers across the Indian city of Calcutta receive oxygen supplies to help offset the effects of air pollution.
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Zimbabwe's annual rate of inflation surges to a new record high of 3,731.9%, official figures show.
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A man is charged with indecent assault after a South African boy was allegedly kept captive for 13 years.
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New French President Nicolas Sarkozy names moderate conservative Francois Fillon as his first prime minister.
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Estonia says its websites are under heavy attack, blaming Russia for playing a part over a row about a war memorial.
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An Islamic court in northern Nigeria sentences a man to death for raping two teenage girls.
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Three people are killed and the Afghan culture minister slightly hurt in a bombing in Kandahar, officials say.
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Tony Blair and George W Bush reaffirm their decisions over Iraq, on Mr Blair's last official visit to Washington.
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Indian security forces are sent to Punjab and Haryana amid growing violence between Sikhs and a Hindu sect.
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Alastair Cook hits 102 not out as England dominate against West Indies, ending day one on 200-3.
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Belarus is defeated in a bid to join the UN's Human Rights Council, amid a campaign against its poor rights record.
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Entente Setif complete a 2-1 aggregate win over Al Faisali of Jordan to be crowned winners of the Arab Champions League.
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Israel launches air strikes and deploys troops in Gaza after vowing to respond to Palestinian rocket attacks.
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The White House and the US Senate reach a deal that could give legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
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Antarctica's Southern Ocean carbon "sink" is failing to soak up as much CO2 as it was expected to, scientists say.
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Algeria's parliamentary elections pass off peacefully amid tight security, although turnout is low.
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Seven more people are charged in a high-profile US case involving alleged theft of body parts from corpses.
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