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Colombia's president orders the army to step up efforts to rescue high-profile rebel hostage Ingrid Betancourt.
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Clashes between Palestinian groups in Gaza continue, as Israeli attacks on Hamas targets leave eight dead.
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A US Navy lawyer faces six months in prison for secretly releasing the names of Guantanamo Bay detainees.
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One of Taipei's best known landmarks, the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall, is to be officially renamed.
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Peru's ex-intelligence chief goes on trial over alleged extra-judicial killings during the 1997 Japanese embassy siege.
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Samoans turn out for the funeral of head of state Malietoa Tanumafili II, who died last week aged 94.
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Former US President Jimmy Carter criticises Tony Blair for his "blind" support for George W Bush over Iraq.
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Simon Worrall embarks on a Himalayan expedition inspired by the 19th Century British photographer Samuel Bourne.
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Dame Elizabeth Taylor can keep a Van Gogh painting that may have been seized by the Nazis, a US court rules.
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Manchester City remain in discussions with a number of parties over a potential buyout.
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Security correspondent Frank Gardner is in Bahrain to test opinions about events in Iraq and, across the Gulf, in Iran.
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One Palestinian dies and five are injured as Israel's military carries out a fresh air strike in the Gaza Strip.
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Three park rangers and four suspected poachers are killed in a gunfight in a Kenyan wildlife area.
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A record haul gold and silver coins is probably from a 17th Century shipwreck off England's Cornish coast.
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China confirms a new outbreak of the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in the central province of Hunan.
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Michael Moore launches his new film Sicko in Cannes, saying he feared US authorities would seize it.
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Attempts to free two whales stranded up a river in California are put on hold for the weekend.
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Three German soldiers are among nine people killed in a bomb attack in the Afghan province of Kunduz.
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Juventus clinch Italy's Serie B title with three games to spare to bounce back into Serie A after their demotion last season.
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Three men from Sweden are freed by Ethiopia after being detained for five months as terror suspects.
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Spinner Monty Panesar takes four wickets for England but West Indies battle back bravely in the first Test.
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Tony Blair thanks British troops for their "brilliant" work on a visit to Iraq - as mortars rock their base.
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A hardline Islamic seminary in Islamabad, Pakistan, releases two of four policemen kidnapped on Friday.
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The commander of US troops in Iraq, Gen Petraeus, says at least two of three missing US soldiers are still alive.
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