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US President Bush vetoes a Congressional bill linking Iraq war funding to a timetable for troop withdrawal.
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African Union peacekeepers mount their first patrols of Somalia's war-torn capital, Mogadishu.
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A top US State Department official will visit India in a push to conclude a landmark deal on nuclear fuel.
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Colombia says that a seizure of cocaine, announced as the biggest ever, weighed only 13 tonnes, not 25.
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Venezuela says it has taken over four refineries in the Orinoco Belt as part of a renationalisation drive.
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Estonia's foreign minister says Russia's response to the row over a Soviet war memorial is an "attack" on the EU.
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US-led troops and Afghan police kill five militants in a clash in the south, coalition forces say.
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The Sri Lankan military says it has killed 13 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north in the past 48 hours.
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South Korea announces a plan to seize assets gained by alleged collaborators during Japan's colonial rule.
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Thousands of immigrants are to march in US cities for immigration law reforms and more rights for illegal workers.
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Liberia opens its first diamond certification office after the lifting of a six-year UN embargo.
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Nearly 150 priests and other religious figures are accused or suspected of child abuse in Ireland since 1940.
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In a rare interview, the son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak insists he has no plans to become president.
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A top Iranian former nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian is detained, according to reports from Tehran.
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Australian senator Bill Heffernan is under fire for saying a childless female politician is unfit to govern.
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Turkey's ruling party asks parliament to approve an early general election, amid deadlock over the presidency.
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Uganda's LRA rebels kill seven people during an ambush, say the army just days after peace talks resumed.
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The al-Jazeera TV channel says an Egyptian court has sentenced one of its journalists to six months in prison.
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Israel's cabinet discusses the highly critical Lebanon war report as pressure on Ehud Olmert to resign grows.
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Magistrates seeking to search President Jacques Chirac's Elysee Palace office are turned away by French police.
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Estonia's Moscow consulate shuts after pro-Kremlin youths attack diplomats in a row over a USSR war memorial.
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The UN refugee agency says more than 36,000 Afghans have been deported from Iran in the past 10 days.
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Tony Blair says the UK government is doing all it can to secure the release of abducted BBC journalist Alan Johnston.
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US rubber company Firestone denies allegations that it is polluting a river near its plant in Liberia.
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Iraq's parliament considers a draft oil law, seen as crucial in regulating how oil wealth is divided among regions.
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A Taipei ex-mayor facing corruption charges is named as Taiwan's main opposition presidential candidate.
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Pakistan's nuclear authority says there is no need to worry over its adverts for "lost" radioactive material.
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The International Criminal Court orders the arrest of a minister and a militia leader in Sudan accused of war crimes.
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The Afghan president hits out at foreign troop tactics after officials say 50 civilians were killed in the west.
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The British government warns of widespread fraud scams, which it says could be funding terrorist acts in Sri Lanka.
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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni says PM Ehud Olmert should resign after a damning report on the Lebanon war.
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A recording is aired of a 1970 protest at a US university in which the National Guard killed four students.
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Turkey's PM calls for early elections and criticises a key court ruling annulling a vote on the presidency.
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Scientists in the US using new data say that up to half of the surface of Mars may contain ice.
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France's presidential rivals face off in a fiery TV debate, with just days left to win over undecided voters.
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President Bush and Congress leaders say they seek common ground on Iraq, but a funding impasse remains.
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West Indies leave Marlon Samuels out of the party to tour England this summer.
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