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JapanAnti-whaling nations quash Japanese overtures as an annual whaling conference opens in Alaska.
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JapanA Japanese mountaineer leads an expedition to the Mount Everest to retrieve tons of rubbish.
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Israel, 
Gaza StripIsraeli soldiers kill two Hamas militants in a gun battle in the Gaza Strip, Hamas officials say.
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PakistanA car bomb blast injures six people outside the high court in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, say police.
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ChinaChina sentences the former head of its Food and Drug Administration to death for corruption, state media says.
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BrazilBrazil announces a $51m plan to make birth control pills more affordable for the country's poor.
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GermanyGerman police clash with hundreds of anti-globalisation demonstrators in Hamburg, arresting 21 people.
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Ethiopia, 
SomaliaEthiopian police arrests five suspects over the grenade attack that killed six people in the eastern Somali region.
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Iraq, 
United StatesUS peace activist Cindy Sheehan, whose son died in Iraq, says she is giving up campaigning to end the war.
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IsraelResults in the Israeli Labour primary put leader Amir Peretz in a distant third, bringing a period of uncertainty.
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SyriaSyria's President Bashar al- Assad wins another seven year term in a ballot in which he was the only candidate.
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NetherlandsA Dutch television show is criticised for offering a terminally ill woman's kidneys as a prize.
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South KoreaNorth and South Korea meet for a new round of talks, with tensions expected over delayed rice shipments.
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Iran, United StatesIran formally charges two Iranian-American academics currently in jail in Tehran with espionage.
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BangladeshTwo former Bangladeshi ministers are arrested in a continuing crackdown on allegedly corrupt politicians.
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France, 
RussiaRussia's 11th seed Nadia Petrova struggles with a back problem as she is knocked out of the first round of the French Open for the second year running.
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ArgentinaThe passport used by Holocaust organiser Adolf Eichmann to enter Argentina is unearthed in court records.
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United StatesAn Al-Jazeera cameraman held at Guantanamo Bay calls for the release of abducted BBC reporter Alan Johnston.
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VenezuelaVenezuelan authorities accuse a TV station of calling for the president's murder, hours after taking another off air.
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United KingdomA growing number of migrants coming to Britain from Eastern Europe may want to stay, a study suggests.
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NigeriaUmaru Yar'Adua is sworn in as Nigeria's new president, as opposition activists hold small protests.
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RussiaRussia test-launches an intercontinental ballistic missile which can be armed with multiple warheads.
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LebanonA Lebanese soldier is killed in fighting overnight with Islamist militants at a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon.
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnian police hunt a convicted Bosnian Serb war criminal who has been on the run since Friday.
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Sudan, United StatesUS President George W Bush announces fresh sanctions on Sudan over the four-year conflict in Darfur.
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IndiaAt least seven people die in riots in the Indian state of Rajasthan over affirmative action plans, officials say.
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IndiaIndia must boost its agricultural output for the sake of its economy and farmers, its prime minister says.
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IndiaA Muslim cleric in Indian-administered Kashmir issues an edict against Indian soldiers renovating mosques.
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Turkey, FranceFrench President Sarkozy moves to prevent friction over Turkey's EU membership bid.
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PakistanPakistan's ousted chief justice says the secret service detained him when he was suspended in March.
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United StatesFour children and their mother are found hanged in their mobile home in the US - but an eight-month-old survives.
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IndonesiaIndonesia sentences seven foreigners to death for setting up an illegal factory producing ecstasy.
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Libya, United KingdomBP is to resume operations in Libya for the first time since its oil fields were nationalised in 1974.
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Iraq, United StatesTen US troops are killed in Iraq, officials say, making May the deadliest month this year for the US military.
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LibyaTony Blair says relations with Libya have been "completely transformed", as BP signs a Libya gas exploration deal.
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IraqFour British bodyguards and their British client are kidnapped from the Iraqi finance ministry.
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Nigeria, 
NigerNigeria's newly sworn-in president says the troubled Niger Delta will receive his "urgent attention".
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United StatesUS officials quarantine a man with a dangerous form of tuberculosis and urge fellow air travellers to be tested.
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MoroccoMoroccan internet users unable to access YouTube say they fear it is being blocked by the authorities.
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GreenlandGreenland's plan to expand its whale hunt causes deadlock at an annual whaling conference in Alaska.
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VenezuelaVenezuela's president attacks "plots" against his government and threatens action against a second TV channel.
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