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Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wins the backing of MPs from his Kadima party, amid calls for him to resign.
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The US government is reportedly seeking to tighten visa restrictions for British citizens of Pakistani origin.
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Insurgents in Iraq are right to try to force US troops out of the country, a former British Army commander says.
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Japanese PM Shinzo Abe uses the 60th anniversary of the nation's pacifist constitution to call for 'bold' changes.
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One of America's most wanted suspected sex offenders, Kenneth Freeman, is caught in Hong Kong.
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The US embassy denies reports that Washington wants to tighten visa curbs on Britons of Pakistani origin.
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Gunmen in Afghanistan have killed a senator who was briefly prime minister in 1992, officials say.
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Millions of voters are going to the polls in Scotland, Wales and English local authority elections.
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Vandals who desecrated the grave of Hungary's last communist ruler stole some of his remains, police say.
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Sudan will not hand over two war crimes suspects to the International Criminal Court, the foreign minister says.
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The de facto US ambassador to Taiwan urges the island to pass an arms bill allowing it to buy US weapons.
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Voters in the Bahamas oust the government in favour of the opposition FNM party, unofficial results show.
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Iraq's prime minister appeals for debt relief at a summit in Egypt called to try to help stabilise his country.
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Turkey's MPs vote for a ruling party call for July elections aimed at resolving the crisis over the presidency.
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The Indian Supreme Court gives two weeks to Gujarat state police to explain the deaths of a Muslim couple in their custody.
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Malcolm Billings visits Jamestown, where the first English settlers arrived in America 400 years ago.
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Part of Beijing pilots a project to implant digital chips into dogs in a bid to control the city's canine population.
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Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comes under fire for kissing the hand of his former teacher in public.
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France's presidential rivals claim victory in a TV debate as they prepare to hold final rallies ahead of the vote.
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Starbucks and Ethiopia reach an agreement which could help end a dispute over coffee bean trademarks.
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Tim Franks, in Jerusalem, finds there are clear signs that Israelis, usually such a patriotic people, have begun to feel more equivocal about their country.
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The French-led Corot mission spies its first planet - a distant world that is hotter and bigger than Jupiter.
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The US military says it has positively identified a militant killed near Baghdad as a key al-Qaeda in Iraq official.
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A pregnant teenager in Irish state care goes to court to press for the right to abort her terminally-ill foetus.
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The leader of Hezbollah says he respects Israel for issuing such a damning report the Lebanon war.
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Five foreigners kidnapped in Nigeria's oil-rich south have been freed say militants, but others are still held.
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Officials at Sri Lanka's only international airport announce that it will close at night time following rebel air strikes.
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A court blocks Dutch bank ABN Amro's plan to sell its US banking business, threatening merger plans with Barclays.
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Burmese Prime Minister General Soe Win returns home after treatment at a Singapore hospital.
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Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure wins a second five-year term in presidential elections.
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Israeli MPS debate a damning report on the Lebanon war, but PM Ehud Olmert escapes a confidence vote.
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Condoleezza Rice holds the US's first high-level talks with Syria since 2005, on the fringe of an Iraq conference.
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Russian youths vow to stop a vigil at Moscow's Estonian embassy, amid a row over the moving of a war memorial.
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Nato pledges to make more efforts to prevent civilian deaths when fighting militants in Afghanistan.
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Sudan and Chad agreed to co-operate with the AU and UN to stabilise Darfur and the neighbouring region of Chad.
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Influential Somali businessmen surrender weapons to African Union peacekeepers in the capital, Mogadishu.
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Tens of thousands of Israelis gather in Tel Aviv calling for PM Ehud Olmert to quit over last year's Lebanon war.
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Walter Schirra, a US space pioneer who was the only man to fly on Mercury, Gemini and Apollo missions, dies.
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Queen Elizabeth II pays tribute to the Virginia Tech shooting victims, on her first trip to the US for 16 years.
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The two candidates in France's presidential election hold their final rallies before Sunday's vote.
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President Hugo Chavez threatens to take over Venezuela's private banks and largest steel firm.
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