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Singapore's prime minister urges the US to maintain ties with both China and Japan, after talks in Washington.
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Police in Colombia detain a woman travelling on an bus with hundreds of small explosives strapped to her body.
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Police continue searching for a three-year-old UK girl feared abducted in Portugal, as her parents urge her return.
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France's presidential rivals end their campaigns amid a war of words between Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Thousand of miners in Peru will return to work after receiving guarantees about working conditions.
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Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton is jailed for 45 days for driving while on probation on a drink-driving charge.
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Five-time world champion Valentino Rossi claimed pole position for the China Grand Prix in Shanghai.
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A recording said to be of al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq - believed killed this week - appears on a militant website.
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A number of Tamil Tiger rebels are killed in a naval confrontation off the north-eastern coast.
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The first voting in the French presidential election begins with polling in some overseas regions.
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Stephen Gibbs reports from the May Day parade in Havana, where Cubans hoped to see Fidel Castro's return.
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Sarah Rainsford reports on the political crisis in Turkey, where a row over the election of a president has made secularists furious.
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Rachel Reid makes her own minor breakthrough for women's' rights in Saudi Arabia.
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Tens of thousands of Turks protest again to show their support for Turkey's secular system.
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The Foreign Office looks into reports a British oil worker has been abducted from a rig off the Nigerian coast.
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The ex-head of Indonesia's army says there were no gross rights violations during E Timor's independence vote.
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Former top Iranian nuclear negotiator Hossein Mousavian is to be charged with spying, Iran's Fars news agency says.
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Militant group Hamas rejects a US plan for improving security and easing limits on movement in the Palestinian territories.
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Portuguese police searching for a missing British toddler say she has been abducted and have identified a suspect.
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Hundreds are arrested in Pakistan ahead of a rally in support of the ousted chief justice, activists say.
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At least 10 people are killed in a suicide attack on an army recruiting centre - one of several attacks across Iraq.
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A Kenya Airways plane is reported to have crashed in southern Cameroon with 114 people on board.
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Police in Serbia arrest 27 people at a gathering of volunteers pledged to fight to stop Kosovo breaking away.
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