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One of the most outspoken clerics in Zimbabwe again calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down.
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Colombian authorities uncover mass graves containing more than 100 people in the south of the country.
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Spain's Supreme court bans hundreds of candidates in local elections because of Eta links.
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Eight policemen and at least four Taleban are killed in a gun battle in western Afghanistan, police say.
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The parents of a three-year-old girl feared abducted in Portugal make a fresh appeal for information.
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Ducati's Casey Stoner saw off the challenge of Valentino Rossi to win the China Grand Prix and extend his MotoGP series lead to 15 points.
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Pakistan's ousted chief justice tells supporters opposed to President Musharraf that dictatorships "get destroyed".
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Rescuers in Cameroon resume searching for a Kenyan airliner thought to have crashed with 114 people aboard.
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South Africa's main opposition party, the Democratic Alliance, elects Cape Town mayor Helen Zille as leader.
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Regulators reject a last-ditch attempt by a consortium to revive its takeover of Australian airline Qantas.
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Eight French and one Canadian soldier are killed in Egypt as a peacekeepers' plane crashes in the Sinai region.
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Turkey's Abdullah Gul fails in a new bid for the presidency amid a row pitting secularists against the ruling party.
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Human rights groups in Israel accuse the security services of routinely mistreating Palestinian detainees.
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An Airbus A380 superjumbo lands in New Delhi, marking the first time the giant jet has flown to India.
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Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri mocks a US bill that sets a timetable for US troops to leave Iraq.
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France reports high turnout as voters choose between Nicolas Sarkozy and Segolene Royal as their new president.
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The wreckage of a Kenya Airways jet that went missing on Saturday has been found, officials confirm.
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A car bomb kills at least 33 people and injures dozens in a mainly Shia area of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
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A new wave of tornadoes strikes the central US, a day after nine people died in a massive tornado in Kansas.
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French conservative Nicolas Sarkozy wins an intensely fought presidential election that saw an 85% turnout.
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