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French conservative Nicolas Sarkozy calls for unity and promises change after winning the presidential election.
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Two US soldiers are killed and two injured in a shooting outside a prison on the outskirts of Kabul.
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A consortium which failed in its $8.9bn effort to buy Australian airline Qantas says it could return with a new bid.
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China's top family planning body warns of a 'population rebound' as couples flout the strict one child policy.
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South Korea and the European Union begin talks that could expand their $80bn trade exchange.
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Militants in Gaza fired a rocket into Israel, continuing a series of attacks they say are in retaliation for West Bank incursions.
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The newly elected leader of South Africa's main opposition party denies the party is too white and middle class.
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A second editor of a student publication in Iran is detained over works that right-wing students say insult Islam.
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Six people die in an accident involving a lorry and a recovery vehicle on the M25 in Surrey.
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African leaders congratulate the French president-elect, but there is uncertainty over future ties.
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A row brews in Italy over a parliamentary bill to stop rich business men standing for high office.
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Sri Lanka's government says a 2002 ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels needs to be re-examined.
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Two suicide bombers kill at least 24 people near the town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Taiwan's ruling Democratic Progressive Party is expected to confirm Frank Hsieh its presidential candidate.
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France's new President-elect, Nicolas Sarkozy, prepares for office after being elected promising radical change.
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A leader of the Baader-Meinhof gang, jailed since 1983, is denied a pardon by the German president.
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Pakistan's supreme court suspends an inquiry into misconduct charges against the top judge.
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An Israeli aircraft fires on a car apparently carrying Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, reports say.
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A blast destroys a section of one of Ukraine's main gas pipelines exporting Russian gas to Europe, officials say.
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The former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, returns to Dhaka after efforts to force her into exile fail.
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Turkey's parliament gives initial approval to electoral reforms brought by the ruling AK party.
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None of the 114 passengers and crew survived a jet crash in a swamp in Cameroon, say rescue workers.
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Two more bodies are found in a town in Kansas devastated by a tornado, taking the death toll to at least 10.
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Argentina football legend Diego Maradona is released from a specialist clinic treating addictions.
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The Queen receives a 21-gun salute as she meets President George W Bush on the final leg of her US visit.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says a new US security plan carries "important steps".
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The new assembly of the member states of South America's Mercosur trading bloc is inaugurated in Uruguay.
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The Queen and Prince Philip attend a state banquet at the White House on the final leg of their US visit.
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