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2007 » May 2007 » May 9th 2007
United KingdomNorthern Ireland's new ministers will begin their first engagements following the return of devolution.
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India, 
United StatesFormer US President Bill Clinton unveils a deal with two Indian drugs firms to cheaply produce HIV/Aids drugs.
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United StatesSix men are arrested in New Jersey on charges of planning to attack a US army base using automatic weapons.
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AfghanistanAfghan Senators back a bill calling on the government in Kabul to open direct talks with local Taleban militants.
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Cuba, United StatesA US judge throws out immigration charges against Cuban anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles.
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United StatesThe Queen jokes about US President Bush's gaffe in which he nearly aged her by 200 years.
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United StatesToyota continues to show solid growth thanks to the popularity of its models in the US and Europe, with profits up 9%.
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PhilippinesAt least eight people are now known to have been killed in Tuesday's attack in the southern Philippines.
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East TimorPolls close in East Timor, after a presidential election seen as critical to the young nation's future.
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Portugal, United KingdomThe uncle of missing Madeleine McCann says people should not dwell on criticisms of the investigation.
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United StatesUS presidential candidate Barack Obama dramatically exaggerates the number killed in recent tornadoes in Kansas.
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IndiaA court in Mumbai formally acquits 23 people who were charged over India's deadliest bombings.
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Nigeria, 
NigerFour US oil workers are kidnapped in Nigeria's volatile Niger Delta, only hours after 11 foreigners are freed.
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Italy, 
FranceMaria Sharapova pulls out of next week's Italian Open through injury and could miss the French Open.
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Russia, 
EstoniaRussian President Vladimir Putin says "desecration" of war memorials sows discord between nations.
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FranceFrench President-elect Nicolas Sarkozy faces criticism for holidaying on a luxury yacht before taking office.
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ZimbabweZimbabweans are to be limited to four hours of electricity a day in a bid to help the country's wheat farmers.
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaUN appeals judges reverse the conviction of a Bosnian Serb general found guilty of complicity in genocide.
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Iran, United StatesA prominent US think-tank says one of its researchers has been detained in the Iranian capital Tehran.
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GermanyThe German government is launching an action plan to cut obesity rates sharply by 2020.
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AustraliaTwo teenage girls in Australia are jailed for life for killing a friend simply to see if they would feel remorse.
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Equatorial Guinea, Zimbabwe, United KingdomA Zimbabwe court agrees to extradite an alleged UK mercenary to Equatorial Guinea, but he appeals.
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IraqUS Vice-President Dick Cheney visits Baghdad to push Iraqis towards a political solution to the unrest.
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BangladeshCash-strapped Bangladesh Biman Airlines announces plans to slash its workforce to cut financial losses.
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Ireland, United KingdomAn Irish teenager will be able to travel to Britain for an abortion after winning her High Court battle in Dublin.
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Ireland, United KingdomAn Irish teenager will be able to travel to Britain for an abortion after winning her High Court battle in Dublin.
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AfghanistanUS-led forces kill at least 21 civilians in an air strike in southern Afghanistan, local officials say.
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SomaliaHand grenades go off in the Somali capital where soldiers were confiscating and burning women's face veils.
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Cuba, United StatesCuba condemns the decision of a US judge to dismiss immigration charges against an anti-Castro militant.
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ChadChad's government signs a deal with the UN to begin demobilising child soldiers from its national army.
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IranTehran's mayor is re-elected in a move seen as a victory for pragmatic conservatives within Iran.
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United StatesThe US Federal Reserve keeps its main interest rate on hold at 5.25%, in a move expected by analysts.
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United StatesLightning ignited methane and led to the deaths of 12 miners in West Virginia last year, a US report says.
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Iraq, United StatesUS President Bush would veto a new Congress bill on Iraq linking funding to progress, his spokesman says.
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Brazil, United StatesInvestigators probing Brazil's worst aviation disaster have blamed two US pilots of a private jet, reports say.
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United StatesUS President George W Bush tours Greensburg in Kansas, flattened by the country's worst tornado in years.
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United StatesThe US economy remains the world's most competitive, despite the country's soaring trade deficit, a study says.
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Kazakhstan, Russia, 
TurkmenistanRussia's President Putin begins a trip to Central Asia's main energy exporters - Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.
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