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United StatesProtesters gather in San Francisco, where the Olympic torch is on the latest leg of its world relay.
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Peru, 
FranceFive French tourists have died in a plane crash during a flight over the famous Nazca Lines in Peru, police say.
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JapanFour death row prisoners are hanged in Japan, two months after the last round of executions.
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Germany, 
United KingdomGerman utility RWE has made a £11bn takeover approach for UK nuclear operator British Energy, reports say.
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China, United StatesBarack Obama urges President Bush to weigh boycotting the Beijing Olympics, as the US leg of the torch relay is held.
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ChinaChina revises its measure of the growth of its economy in 2007 upwards from 11.4% to 11.9%.
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AfghanistanA suicide car bomb explodes in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, killing at least eight civilians, officials say.
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IndiaIndia's Supreme Court okays a government plan to boost reservation for low-caste and disadvantaged in colleges and universities.
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United StatesThe US secretary of state asks for "embarrassing" travel restrictions on Nelson Mandela to be lifted.
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United KingdomThe Archbishop of Canterbury condemns death threats made against the leader of a group representing homosexual Anglicans in the UK.
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Burma, 
ThailandMore than 50 Burmese illegal migrants suffocate in the back of a lorry taking them into Thailand, police say.
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ChinaThe Olympic committee chief says the Games will recover from "crisis" after days of protests against China.
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United KingdomA Serbian man based in the UK is charged with taking part in the execution of 200 ethnic Croats, war crime prosecutors say.
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BelgiumThe mother of missing Madeleine McCann meets MEPs to push for an EU-wide child alert system.
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Israel, 
Gaza StripIsrael says it will retaliate at a time and place of its choosing against Hamas over a fuel depot raid.
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NepalPeople in Nepal complete voting in mostly peaceful elections that will decide the future of the country.
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ChinaChina says it has cracked a terror plot to kidnap athletes, journalists and tourists at August's Beijing Olympics.
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South AfricaA government minister in South Africa tells police they should kill criminals if they threaten police or the community, reports say.
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Russia, 
South Korea, 
North KoreaA Russian capsule carrying South Korea's first astronaut docks with the space station.
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EgyptEgypt sends hundreds of security personnel to the border with Gaza after Hamas threatens to breach the frontier.
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Sri Lanka, 
SlovakiaAn arms trade campaigning group has criticised the sale of 10,000 military missiles by Slovakia to Sri Lanka.
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United KingdomThe UK Treasury faces a £3.5m bill, because VAT was wrongly slapped on a Marks and Spencer teacake.
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FranceAt least 19,000 demonstrate in Paris against a proposed reform of the French education system.
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Portugal, SlovakiaSlovakia and Poland ratify the Lisbon Treaty, bringing to nine the number of EU countries approving it.
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France, 
MauritaniaMauritanian police arrest a militant suspected of killing French tourists, who was on the run disguised as a woman.
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United KingdomA 12th Century key to the holiest site in Islam sells for a record $18 million at Sotheby's in London.
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HaitiA tentative normality returns to Haiti after a week of riots over food-price increases that have left five dead.
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United StatesFamilies of those killed and hurt in the Virginia Tech campus massacre agree an $11m deal with US state of Virginia.
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ZimbabweZimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai will attend an emergency regional summit.
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United StatesThe biggest US airline cancels 900 more flights, as hundreds of planes stay grounded amid safety concerns.
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Colombia, United StatesThe US House of Representatives defies President Bush by delaying action on free trade deal with Colombia.
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Iraq, United StatesPresident George W Bush declares that the US now holds the initiative in Iraq following the troop surge.
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UgandaThe leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels puts off signing a deal to end 20 years of civil war.
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BotswanaBrazilian authorities arrest more than 50 people, including 16 mayors and a federal judge, on corruption charges.
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MexicoOpposition legislators in Mexico take over both houses of congress to oppose planned oil industry reforms.
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Saudi Arabia, United KingdomThe High Court rules that the SFO acted unlawfully by dropping a corruption probe into a £43bn Saudi arms deal.
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