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The chairman of South Korean firm Samsung quits less than a week after he was charged with tax evasion.
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The UK prime minister calls for international action to tackle what he calls a "world food crisis".
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India's agriculture minister rejects calls to extend aid for farmers as debts drive hundreds to suicide.
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Japan's workforce is shrinking rapidly, a report says, blaming a failure to attract women and the elderly into work.
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Sudan holds its first census since the end of the war in the south ahead of next year's national polls.
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Two Latin American leaders speak out against biofuels, as a London meeting prepares to assess EU policy on the issue.
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Zambia's president urges other African nations not to accept a ship carrying arms for Zimbabwe.
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Nuclear officials from the US return to North Korea after high level talks between the US, Japan and South Korea.
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Three Palestinian militants are killed in Gaza by Israeli troops while attacking an army post near the border.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki urges neighbouring states to do more to support his country's economy.
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A top Indian hockey official resigns after allegations that he accepted bribes to include a player in the national team.
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A French lawyer nicknamed "the Devil's advocate" will defend ex-Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan.
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The US Army and Marine Corps are recruiting more people with criminal records, official figures show.
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Forces from Somalia's Puntland region storm a UAE-flagged cargo ship hijacked by pirates, officials say.
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The Greek government fights back after a UN report sharply criticised its treatment of asylum seekers.
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The government of Botswana is refusing to allow Kalahari Bushmen access to a water borehole.
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Shares in Indian software giant Tata Consultancy Services fall after it reports disappointing earnings.
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The Olympic torch relay passes through Indonesia, in front of an all-ticket crowd under tight security.
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A ship carrying weapons to Zimbabwe may return to China after being blocked in South Africa, an official says.
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Justin Webb discovers that despite the fact there are more than 200 million guns in circulation, there is a certain tranquility and civility about life in the US.
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Bulgaria's PM carries out a major cabinet reshuffle as the EU scrutinises his administration.
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Burma's ruling junta lays the blame for two small bomb blasts in Rangoon on an obscure exiled student group.
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A spokesman for Taleban fighters in Pakistan welcomes the release of a well-known militant leader.
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Officials in China dispute US claims that Chinese imports are to blame for deaths from a blood-thinning drug.
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A Nigerian senator who is the daughter of the ex-president tells the BBC there is a "witch hunt" against her family.
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Members of Nigeria's parliament discuss an investigation into the country's oil business.
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Church leaders in Zimbabwe call for intervention to prevent post-election unrest developing into "genocide".
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Russia denies downing an unmanned Georgian spy plane over the breakaway Abkhazia region, blaming it on rebels.
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The European Parliament backs a German MEP's call for her colleagues to stop employing family members.
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Al-Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri says Iran is spreading lies that Israel, not his group, carried out the 9/11 attacks.
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Bosnia's war crimes court convicts three men of killing a group of unarmed Muslim civilians in September 1992.
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US and UK forces lead operations in Basra against Shia militiamen, military sources say.
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Painting with oils took place in ancient Afghanistan long before it was known in Europe, researchers say.
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