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Iraq, 
United Kingdom, 
AustraliaIraq signs deals with the UK and Australia for their troops to stay after a UN mandate expires on 1 January, Baghdad says.
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United KingdomBritish Olympic hero Chris Hoy admits he is still coming to terms with receiving a knighthood in the New Year's Honours list.
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RussiaAn ailing former executive of Russia's Yukos oil firm is freed after posting a £1.2m bail, his lawyers say.
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ZimbabweA look back at the lows and highs of 2008 in Zimbabwe
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New ZealandA New Zealand passenger plane successfully completes a two-hour test flight partly powered by vegetable oil.
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Argentina, 
SpainConstruction workers in Argentina find oil - of the olive variety - as they unearth a colonial-era Spanish ship believed to be 250 years old.
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IndonesiaAn Indonesian court acquits a retired deputy intelligence chief of ordering the murder of a leading rights campaigner.
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SlovakiaSlovakia sees euro as a vital shield in times of turmoil
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AfghanistanInternational military forces in Afghanistan say they have killed 17 militants in two separate operations.
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BermudaOlympic cyclist Chris Hoy is knighted in the New Year Honours list, as Bradley Wiggins and Ben Ainslie become CBEs, Rebecca Adlington is appointed OBE and Lewis Hamilton becomes an MBE.
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BangladeshSri Lanka win the first Test match in Mirpur by 107 runs after bowling out a resilient Bangladesh for 413.
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ZimbabweA Zimbabwe judge orders 16 activists accused of organising military training to remain in jail.
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BangladeshThe winner of the first national elections in Bangladesh for seven years urges her defeated rival to accept the results.
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Aruba, 
Hong KongMaria Sharapova is "hopeful" of being fit to defend her Australian Open title despite withdrawing from an exhibition event in Hong Kong.
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RussiaA former mayor of Vladikavkaz, in Russia's troubled North Caucasus, is shot dead - a month after a sniper killed his successor.
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SpainA car bomb explodes near a Basque television station building in the city of Bilbao in northern Spain.
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United StatesThe twists and turns of an historic US election year
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United StatesBarack Obama says Democratic senators are right to reject the Illinois governor's choice as his Senate replacement.
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SpainA car bomb explodes near a Basque television building in the city of Bilbao in northern Spain - no casualties are reported.
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PakistanPakistani forces arrest 40 people and destroy suspected militant bases and houses in a key offensive in the Khyber Pass.
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TaiwanChina's President Hu Jintao calls for talks with Taiwanese leaders to ease military and security tensions.
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Ethiopia, 
SomaliaEthiopian troops prepare to leave Somalia as the deadline looms for them to quit, witnesses say.
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IndonesiaWhat the acquittal of a top spy means for Indonesia
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IndiaThe famous beards and moustaches of India - seen as representing the face of the country to the outside world - are under threat, a new book says.
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IranA new raid by the Iranian authorities on an office of Nobel Peace Prize winner and lawyer Shirin Ebadi is widely condemned.
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GhanaOpposition candidate John Atta Mills heads for the Ghana constituency which will decide the tight presidential run-off.
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BelarusThe International Monetary Fund (IMF) approves a $2.5bn loan to Belarus to help it cope with the financial downturn.
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ItalyHundreds of women in Naples pledge to withhold sex from their men unless they stay away from illegal fireworks at new year.
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Vietnam, 
ChinaChina and Vietnam say they have resolved a decades-long border dispute, just hours before a deadline.
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Pakistan, IndiaUS President George W Bush calls the leaders of Pakistan and India to try to ease tension in the wake of Mumbai.
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ChinaChinese researchers have unearthed what they believe is the largest collection of dinosaur bones ever found.
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IsraelGordon Brown calls for an urgent ceasefire in Gaza amid a "humanitarian crisis" after days of Israeli bombing.
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Ukraine, RussiaA war of words breaks out in a gas row between Ukraine and Russia, amid claims that supplies to Europe are under threat.
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ChinaThe trial begins in China of four milk firm executives at the centre of a contamination scandal that left six children dead.
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Ukraine, RussiaRussia says gas talks with Ukraine have failed and supplies will be cut within hours - amid fears European exports could be hit.
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Iraq, United KingdomTwo Iraqis accused of murdering UK soldiers are handed over to Iraq despite a bar by the European Court of Human Rights.
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Israel, 
Gaza StripInternational proposals for a 48-hour humanitarian truce in Gaza are dismissed by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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ThailandAt least 59 people have been killed and dozens injured in a fire in a nightclub in Thailand's capital, Bangkok, police say.
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