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Pakistan, 
United StatesUS President George Bush tells Pakistan's visiting PM that the two countries remain close allies despite recent strains.
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United StatesGeorge W Bush becomes the first US President in more than 50 years to approve the death sentence of a soldier.
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PakistanThree Pakistani security officials are killed by militants in the north-western district of Swat.
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South Korea, United StatesUS beef arrives in South Korea for the first time in nearly five years under a new import deal which sparked huge protests.
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AfghanistanAfghan truck drivers forced to pay up - again and again
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TongaTonga's king is to relinquish much of the power his family has held for generations, his spokesman says.
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ZimbabweTalks with Robert Mugabe's government are deadlocked, Zimbabwe's opposition says.
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ChinaAmnesty International says human rights in China have deteriorated in the run-up to its hosting of the Olympic Games.
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SwedenProfits at electronics giant Sony plunge by almost 50%, hurt by losses at its mobile phone venture with Sweden's Ericsson.
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ArubaThe Australian government abandons the country's controversial policy of jailing all asylum seekers.
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China, Aruba, United StatesAustralian swimming great Grant Hackett says American Michael Phelps can eclipse Mark Spitz's record by winning eight golds at Beijing.
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ChileThe eldest daughter of Chile's late leader Gen Augusto Pinochet says she will run as a local councillor in October's elections.
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South AfricaSouth African Aids activists dismiss a call for Muslim couples to have pre-marital HIV tests.
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MalaysiaMalaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim claims new medical evidence shows allegations he sodomised a male aide are false.
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South Africa, 
Libya, 
SudanThe UN Security Council is divided over attempts to link
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West BankRival security forces in the West Bank and Gaza are accused of torturing detainees in reports by human rights groups.
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Israel, West BankIsrael says it will dismantle a section of the West Bank barrier, restoring Palestinian farmers' access to some of their land.
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ChinaBeijing rejects a report by Amnesty International saying that human rights have deteriorated in the run-up to the Olympics.
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South AfricaAn ex-matron at Oprah Winfrey's school in South Africa goes on trial for abusing girl students.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, 
Serbia and MontenegroEU ambassadors put off a decision on Serbia's EU ambitions until Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic is sent to The Hague.
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Antigua and Barbuda, 
United KingdomPolice in Antigua are questioning five people over the murder of a British doctor and the shooting of her husband on honeymoon.
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South Africa, ZimbabweTalks to solve Zimbabwe's crisis are to adjourn but will resume in a few days, South African President Thabo Mbeki says.
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IsraelIsrael's military tells an army commander to take 10 days off amid allegations he told one of his soldiers to shoot a Palestinian.
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IndiaIndia's central bank increases its key interest rate to 9% from 8.5% in a bid to dampen surging inflation.
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United Kingdom, 
SpainDifficult market conditions have forced British Airways and Spain's Iberia into merger talks, the airlines say.
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South Africa, United KingdomEngland leave out Steve Harmison and Stuart Broad for the third Test against South Africa, but Paul Collingwood is recalled.
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CambodiaEuropean election observers say thousands of voters were prevented from taking part in Cambodia's general election.
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RussiaRussian scientists reach the bottom of the world's deepest body of fresh water - Lake Baikal in Siberia.
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United StatesUS consumer confidence improves slightly in July, a survey suggests, but still represents a bleak view of the economy.
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Pakistan, IndiaIndia and Pakistan accuse each other of breaching a ceasefire after troops clash along the dividing line in disputed Kashmir.
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United StatesVeteran US broadcaster Bill O'Reilly calls Nas a "vile rapper" who peddles violent lyrics after he claimed Fox News is racist.
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UgandaUganda apologises for the detention of three officials from the Buganda kingdom.
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TurkeyThe Turkish military says its fighter planes have attacked a hideout of the Kurdish rebel PKK in northern Iraq.
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ChinaBoxer travels from Xinjiang orchard to Beijing Games
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaSeven Bosnian Serbs are jailed for genocide over the massacre of more than 1,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.
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SudanA Sudanese judge sentences eight Darfur rebels to death over an attack on the capital.
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United KingdomUK scientists have developed a drug which may halt the progression of early-stage Alzheimer's disease.
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United Kingdom, SpainDifficult market conditions have forced British Airways and Spain's Iberia into merger talks, the airlines say.
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NigeriaRescue workers search for survivors trapped after a shopping centre collapses in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
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Iraq, ChinaThe International Olympic Committee clears the way for Iraq to compete in the Olympics after lifting its previous ban.
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Israel, West BankIsraeli troops shoot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during a protest against the West Bank barrier, Palestinians say.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and MontenegroPolice battle supporters of captured ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic during a mass rally in Belgrade.
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IraqThe rise of the female Iraqi suicide bomber
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ThailandThe BBC's Jonathan Head visits a school in Thailand which has provided transsexual pupils with their own toilet.
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BrazilDNA tests confirm a body found off Brazil's coast is that of a priest who went missing trying to set a flight record, officials say.
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