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People in the US state of Iowa prepare for more of the floods which have already forced thousands from their homes.
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US Secretary of State Rice makes an unannounced visit to Lebanon following a crucial power-sharing deal.
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Former US Vice-President Al Gore endorses the Democratic candidate for the presidency, Barack Obama.
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Three death row inmates are executed in Japan, two months after four other prisoners were hanged.
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UN officials are given rare access to North Korea's countryside to assess how serious food shortages there are.
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A strike called by separatists in India's tea-producing Darjeeling area resumes.
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Four Shia Muslims are killed in a gun attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.
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China's yuan is at its highest level since July 2005 as US and Chinese officials begin a two-day meeting.
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More than 50,000 military jobs are to be cut in France under plans to be announced by President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Kenyan scavengers live by recycling plastic bags
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Why S Asia children do so well in US spelling contests
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Nigeria's oil industry regulator head is suspended pending a probe into licences awarded under ex-President Obasanjo.
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Chad's president accuses an EU peace force of co-operating with rebels trying to advance on the capital.
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Police in Canada discover a human foot on a beach near Vancouver, the fifth to be found in the area in a year.
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Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontiers exposes torture and sexual violence in a little-known conflict in western Kenya.
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A US woman denies using a fake MySpace profile to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.
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Security is very tight as the Olympic torch begins its passage through China's predominantly Muslim region of Xinjiang.
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Peruvian demonstrators demanding a greater share of mining taxes overpower police and take dozens hostage.
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Eleven Brazilian soldiers are arrested after allegedly handing over three men to a drug gang that killed them.
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Israeli police arrest two Jewish settlers over an apparent assault of Palestinians that was captured on film.
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The EU must not renegotiate a reform treaty despite the Irish rejection of the Lisbon deal, France says.
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President Nicolas Sarkozy says terrorism is the greatest threat to France as he presents a new defence strategy.
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Fierce fighting breaks out between Lebanese government supporters and opposition supporters in the eastern Bekaa.
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The asylum-seekers caught in legal limbo in Denmark
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Militants from Pakistan's troubled northern Swat district break off contact with the government.
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A deadly mite could threaten Australia's vital honey bee population, a parliamentary committee warns.
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Why cuts in the French military are no retreat
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Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi defends a move to suspend some trials for a year amid accusations of conflict of interest.
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Chad's government accuses the Sudanese army of attacking a town on their border after days of rebel raids.
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Ten Egyptian paramilitary police conscripts are charged with beating a colleague to death.
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US producer prices jumped by more than many analysts expected in May amid soaring fuel and food prices.
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Israel's Ehud Olmert and Syria's Bashar al-Assad will come face to face next month in Paris, says France's foreign minister.
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Villagers in north-eastern Romania elect a dead man as their mayor, to avoid giving votes to his living rival.
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Prosecutors in Equatorial Guinea call for British mercenary Simon Mann to serve 30 years in jail for his 2004 coup plot.
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Plans to use high resolution cameras in space to monitor deforestation in the Congo Basin are unveiled.
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Mass evacuations and river reinforcements are under way in southern China amid fears of more bad flooding.
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Disgraced Pakistani scientist AQ Khan denies giving blueprints for advanced nuclear warheads to Swiss smugglers.
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Could an ape-like creature roam hills in north-east India?
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The Pakistani finance minister reveals defence budget details for the first time in 40 years.
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Lithuania passes the toughest curbs anywhere in the former Soviet Union on the display of Soviet and Nazi symbols.
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Fighting breaks out in the West African state of Guinea between soldiers and striking police officers.
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Military cuts spark economic fears for French towns
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A popular Philippines TV presenter, her cameraman and an academic are freed by suspected Abu Sayyaf kidnappers.
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Zimbabwe's main opposition loses a bid for its secretary general to be freed from custody, where he faces treason charges.
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Italy will meet Spain in the Euro 2008 quarter-finals after beating 10-man France 2-0 in their final Group C game.
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A US judge drops charges against a marine officer accused of failing to investigate deaths of Iraqi civilians in Haditha.
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A car bomb at a busy bus stop in northern Baghdad kills 51 people and leaves another 75 wounded, say police.
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Peru's lucrative copper mountain in Chinese hands
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Brazilian-Japanese mark 100 years of immigration
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US regulators slap limits on oil contracts traded overseas amid fears speculators are artificially boosting oil prices.
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