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Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears in a video broadcast on state TV, for the first time since he ceded power.
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China's Olympic torch relay moves to the ancient Silk Road city of Kashgar in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region.
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US senators criticise military officials for the way they developed interrogation methods used at Guantanamo Bay.
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Israel and Hamas agree a truce starting this Thursday, Palestinian officials tell the BBC after Egyptian-brokered talks.
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Hundreds of people flee their homes in a district of southern Afghanistan fearing fighting between troops and the Taleban.
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President Bashar al-Assad begins a five-day state trip to India, the first by a Syrian leader in three decades.
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Parts of Australia's Murray-Darling river basin will be beyond recovery unless they receive water soon, scientists warn.
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Peruvian demonstrators demanding a greater share of mining taxes release 48 police officers they were holding hostage.
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Kenyan farmers use lethal insecticide to ward off predators
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Malaysian lawmakers say they will present a motion of no confidence in beleaguered leader Abdullah Badawi.
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The US military blames a rogue Shia militia for Tuesday's deadly car bombing in a Shia area of Baghdad, as the death toll rises.
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The Mississippi river bursts through a levee in Illinois and threatens to break 27 more through the American Midwest.
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Gambian footballers accuse their Algerian opponents of saying they are "terrorists" who will blow up the Gambian hotel.
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Russian officials charge three men over the killing of journalist and Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya in 2006.
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Police in Italy arrest more than 30 suspected members of Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebel group in a series of raids across the country.
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Turkey keeper Volkan Demirel is given a two match ban after being red carded against the Czech Republic.
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The leader of Cambodia's main opposition party faces possible prosecution - just weeks before a general election.
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S Koreans explain their protests against US imports
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China and Japan reach an agreement in a long-running dispute over a gas field in the East China Sea.
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Four British soldiers are killed in Afghanistan when as their vehicle is caught in an explosion, the Ministry of Defence says.
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One of Turkey's most popular singers, Bulent Ersoy, goes on trial accused of turning the public against the military.
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Hindus in the US say they are offended by the Hollywood comedy Love Guru, ahead of its release on Friday.
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The Bangladesh proclamations of independence - drafted on paper during the war against Pakistan in 1971 - go missing, officials say.
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Two policemen are killed in the Somali capital by a roadside bomb minutes after the president's convoy goes past.
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Trucks and tractors converge on the Belgian city ahead of a EU summit to protesting against swelling oil prices.
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What impact will Israel-Hamas deal have?
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The Italian city of Florence is set to revoke the exile imposed on the Renaissance poet Dante Aleghieri.
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Germany coach Joachim Low is banned from the touchline for his side's Euro 2008 quarter-final against Portugal on Thursday.
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Ethnic Chinese people in South Africa are reclassified as black, to benefit from Affirmative Action.
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Swiss TV subtitles the wrong version of the German national anthem during a live broadcast of a Euro 2008 football match.
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Israel's government approves a ceasefire with militant group Hamas following months of bitter clashes in the Gaza Strip.
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A Dutch court considers whether the UN can be sued for failing to stop the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.
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The head of an African observer mission in Zimbabwe warns he will not endorse the run-off if violence continues.
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The government of India's Rajasthan state and leaders of the Gujjar tribe reach a deal over access to jobs and education.
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The UN says it is shocked by a 27% increase last year in the cultivation of coca, the basis for cocaine, in Colombia.
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Nato and Afghan forces launch an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from Kandahar's outskirts.
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France complains to Israel about the treatment of one of its diplomats, who it says was detained at a Gaza crossing.
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The Indian army is called to help civil authorities tackle a worsening flood situation in the states of West Bengal and Assam.
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Spain and South Africa "gave the green" light for a failed coup in Equatorial Guinea, a British mercenary tells a court.
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Canadian police should be banned from using stun guns if current levels of use are not curbed, the force's watchdog says.
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The Mississippi River spills over two more levees in the US Midwest, adding to the region's flood misery.
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The UK effectively ratifies the European Union's reform treaty, hours before an EU summit begins.
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Russia book a quarter-final with the Netherlands after a stylish 2-0 win over Sweden.
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The role of US guns and hitmen in Mexico's drugs war
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President Bush asks the US Congress to end a ban on offshore oil drilling, as fuel prices rise up the political agenda.
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Examinations of 11 former detainees at US military jails show evidence of torture, a human rights group says.
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UN chief Ban Ki-moon says the violence in Zimbabwe could undermine the outcome of the presidential run-off.
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Swiss authorities are to return $74m from frozen accounts of a former Mexican president's brother to Mexico.
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