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United StatesThe head of US forces in the Middle East, Adm William Fallon, resigns amid reported differences over Iran.
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ThailandOusted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pleads not guilty to corruption charges in a Bangkok court.
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East TimorEast Timor's President Jose Ramos-Horta speaks in public for the first time since he was shot by rebels.
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IndiaThousands of Indian airport workers begin an indefinite strike affecting operations at many airports.
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Iran, United StatesThe US Mid-East commander's resignation does not signal a policy change on Iran, the Pentagon insists.
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Iran, United StatesThe US Mid-East commander's resignation does not signal a policy change on Iran, the Pentagon insists.
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ColombiaThe Colombian government is considering whether to pay $2.5m to a former rebel who killed his boss last week.
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Equatorial GuineaBriton Simon Mann, accused of plotting a coup in Equatorial Guinea, admits involvement in the conspiracy.
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France, United StatesA French prosecutor seeks manslaughter charges against a US airline over the 2000 Concorde crash.
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UgandaUganda's president says rebel LRA leaders should not be sent to The Hague but should instead face local justice.
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Turkey, 
CyprusThe new Cypriot president and the Turkish Cypriot leader agree to talks on the future of the divided island.
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Australia, United StatesA plastic surgeon wanted in Australia in connection with the deaths of three patients has been arrested in the US.
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PakistanFunerals are held in Pakistan for the victims of two bomb attacks in the eastern city of Lahore.
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Iraq, United StatesThe US says it has killed a number of militants in clashes in the mainly-Shia Muslim city of Kut in southern Iraq.
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ChinaChinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi accuses "anti-China forces" of trying to politicise the Beijing Olympics.
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LibyaAn EU-sponsored centre to help migrants return home is opening in Libya's capital, Tripoli.
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United StatesBarack Obama beats Hillary Clinton in Mississippi's primary, in the fight for the Democrats' presidential nomination.
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Israel, Colombia, 
RussiaA court in Russia has approved the extradition to Colombia of a former Israeli army officer, wanted for training paramilitary groups.
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ArgentinaAn Argentine woman born during military rule seeks her adoptive parents' jailing for kidnap and concealment.
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NigeriaNigerian oil officials are to start digging up a pipeline found at a militant's hideout to see if goes to a refinery.
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AfghanistanAfghan mobile phone companies respond to Taleban attacks by turning off their signal at night in the south.
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United KingdomGoan police are looking for a Briton who could have crucial evidence about the death of 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling.
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IsraelHamas lays out its conditions for a ceasefire with Israel to end the recent violence which has killed at least 125 people.
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RwandaA court rejects an appeal by a priest convicted for his part in Rwanda's genocide and increases his sentence to life.
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FranceThe last of France's surviving World War I veterans, Lazare Ponticelli, dies at the age of 110.
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LiberiaLiberians visiting graveyards on National Decoration Day are shocked by the desecration of tombs.
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Iran, United StatesIran's intelligence minister accuses a leading reformist MP of treason, for talking to a US-funded television station.
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Iraq, 
JordanJordan frees a man said to be the mentor of the late head of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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United StatesTwo more European countries sign accords with the US on visa-free travel, causing potential problems with the EU.
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PeruThe Peruvian meteorite impact that sparked mass panic last year has provided some tantalising new science.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomFour Afghan civilians are killed in an airstrike by British forces, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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South AfricaA report from South Africa's Human Rights Commission says that over a fifth of sexual assaults on children occur in schools.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomFour Afghan civilians are killed in an airstrike by British forces, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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United KingdomPolice in Goa hold a second man in connection with the rape and murder of British teenager Scarlett Keeling.
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Israel, 
West BankIsraeli undercover commandos shoot dead four Palestinian militants in the West Bank town of Bethlehem.
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Equatorial Guinea, 
SpainA Spanish court restores asylum status to exiled Equatorial Guinea opposition leader Severo Moto.
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AfghanistanAn Afghan doctor has become the first ever medic in his war-torn country to qualify as an open-heart surgeon.
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Sri LankaThe arrest of five Sri Lankan journalists by anti-terrorist police alarms media rights campaigners.
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