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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expresses his "immense frustration" at Burma's response to Cyclone Nargis.
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Haiti's parliament rejects the president's choice for a new PM after the last one was sacked over food riots.
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Australian bank St George accepts a takeover offer worth A$19bn from its larger rival Westpac.
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New England manager Martin Johnson names Bath lock Steve Borthwick as skipper for the tour of New Zealand.
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At least 11 people are killed in fighting in Baghdad's Sadr City, just hours after a ceasefire deal was signed.
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Both sides in the Somali conflict are urged to end the crisis as a peace conference opens in Djibouti.
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A US military helicopter makes an emergency landing in Afghanistan amid reports militants shot it down.
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MPs loyal to Ukraine's prime minister prevent President Yushchenko making his annual address to parliament.
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Hamas rejects Israel's demand that the release of captured soldier Gilad Shalit should be part of any truce agreement.
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Credit Agricole considers a 5.9bn-euro rights issue while Societe Generale announces a 23% fall in profits.
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Burma's military junta says it remains opposed to letting in foreign aid workers to help cyclone victims.
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Ministers from one of Pakistan's main parties, the PML-N, resign, just months after elections.
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Malawian police arrest four opposition officials and ex-security chiefs, after claims of a plot against the president.
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Israeli police carry out a second raid in two days to seize papers in a widening corruption probe into PM Ehud Olmert.
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The Lebanese army says it is prepared to use force to disarm gunmen and restore order across the country.
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More than 1.5m Indian children are at risk of malnutrition because of rising food prices, Unicef says.
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At least 40 people are killed after a ferry sinks during a storm in northern Bangladesh, officials say.
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EU diplomats say Lithuania has dropped its veto threat, paving the way for EU strategic partnership talks with Russia.
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The UN urges the setting up of an air or sea corridor to channel aid to the victims of the cyclone in Burma.
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Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg, known for using odd and everyday articles in his work, dies at the age of 82.
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A massive search and rescue operation is under way in China after a huge earthquake that killed more than 12,000.
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The US drops charges against a Saudi held at Guantanamo, who was allegedly part of the 9/11 plot.
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A court in Jordan sentences a man to 10 years in jail for killing his sister - a long term by Jordan's standards.
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EU Aid Commissioner Louis Michel is to travel to Burma after ministers called for free access for relief workers.
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Human rights groups say they fear those arrested after a rebel raid near Sudan's capital may face torture.
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Sweden's Annika Sorenstam announces she will retire at the end of the season.
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At least 60 people are killed after a series of bomb blasts in the historic city of Jaipur in western India, police say.
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A former Kuwaiti emir, Sheik Saad al-Abdullah al-Sabah, dies at the age of 78 after a long illness, state TV reports.
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A senior US diplomat says North Korea appears to have handed over full details of its plutonium programme.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he has reached "points of agreement" with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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Colombia extradites 14 former paramilitary bosses to face drugs charges in the US after they violated a peace deal.
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