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The US lists the polar bear as a threatened species but says the decision will not affect climate change policies.
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Police in India issue a photofit of a man whom they want to question in connection with deadly blasts in Jaipur.
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China ramps up relief efforts with more troops and helicopters as the search for earthquake survivors goes on.
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Separatist rebels in India's troubled north-eastern state of Assam say that they have killed 14 people in two separate attacks.
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At least five policeman and two civilians are killed by a female suicide attacker in western Afghanistan.
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The UN withdraws non-essential staff after clashes in oil-rich Abyei which straddles Sudan's north and south.
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Tortilla prices in Mexico are set to rise by 18% over the next few weeks, an industry group says.
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A US man who posted an internet video taunting police to arrest him is jailed for more than six years in Florida.
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Australia asks Fiji to increase security for its top diplomat after a second "credible" death threat in two weeks.
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Ban Ki-moon is to send a top official to Burma, where the UN says 2.5m people have been affected by the cyclone.
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Israel's intelligence chief says Palestinian militants will soon double the range of rockets they fire from Gaza.
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More than 90% of Burmese voters approve a new constitution in a referendum, state media say.
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A film maker in northern Nigeria who defied Islamic censors faces jail.
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France rejects a request for asylum by the ousted rebel leader of the Comoran island of Anjouan.
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Italian police arrest hundreds of suspected illegal immigrants in raids across the country.
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US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama has been endorsed by former rival John Edwards.
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Pakistan is switching to daylight saving next month to help reduce the effects of power shortages.
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Liberia's Charles Taylor rejected Sierra Leone rebel complaints about his troops' behaviour, an ex-ally says.
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The Nigerian government forced the evictions of 800,000 people from slums in Abuja, a report says.
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The official death toll in Wednesday's storm in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh rises to 94.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas vows to end Israel's occupation of Palestinian territory.
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Countries sending aid to Burma must monitor it closely to stop the junta seizing it, a rights group says.
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The minister in charge of Brazil's rainforest says conservation and economic development go hand in hand.
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Police in Vietnam say they have found nearly nine tons of cannabis in a shipment of blue jeans from Pakistan.
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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama interprets a speech by President Bush as an attack on his foreign policy.
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The Hezbollah opposition pledges to return "normality" to Lebanon, a week after Beirut was engulfed by battles.
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Zimbabwe issues a Z$500m banknote, worth US$2, as the opposition calls for an emergency summit.
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Spanish ministers and royalty attend the funeral of a civil guard killed in a car bombing blamed on Basque separatists.
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A Moscow court jails eight men for a bomb attack on a market that killed 14 people in 2006.
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Brendon McCullum smashes 97 as New Zealand reach 208-6 after a truncated opening day of the series against England.
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Barcelona midfielder Deco could be on his way to England after he is given permission to talk to other clubs.
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Arab League mediators broker a deal aimed at ending fighting in Lebanon that raised fears of a new civil war.
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The Democrat-controlled US House of Representatives rejects a bill to fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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China's government fears more than 50,000 people may have died in the Sichuan earthquake, state media say.
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