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A Dutch vessel is reportedly hijacked by pirates off Somalia in the latest attack in notoriously dangerous seas.
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Protesters and police clash in South Korea amid mounting public anger at the relaxation of a ban on US beef.
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The football team Bayern Munich becomes one of the first major European clubs to play in India.
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Makers of Blackberry phones reject India's demands that it be allowed to spy on suspicious text messages.
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Chinese troops work to ease pressure on a rising "quake lake" in Sichuan province, amid fears of floods.
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The number of deaths in a wave of violence against foreigners in South Africa reaches 56, with 650 injured.
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Canada's foreign minister quits for leaving classified papers in an unsafe place, said to be an ex-girlfriend's flat.
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A roadside bomb hits a bus in western Afghanistan, killing eight passengers, officials say.
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Iran's former nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani is poised to take the influential role of parliament speaker.
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Children as young as six are being sexually abused by peacekeepers and aid workers, says a UK charity.
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The European Court of Human Rights rejects an HIV-positive Ugandan woman's claim to stay in the UK.
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American film director Sydney Pollack, who won two Oscars for Out of Africa, dies of cancer at the age of 73.
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Another 80,000 people are being evacuated in China from near a swollen "quake lake", state media say.
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Officials from five countries around the Arctic meet in Greenland to discuss how to divide the region's vast natural reserves.
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Mexico gives its poorest citizens a monthly cash payment to help them cope with rising food prices.
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De Beers is moving part of its diamond sorting operation from London to Gaborone in Botswana.
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A US businessman says he gave cash-stuffed envelopes to Israel's prime minister but denies corruption.
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A French skydiver's attempt to break the world free fall record fails when his balloon takes off without him.
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About 30 passengers have been trapped inside a bus that has plunged into a river in South Africa, officials say.
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Authorities in a small Australian town reject proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there.
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Russia's prosecutor-general admits that the country wrongly charges thousands of people each year.
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A Jewish group's trip to Egypt is cancelled after rumours they planned to reclaim property causes upset.
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Malaysia is to restrict fuel sales to foreign motorists on its borders to curb the spiralling cost of subsidies
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South Africa saw its economic growth slow sharply in the first quarter of this year to 2.1%, data shows.
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One of Argentina's most feared army chiefs goes on trial for crimes committed during military rule in the 1970s and 80s.
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France's president suggests the EU could cap the level of tax on fuel, as protest at rising prices spread.
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Football's governing body suspends restrictions on the playing of internationals at altitude after South American lobbying.
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Burma's ruling junta has renewed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest.
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Two further aftershocks destroy 420,000 homes in the Chinese area hit by the recent quake, state media say.
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Spanish twins separated at birth after a hospital mistake seek millions of euros in damages.
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Brazil's new Environment Minister Carlos Minc takes office as economic pressure on the Amazon region rises.
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A medical charity warns of health risks in camps for the victims of attacks against foreigners in South Africa.
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Turkey launches a $14.5bn plan aiming to ease the poverty that feeds Kurdish separatism in the south-east.
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The German capital, Berlin, inaugurates a memorial to honour homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis.
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Guinea's authorities agree to pay soldiers salaries they claim not to have received since 1996.
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