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Democratic US presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton vows to fight on despite losing North Carolina's primary vote.
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Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame reach the summit of Mount Everest, shown live on Chinese TV.
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Argentina's farmers say they will resume protests over export tax, after talks with the government break down.
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A leading academic predicts China will win more gold medals than the US at the Beijing Olympics.
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The brother of a man who died in a suicide car bomb attack on Glasgow Airport has been deported to India.
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More than half of Indian children under five do not get the health care they need, a report says.
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Pakistan carries out a second successful test of a cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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A spokesman for the Dalai Lama says talks with Chinese officials last week were "open and frank".
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Concerns grow over Burma's reluctance to accept foreign help, with vital food aid unable to enter the country.
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A Colombian army colonel and 14 soldiers are sentenced to up to 54 years for killing undercover police in 2006.
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Three obscenity cases against leading Indian painter MF Husain are thrown out of court.
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Moroccan authorities deny its soldiers deliberately punctured and sank a boat with migrants going to Spain.
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Andrew Harding was reporting on the cyclone disaster when he was suddenly deported and then censured on Burmese television.
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Russia's parliament overwhelmingly approves Vladimir Putin as PM, a day after he stood down as president.
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Burundi's army says it has killed 50 rebel fighters, as the insurgents say they will discuss a ceasefire.
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The Austrian woman held captive by her father was planning to move out shortly before she was locked up.
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The body of a woman killed during clashes in the Gaza Strip is found at her home, Palestinian medics say.
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There is too much violence in Zimbabwe to hold a presidential run-off, a South African observer says.
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In a landmark ruling, a religious court in Malaysia decides that a Muslim convert can leave the faith.
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Nepal reopens Mount Everest to climbers on its side after a Chinese team carries the Olympic flame to the summit.
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Slovakia is told it has passed the test to become the 16th country to join the euro in 2009.
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Matthew Price finds a sense of crisis in the US airline industry with warnings of summer delays.
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A Pakistani soldier is killed in the north-west of the country, casting more doubt on a militants' ceasefire.
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Russia orders the expulsion of two military attaches from the American embassy in Moscow, US officials say.
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Police arrest the parents of a five-year-old Brazilian girl thrown to her death from a sixth-floor window.
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Some 40,000 farm workers and their families have fled their homes in Zimbabwe poll violence, a union says.
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his 21-member cabinet are officially sworn into office.
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The US says it has no permission yet for aid flights to cyclone-hit Burma despite reports of eased access.
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Seventeen militants are killed in clashes over the last 24 hours with US and Iraqi forces, the US military says.
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More activity is detected in Chile's Chaiten volcano as almost all residents leave the area after Friday's eruption.
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The Hezbollah leader accuses Lebanon's pro-Western government of declaring war against the militant group.
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Spain demands a US salvage firm hand over a $500m bounty taken from a sunken Spanish galleon.
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The parliaments in two Baltic states, Latvia and Lithuania, vote to approve the EU's Lisbon Treaty.
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The Mexican policeman in charge of co-ordinating operations against drugs traffickers is shot dead.
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Israel marks 60 years since its creation in 1948, a date the Palestinians remember as "the Catastrophe".
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The UN says it is disappointed at Burma's slow progress in allowing access to victims of last weekend's cyclone.
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A man suspected of sexually abusing boys in South East Asia is arrested in the US after a rare Interpol appeal.
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