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Chile calls an emergency meeting of the Union of South American Nations to help resolve the crisis in Bolivia.
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A boat with at least 10 people on board hits a bridge pillar on the River Seine in Paris, causing injuries, French police say.
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A group of six women begin a charity swim across the English Channel to raise money for maternity hospitals in Afghanistan.
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Israel's centre-right opposition eyes return to power
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Indian police say they have detained several people a day after bomb blasts killed at least 20 people in the capital Delhi.
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A huge search and relief operation is under way in Texas, after the US state was hit by powerful Hurricane Ike.
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The former leader of Nepal's Maoist rebels, Prachanda, is to make his first official visit to India since becoming prime minister.
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A father and son die after a tourist boat hits a bridge on the River Seine in Paris and sinks, police say.
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Why American presidents never match up to hopes
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A Chinese firm whose tainted milk powder made babies ill was urged to withdraw the product, its New Zealand partner says.
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Turkmenistan says gun battles in the capital involved drug traffickers and not Islamic militants, as some reports claim.
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Sebastian Vettel wins the Italian Grand Prix ahead of Heikki Kovalainen, with Felipe Massa sixth and Lewis Hamilton seventh.
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Emergency talks to prevent Alitalia's collapse are delayed in Rome, as the airline warns it may have to cancel flights.
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Sebastian Vettel secures his and the Toro Rosso team's maiden Formula One victory by winning the Italian Grand Prix as Britain's Lewis Hamilton finishes seventh.
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Pope Benedict XVI tells tens of thousands of pilgrims in the French town of Lourdes that love can be stronger than evil.
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Militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta declare war on the government after clashes at oil facilities.
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US presidential hopeful Barack Obama raises $66m of election money in August, making it his best month for fundraising.
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Negotiations restart to find a buyer for troubled US bank Lehman Brothers before a Sunday night deadline.
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A Russian airliner that crashed in the Urals with the loss of 88 lives caught fire in mid-air, reports say.
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A British couple are given a hotel bill for almost £1,000, despite having already paid for their XL holiday.
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A suspected bomb has gone off near the international airport in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua, police say.
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Investigators believe an engine fault probably caused the crash of a Russian airliner in which 88 people died.
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Tense days in Bolivia's opposition heartland
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Russia's foreign minister says on a visit to Abkhazia that Moscow's actions in the region were the only way to guarantee security.
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A curfew is imposed in Houston to prevent looting in the wake of Hurricane Ike that hit the US city and many other parts of Texas.
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A Turkish ferry carrying about 150 people sinks near the north-western port of Bandirma, leaving at least one person dead.
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A Turkish ferry carrying about 150 passenger sinks near the north-western port of Bandirma, with one person reported dead.
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How resurgent Russia affects Trans-Dniester
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