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United StatesUS lawmakers voice stiff opposition to a planned bail-out of the US banking system, after a five-hour Senate hearing.
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United StatesUS Republican running-mate Sarah Palin meets world leaders for the first time in a crash course in foreign policy.
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PakistanUS President Bush says he wants to help Pakistan protect itself, as he meets his Pakistani counterpart for the first time.
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India, United StatesThe Foreign Relations Committee of the US Senate votes in favour of the India-US civil nuclear deal.
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IranIran will resist "bullying powers" trying to stop its peaceful nuclear ambitions, its president tells the UN General Assembly.
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SingaporeSingapore's High Court has ruled that the Far Eastern Economic Review magazine defamed Singapore's rulers.
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IndiaThe Indian navy joins rescue efforts in the state of Orissa where hundreds of thousands are still marooned.
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BotswanaPresident Rafael Correa orders a Brazilian construction firm's assets to be seized in a row over the closure of a major dam.
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EgyptFive Palestinian smugglers die in what officials in Gaza say was an Egyptian anti-smuggling operation.
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Vietnam, 
ChinaChina evacuates 100,000 people in the path of typhoon Hagupit, while Vietnam readies itself for floods.
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NigeriaNigerian oil militants, who recently declared a ceasefire, accuse the army of attacking their allies' camps.
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JapanTaro Aso is confirmed as Japan's new PM, but by a divided parliament, reflecting the scale of the political challenge he faces.
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United StatesThe FBI begins a probe into four major US financial institutions caught up in the current financial crisis, reports say.
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Argentina, 
VenezuelaA key witness tells a Miami court that alleged attempts to smuggle campaign funds from Venezuela to Argentina involved $5m.
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France, 
United KingdomFrench energy firm EDF says it will buy UK nuclear power plant operator British Energy in a £12.5bn deal.
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France, 
RwandaProminent French writer Pierre Pean is on trial in Paris accused of inciting racial hatred in a book on Rwanda's genocide.
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IndiaA court in western India sentences six men to death for killing four members of a lower-caste Dalit family in 2006.
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IndiaIndia's Supreme Court upholds a ruling that leprosy patients cannot contest elections or hold municipal office in Orissa state.
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Hong KongThe Bank of East Asia is hit by worried depositors trying to remove their savings from its branches in Hong Kong.
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North KoreaSeals that stopped North Korea from using its main nuclear plant are removed, amid a dispute with the US over an aid deal.
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ChinaChina's chief food safety official seeks to reassure consumers that milk tainted with melamine no longer poses a problem.
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TurkeyTurkish singer Bulent Ersoy is defiant in court after being accused of turning the public against the military.
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South AfricaSouth African stock market traders are bracing themselves for further falls after finance minister Trevor Manuel's resignation this week.
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ItalyAmerica's Amber Neben wins the women's time trial gold medal at the World Road Championships in Italy.
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IraqIraq's parliament passes a law paving the way for provincial elections, ending long debates over the city of Kirkuk.
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IraqAt least 20 people are reported killed in an ambush in Diyala province, to the north-east of Baghdad, officials say.
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IraqAt least 20 people are reported killed in an ambush in Diyala province, to the north-east of Baghdad, officials say.
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Egypt, 
SudanSudanese officials say European tourists and Egyptian guides kidnapped last Friday are well, but rule out a military rescue.
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JapanA "people's airbag" invented in Japan promises to protect older people from injury if they fall - but only if they fall backwards.
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Afghanistan, Pakistan, United StatesThe Pakistani army says it is investigating the wreckage of a suspected US spy plane found near the Afghan border.
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IndiaIndia's labour minister apologises after appearing to support sacked workers who allegedly beat their former boss to death.
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SomaliaThousands of Somalis flee some of the worst violence in the capital, Mogadishu.
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France, 
Aruba, 
AustraliaSeven-times Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong will make his cycling comeback with Kazakhstan's Astana team.
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RwandaA former investigator at the Rwanda tribunal gets life in jail for his role in the 1994 genocide.
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North KoreaThe White House calls on North Korea to reverse a decision barring UN monitors from its main nuclear site.
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FinlandFinland must tighten its gun laws following a school shooting that left 10 people and the gunman dead, the PM says.
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United StatesThe head of the US Federal Reserve urges Congress to "act quickly" to support a $700bn bail-out plan for financial markets.
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Israel, IranIsraeli President Shimon Peres tells the UN General Assembly that Iran is "at the centre of violence and fanaticism".
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Liberia, United StatesThe son of former Liberian leader Charles Taylor goes on trial in the US, accused of torture.
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United KingdomTrain services are suspended on a busy rail route linking London and Scotland as police investigate a firearms incident.
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