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France is resisting the credit crunch better than most
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Plague of rats spells starvation for Burmese villagers
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Burmese are pessimistic one year after protests
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Namibian mine reveals ancient Portuguese ship
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Indian PM Manmohan Singh meets George Bush amid frantic efforts to win US Congressional support for a civilian nuclear deal.
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One person dies and several others are injured in fresh violence in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, a police official says.
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McLaren's Lewis Hamilton says he has learned from the errors he made last year and is better prepared for the climax of this Formula One season.
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Brazil sets out a plan to end net deforestation by 2015, but with no targets on emission cuts.
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Repression in Burma has grown amid international inaction on the anniversary of a crackdown, says a leading rights group.
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Growth shrank in New Zealand in the first half of the year, says a government agency, sending the economy into recession.
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How food and politics merge in the US South
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Experts discuss how to restore US's damaged image
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Far-right hopes for return to power in Austria
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British, Swiss and EU central banks take co-ordinated action to lend billions of dollars of extra cash to banks.
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Turkish warplanes have attacked suspected Kurdish rebel targets in northern Iraq in an overnight raid.
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A group of Nigerian businessmen says it is finalising its bid to buy English football team Newcastle.
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George Bush told Israel's prime minister in June the US would not back an attack on Iran, a newspaper reports.
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South African Aids activists rejoice as a new health minister replaces "Dr Beetroot".
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The widow and a sister of the two ministers killed in a plane crash in June have won by-elections in Kenya's Rift Valley Province.
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Resource-rich Russia and Venezuela agree to draw up an energy pact as their leaders meet.
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At least nine people are killed in fighting in the Somali capital, as crowds loot food aid supplies.
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Sir Paul McCartney plays his first gig in Israel, 43 years after The Beatles were banned from performing in the country.
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Malaysia's ruling party delays a leadership poll in an apparent attempt to hasten the transition of power away from PM Abdullah.
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US political leaders say more work is needed on a $700bn bail-out plan for financial markets after White House talks.
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Police in Germany board a Dutch plane at Cologne airport to arrest two men suspected of planning attacks, officials say.
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Palestinians protest in the West Bank against what they fear is an Israeli plan to re-open a controversial rubbish dump.
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Police in Brazil finally catch up with a serial speeder who owed $1.9m (£1m) in traffic fines.
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Turkmenistan approves a new constitution that supporters say will promote multi-party politics and the market economy.
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Pakistani troops killed 1,000 militants in a huge offensive in the Bajaur tribal district over the past month, the army says.
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Austrian incest suspect Josef Fritzl is taken back to the cellar where he kept his family for the first time since his arrest.
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Sri Lanka's powerful defence secretary says the government is on the verge of victory against Tamil Tiger rebels.
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Fernando Alonso's stunning drive sees him top the time charts in second practice at the Singapore Grand Prix.
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Swazi police tighten security, after findings bombs near railways, bridges and roads.
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Pirates off the coast of Somalia have seized a Ukrainian ship carrying 33 tanks, officials say.
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More than 100 labourers kidnapped this week by the Afghan Taleban are freed, officials and militants say.
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A Chinese sweet maker stops domestic sales of one of its best-known brands after it is found to contain an industrial chemical.
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North Korea is reportedly seeking military talks with South Korea next week - its first official contact in months.
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The UN inquiry into Syria's nuclear activities has been delayed by the assassination of a key contact, the UN says.
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The UN Security Council is poised to vote on a draft resolution on Iran which reaffirms existing sanctions over its nuclear work.
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US White House hopeful John McCain will attend a presidential debate with Barack Obama, his campaign says.
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces plans to build a "guaranteed nuclear deterrent system" by 2020.
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Pakistan's president says US support of his country is a "blessing", a day after a brief clash on the Afghanistan border.
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President George W Bush says US lawmakers will pass his administration's financial rescue plan despite disagreements.
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A Libyan official says European tourists kidnapped in Egypt are not in Libya, as was claimed earlier this week.
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The US Congress recommends that a pardon be granted to the first black heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson.
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Morocco shuts down an association belonging to a religious leader who said girls as young as nine years old could marry.
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