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IrelandThe Irish parliament reviews its house rules after a lawmaker's expletive-ridden outburst.
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VietnamAdapting to climate change in Vietnam's Mekong Delta
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United StatesPresident Barack Obama tells US bankers to increase business loans, and warns them not to thwart regulatory reform.
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DenmarkClimate negotiators work overnight in Copenhagen to try to rescue a deal and end a rift between rich and poor countries.
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VenezuelaLife 10 years after Venezuela's 'worst natural disaster'
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Tonga, 
FijiAt least three people are dead as Cyclone Mick rips through Fiji's main island, before heading for Tonga.
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Cuba, United StatesCuba's former leader Fidel Castro tells a summit of leftist regional heads that the US is plotting the overthrow of Latin American left-wing governments.
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YemenHuman rights campaigners say the Yemeni government has unlawfully killed secessionists in the south of the country.
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Sierra LeoneSierra Leone traditionalists besiege a woman's house and stop her going home after she tried to become a chief.
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GreeceGreece's prime minister tries to rally opposition backing for austerity measures aimed at tackling its economic crisis.
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AustraliaAustralia plans new laws forcing Internet Service Providers to filter out access to content that has been "refused classification".
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Afghanistan, 
United Arab Emirates, 
United Kingdom, United StatesIreland and Scotland are grouped with Afghanistan and the USA at the ICC World Twenty20 qualifier in the United Arab Emirates from 9 to 13 February.
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AfghanistanAt least eight people die in a suicide bombing in Kabul, as President Hamid Karzai opens an anti-corruption meeting there.
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China, United StatesChina rejects calls from the US and the EU to release a prominent dissident as interference in its internal affairs.
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama summons Democratic senators to seek ways of ensuring the passage of healthcare reform.
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ItalySilvio Berlusconi's attacker had been waiting for him hours ahead of the assault in a Milan square, Italy's interior minister says.
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AfghanistanRepresentatives from the International Red Cross pay their first visit to prisoners held by the Taliban in Afghanistan, officials say.
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India, 
Sri LankaIndia beat Sri Lanka by just three runs in a sensational first one-day international which saw the second-highest aggregate of runs scored in a limited overs game.
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SomaliaAt least three Somali police officers are killed by a roadside bomb in the port city of Bossaso in the Puntland region.
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PhilippinesAt least nine rebels and one soldier are killed in fighting on southern Mindanao island, an army spokesman says.
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ChadGovernment forces bomb rebels after attacks in eastern Chad in the region's first major battle since May.
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IndiaProtesters bring Indian-administered Kashmir to a standstill amid claims that a federal inquiry into the deaths of two women is a cover-up.
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IraqA series of car bombings in Iraq kill at least eight people and wound scores in Baghdad and Mosul.
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TurkeyTwo people are shot dead and several wounded during a pro-Kurdish demonstration in south-east Turkey, local media report.
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GermanyFilm-maker Roman Polanski's latest feature, The Ghost Writer, is to premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February.
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YemenCrises multiply for beleaguered Sanaa government
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DenmarkNegotiations at the Copenhagen summit are progressing too slowly, the United Nations' climate chief warns.
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FranceLiberte, Egalite, Obesite: Fighting flab the French way
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France, 
SudanA France-Africa summit is put back and moved to prevent Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir attending.
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IranIran denies a report in the Times newspaper that it has been working on a key component of a nuclear bomb.
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ChileA Chilean weightlifter gives birth to a baby boy during a training session, without having known she was pregnant.
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PhilippinesMore than 20,000 people are evacuated from around Mt Mayon in the Philippines, amid fears of a big eruption from the volcano.
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Kenya, 
EritreaThe Eritrean footballers who have gone missing in Kenya are welcome to return home, a minister says.
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Israel, United KingdomIsrael condemns as "cynical" the issuing of a war crimes arrest warrant in the UK for former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni.
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ItalyIn his first message since an attack left him in hospital, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi says love will triumph over hate.
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Israel, United KingdomThe government "urgently" considers legal reforms after a UK court issued an arrest warrant for Israeli politician Tzipi Livni.
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United StatesRenowned US evangelist Oral Roberts, who pioneered religious broadcasting, dies in California at the age of 91.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomTwo British and two Afghan soldiers are killed by a suspected suicide bomber while on patrol in Helmand province.
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United StatesThe US House of Representatives approves a bill forcing broadcasters to limit the volume of television advertisements.
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United StatesBoeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft successfully completes its first test flight in the US.
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama says he is cautiously optimistic a landmark healthcare bill will be passed in the Senate
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PakistanAt least 27 people are killed in a bomb attack in the central Pakistani town of Dera Ghazi Khan, officials say.
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