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ItalyItaly's financial police raid the offices of the country's largest five pasta makers as part of an investigation into alleged price fixing.
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RussiaThe dangers facing Russia's human rights groups
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United StatesPresident Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay.
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Iran, United StatesThe US House of Representatives approves new sanctions against foreign firms that help Iran import oil.
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Denmark, RussiaWhy Copenhagen climate talks leave Russia cold
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Vietnam, RussiaVietnam says it will buy Russian submarines, potentially altering the military balance in the contested South China Sea.
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AfghanistanFive Afghan policemen are killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the western Afghan province of Herat, officials say.
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United KingdomJacques Kallis reaches his century as South Africa build a sizeable total against England at Centurion.
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BangladeshResearchers in Bangladesh reach the final stage of testing new rice varieties which they say will survive the country's floods.
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ZambiaPictures of Zambia's champion female boxer in action
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United StatesAbba are picked to be inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with artists including Genesis and Jimmy Cliff.
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PakistanPakistan displaced feel unwanted in Karachi
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AustraliaAustralia look set for a big total after reaching 339-3 on the first day of the third and final Test against West Indies in Perth.
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CambodiaA United Nations-backed tribunal issues Cambodia's first genocide charges against two former Khmer Rouge leaders.
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France, United KingdomFrance plans to follow the UK and bring in a one-off 50% tax on bankers' bonuses in 2010.
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Afghanistan, 
GermanyGermany opens an inquiry into a strike in Afghanistan that killed up to 142 people, amid calls for the defence minister to resign.
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RussiaYegor Gaidar, the architect of Russia's "shock therapy" market reforms in the early 1990s, dies of a blood clot aged 53.
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NamibiaNamibia opposition parties mount a legal challenge over an election declared largely free and fair by African observers.
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Sudan, 
ArubaA Sudanese migrant becomes the first African-born player to be recruited by an Australian Rules football team.
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ItalyA man has been arrested near the hospital room where Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is being treated, police say.
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Somalia, 
YemenHundreds of Somali refugees are being forced at gunpoint to join rebel fighting in north Yemen, a Somali diplomat has told the BBC.
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United StatesThe US Federal Reserve chairman wins the Time Magazine award for steering the US economy through its worst year since the 1930s.
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BurmaDetained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is allowed a rare meeting with elderly officials of her NLD party.
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IranIran says it has successfully test-fired an improved version of a medium-range missile, drawing Western protests.
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United KingdomMilton Keynes will be part of England's 2018 World Cup bid after being named as a candidate host alongside 11 cities.
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Afghanistan, RussiaNato's secretary general asks Russia to provide helicopters for the Afghan war on his first official trip to Moscow.
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South AfricaJacques Kallis hits a majestic unbeaten 112 as South Africa, put in by England, make an imposing 262-4 on day one of the first Test.
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United StatesIntel, the world's biggest chip maker, is being sued by US authorities, accused of anti-competitive measures.
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Afghanistan, 
IraqIraqi journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and two Afghan reporters held hostage for six days in Afghanistan are released.
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South AfricaSouth Africa's ex-Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, who doubted the link between HIV and Aids, has died.
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United KingdomGordon Brown tells a gay magazine he is pushing for UK civil partnerships to be recognised across the EU - including Eastern Europe.
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IndiaMore than 1,000 followers of an Indian sect pledge to marry female sex workers wanting to escape exploitation.
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ItalyItalian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will spend a fourth consecutive night in hospital as he recovers from an attack, his doctor says.
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France, 
GuineaA Guinean soldier on the run from the authorities admits for the first time that he shot the country's military ruler.
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DenmarkPolice push back protesters trying to break through a perimeter fence at the UN climate summit venue in Copenhagen.
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SwitzerlandAn appeal against a decision by Swiss voters to ban minarets is submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
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PakistanPakistan's top court invalidates an amnesty on corruption, opening the way for allies of the president to be prosecuted.
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North Korea, United StatesUS President Barack Obama sends a personal letter to North Korea's Kim Jong-il, apparently about nuclear talks.
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GreeceA second agency downgrades Greece's credit rating, saying the government's spending cuts will not be enough to trim its debts.
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IraqThe Iraqi government is to offer a cash award for information revealing the location of suicide bomb factories.
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Switzerland, Iran, United StatesSwiss banking group Credit Suisse says it will pay $536m for violating US sanctions against Iran.
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United StatesLA Galaxy striker Landon Donovan is set to join Everton on loan in January after the clubs agree a "deal in principle".
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DenmarkFormal negotiations reopen late in the evening at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen after a delay of nine hours.
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United StatesThe Federal Reserve decides to keep US interest rates on hold at between 0% and 0.25%, as widely expected.
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ParaguayParaguayan President Fernando Lugo agrees to a DNA test as he faces his third paternity suit.
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Democratic Republic of the CongoThe UN envoy to DR Congo says a controversial anti-rebel offensive will be concluded at the end of this month.
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