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PakistanFears sleaze ruling has left Pakistan more polarised
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Israel, 
Gaza StripAid agencies criticise the international community for failing to help end Israel's blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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Aruba, 
AustraliaFarmers in northern Australia say kangaroos are overrunning their land, as a cull is suspended further south.
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IndiaIndian security forces say they have foiled an attempt by militants to infiltrate the border in Indian-administered Kashmir.
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India, 
BangladeshThe West Bengal assembly passes a resolution backing Bangladesh's call for Bengali to be an official UN language.
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RomaniaRomania marks the 20th anniversary of the revolution which ended the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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ChinaBeijing dismisses claims by UK Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband that it blocked progress at the Copenhagen talks.
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United KingdomDundee United boss Craig Levein is likely to be named by the Scottish Football Association as the next Scotland manager on Tuesday.
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Iran, 
United StatesPresident Ahmadinejad rejects as US forgeries papers allegedly showing Iranian plans to test a trigger for a nuclear bomb.
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ChinaThe rights of a Briton facing execution in China for smuggling heroin have been fully respected, officials there say.
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Taiwan, ChinaChina and Taiwan sign the latest in a series of economic deals, amid some disquiet on the island at their closer relationship.
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DenmarkCopenhagen gave few incentives for clean economy
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GreeceA third credit ratings agency downgrades Greek government bonds on worries about the country's high debt levels.
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United StatesThe husband of US actress Brittany Murphy tells a US TV show his wife was suffering from laryngitis before she died.
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FranceCarla Bruni reportedly befriends a homeless man who lives near her home in Paris's chic 16th arrondissement, and often gives him 50 or 100-euro notes.
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PakistanA Pakistani court orders that two men have their noses and ears cut off, after they did the same to a woman they abducted.
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LiberiaLiberia's president issues a decree to pay and protect whistle-blowers as part of her campaign to tackle corruption.
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FranceEurostar resumes operation of high-speed trains through the Channel Tunnel after three days with no service.
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ColombiaThe Caqueta province governor is kidnapped by armed men dressed in uniforms, in an attack officials blame on Farc rebels.
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NetherlandsA Dutch girl barred from sailing solo around the world because of her age returns to the Netherlands with a police escort and faces a custody ruling.
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Iran, United StatesPresident Ahmadinejad has said a document showing plans to test a trigger for a nuclear bomb is a US forgery. What impact will his comments have?
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ChinaA man is jailed for 12 years for killing and eating an extremely rare Indochinese tiger in southern China.
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EthiopiaAn Ethiopian court sentences five people to death and 33 others to life in prison over a plot to kill government officials.
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PolandPolish police take three men who admitted stealing the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from Auschwitz back to the site to re-enact its theft.
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IranA crowd in Iran frees two men just before they are executed, officials say, though the convicts are later captured.
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PakistanA suicide bomber kills at least three people outside a club for journalists in the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar.
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Vietnam, ChinaThe European Union votes to extend tariffs on shoes from China and Vietnam to help European firms compete with imports.
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United StatesThe US economy grew at an annualised rate of 2.2% in the July to September period, the second downwards revision.
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United StatesUS F1 insist they will race in Formula 1 in 2010 despite Bernie Ecclestone casting doubt over their participation
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MadagascarSecurity forces fire tear gas at opposition supporters and leaders as Madagascar's power struggle continues.
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DenmarkReasons why the Copenhagen summit failed
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RussiaEight tigers and a lioness belonging to a Russian travelling circus, die during a 20-hour truck journey across Siberia.
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia's constitution discriminates against Jews and Roma, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.
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Egypt, 
GermanyGermany has said an ancient bust of Queen Nefertiti is too fragile to return to Egypt - even temporarily.
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IranIranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is fired as head of Iran's Arts Institution, one of two public posts he holds.
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NetherlandsArsenal boss Arsene Wenger says he does not expect Dutch striker Robin van Persie to play again this season.
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PolandA Polish prosecutor says the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from Auschwitz was ordered from abroad.
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United StatesThe White House appoints former Microsoft executive Howard Schmidt as its cyber tsar, following a seven-month search.
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ItalyFiat unveils plans to increase annual car production in Italy to one million, but will still shut its Sicily factory.
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United KingdomA man jailed for 30 years for murdering UK student Meredith Kercher has his sentence almost halved on appeal.
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IrelandA brother of Gerry Adams, who is wanted in connection with allegations he abused his daughter, has turned himself into Irish police.
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United StatesUS Secret Service agents arrest a woman accused of threatening to kill Michelle Obama during a family break to Hawaii.
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United StatesThe US parents responsible for pretending their son was adrift in a balloon are ordered to pay the $42,000 rescue bill.
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ColombiaColombia's president says a military operation is under way to rescue a provincial governor from suspected Farc rebels.
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RussiaA spacecraft carrying an international crew docks with the International Space Station, Russian mission control says.
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LithuaniaLithuania hosted at least two secret CIA prisons for terror suspects until 2006, an official Lithuanian inquiry finds.
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