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Western Sahara, 
SpainA Western Sahara activist on hunger strike in Spain says she is now refusing all medical care over a passport row with Morocco.
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Denmark, 
United StatesThe EU and UN hail a US declaration that greenhouse emissions harm health, as climate talks are held in Copenhagen.
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Philippines, 
MalaysiaThe Philippine government and a Muslim rebel group re-open peace talks in the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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PakistanThe death toll in two bomb blasts at a busy market in Pakistan's Lahore city rises to 48, police and medics say.
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Pakistan, United StatesAt least three suspected militants are killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.
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North Korea, United StatesThe US envoy to North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, arrives in North Korea for the first high-level Obama administration visit.
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AfghanistanSouth Korea says it will send 350 soldiers to Afghanistan to protect engineers working on reconstruction projects.
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AustraliaAustralia are outplayed on the final day of the Adelaide Test against West Indies but do enough to earn a draw.
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Pakistan, 
IndiaPakistan's top cricketers will miss a second straight Indian Premier League campaign because of delays in securing visas.
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YemenThe Yemeni army says it will soon take the northern city of Saada, as it advances toward rebels barricaded in the old town.
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Gaza StripTwo women and a baby have become the first people to die of swine flu in the Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
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NigeriaNigeria police said to kill innocents like Emmanuel, 13
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JapanJapan agrees a 7.2 trillion yen ($81bn) stimulus package designed to prevent the country from slipping back into recession.
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NigeriaA hospital in Enugu, Nigeria, tells the BBC it is conducting mass burials to cope with the number of corpses brought in by police.
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RussiaRussian PM Vladimir Putin hits out at local officials for safety failures at a nightclub where 118 people died in a fire.
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UgandaUganda's president flies economy class as an example to civil servants, his spokesman says, but some see it as a publicity stunt.
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ChinaEight students are killed and another 26 injured in a stampede in a school stairwell in central China, state media say.
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SudanSudan's shaky north-south peace deal is in serious crisis, according to senior southern politician Pagan Amum.
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Mali, 
Mauritania, SpainAn al-Qaeda offshoot says it kidnapped three Spanish aid workers in Mauritania and a Frenchman in Mali last month.
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TurkeyTurkey's Constitutional Court is considering whether to ban the country's leading Kurdish party, the DTP.
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BangladeshBangladesh says it wants at least 15% of any money pledged to help developing nations cope with climate change.
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MalawiA one-year-old child has died in Malawi after a house collapsed in a series of earthquakes and aftershocks, police say.
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Serbia and MontenegroSerbian President Boris Tadic is fined 400 euros (£360) for toasting Serbia's qualification for the football World Cup with champagne at a stadium.
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Afghanistan, United StatesAfghanistan's President Hamid Karzai warns it will take 15 years before the country is able to fund its own security forces.
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Cambodia, 
ThailandCambodia jails a man for seven years for spying on the Thai ex-PM, amid tension between the two neighbours.
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IsraelEU ministers call for Jerusalem to serve as the capital of both Israel and a future Palestinian state in a negotiated peace deal.
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ChileOutsider blows Chile's election wide open
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Iraq, 
United KingdomEx-spy chief Sir John Scarlett says there was "no conscious intention" to manipulate Iraq WMD intelligence.
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United StatesPresident Obama sets out proposals aimed at boosting employment, including winding up the US bank bail-out fund.
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PakistanA gun and bomb attack on an office of Pakistan's intelligence agency in the city of Multan kills at least 12 people, police say.
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Iran, United StatesTehran accuses the US of abducting a nuclear scientist who has been missing since June.
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United StatesA convicted Ohio man becomes the first person to be executed in the US with a single dose of a lethal drug.
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GuineaGuinea's military government says it is "hunting down" and arresting the plotters behind last week's shooting of the junta's leader.
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NetherlandsA former member of the Nazi SS admits in court that he killed three Dutch civilians in 1944, but says he was following orders.
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United KingdomUnirea Urziceni head coach Dan Petrescu is to hold talks on the vacant Scotland manager's job this week.
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SpainMichael Owen scores a hat-trick as Man Utd win at Wolfsburg, Chelsea draw and Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and AC Milan reach the last 16 of the Champions League.
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GreeceContinuing worries over Greece's high public debt levels cause Greek shares to fall 6% as the country's credit rating is cut.
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IraqA series of car bombings kills at least 127 people in Baghdad in what officials say is a bid to destabilise Iraq.
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United StatesUS lender CIT Group's reorganisation plan is approved by a judge, paving the way for it to exit bankruptcy protection within days.
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Egypt, United KingdomEgypt's head of antiquities will drop a demand for the permanent return of the Rosetta Stone if the British Museum agrees a loan.
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BrazilHuman Rights Watch accuses Brazil's police of routinely killing suspects and covering up the deaths as self-defence.
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CyprusJohn Obi Mikel's late mistake allows Apoel Nicosia to grab a late equaliser against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
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HondurasThe head of anti-drug operations in Honduras is shot dead by attackers who opened fire on his car in the capital, Tegucigalpa.
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United StatesOil prices fall for the fifth day in a row, weighed down by a stronger US dollar and amid concerns over demand.
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United StatesThe US government settles a case over royalties owed to American Indians after a dispute which originated in 1887.
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