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JapanJapan's opposition wins local elections in Tokyo, increasing pressure on embattled Prime Minister Taro Aso.
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United StatesWhat Obama's foreign speeches say about US policy
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United KingdomA British schoolboy has died on holiday in Thailand, after he was reportedly sucked into a swimming pool pumping system.
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Thailand, United KingdomA British schoolboy has died on holiday in Thailand, after he was reportedly sucked into a swimming pool pumping system.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomBritish troops will hold a private service later in Afghanistan to remember those killed there in recent days.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomPublic opinion is almost evenly divided over the UK Afghan mission but support is up since 2006, a new poll suggests.
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ArubaAn Australian woman goes on trial for attempting to kill East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta last year.
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ChinaNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-il has life-threatening pancreatic cancer, a South Korean TV news channel says.
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IndiaThe number of policemen killed in an attack by suspected Maoist rebels in India's Chhattisgarh state rises to 29, police say.
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United StatesThe body of a policeman has been found near the US Freeport mine in Papua, raising the recent death toll there to three.
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BangladeshBangladeshi silt island awaits annual floods
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IndiaAn Indian army colonel and his driver die in a powerful landmine explosion in India's north-eastern state of Assam, officials say.
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BotswanaBrazilian police arrest the wife of ex-world boxing champion Arturo Gatti, after he was found dead in a hotel room.
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JapanJapan's PM Taro Aso is to call a general election for 30 August after poor local poll results in Tokyo, his office says.
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United StatesWhy US state of Tennessee is set to relax its gun laws
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RussiaRussian forces have killed 17 militants in three days in the troubled North Caucasus region, officials say.
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GermanyGerman prosecutors charge alleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk with 27,900 counts of being an accessory to murder.
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LiberiaLawyers for Liberian former President Charles Taylor begin his defence against charges of crimes against humanity.
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NigerLawyers in Niger 'lay down their robes', as the president launches his campaign for a referendum for a third term.
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IsraelAn Israeli-Palestinian war of words heats up, with Israel's foreign minister casting doubt on the Palestinian leader's authority.
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PakistanSeven children are among nine people killed in a blast at a village in Pakistan's southern Punjab province, hospital officials say.
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Georgia, RussiaRussian President Dmitry Medvedev arrives in Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia for the first time since last year's war.
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NetherlandsDutch electronics firm Philips says it will "vigorously oppose" a European Commission probe into LCD flat screen price-fixing.
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AfghanistanPresident Obama says he is examining an alleged 2001 Afghan massacre, amid claims the Bush administration resisted inquiries.
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NigeriaNigeria's most prominent militant group says it has carried out an attack on an oil tanker loading facility near Lagos.
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SudanSeveral Sudanese women are flogged for dressing "indecently" by wearing trousers, according to a local journalist.
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Israel, United KingdomThe UK revokes five export licences to Israel's navy because of the country's actions during its recent operation in Gaza.
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ChinaPolice shoot dead two ethnic Uighurs in China's city of Urumqi, a week after scores of people died in riots, officials say.
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United StatesThe CIA head accused former Vice-President Cheney of hiding an intelligence project from Congress, a US senator says.
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ZimbabweA conference aimed at framing a new constitution for Zimbabwe is broken up by police amid fighting between rival factions.
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IsraelIsraeli transport chiefs spark Arab anger with a plan to replace traditional Arabic names on signposts with Hebrew versions.
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FranceExtra firefighters arrive in a French town where workers have threatened to blow up their bankrupt car factory.
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Iraq, United KingdomA British public inquiry into the death of Iraqi civilian Baha Mousa in UK military custody six years ago opens.
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PakistanPakistani villagers survey the ruins after Buner's battle
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PakistanFamilies displaced by Pakistan's Swat valley conflict start to return home but some still fear for their safety.
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NigeriaFive people are killed in an explosion at a Nigerian oil facility, officials confirm, with a rebel group claiming responsibility.
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IndiaIndia's National Commission for Women asks Madhya Pradesh state why hundreds of would-be brides were reportedly made to undergo virginity tests.
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PakistanSenior Islamic scholars in Pakistan issue a fatwa, or religious decree, declaring the theft of electricity to be a sin.
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PeruPeru's ex-president Alberto Fujimori is on trial for corruption, three months after being convicted of rights abuses.
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NigeriaNigerian militant leader Henry Okah is freed from jail days after accepting an amnesty offer from the government.
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SpainA baby born to the first Spanish woman to die of swine flu has died too - after a medical error, a hospital director says.
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BurmaBurma will release political prisoners to allow them to take part in next year's elections, says Burma's envoy to the UN.
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United StatesThe US budget deficit has moved above $1tn for the first time, nine months into the financial year, official data shows.
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United StatesWaterboarding was carried out by the CIA before legal advice permitting it, a former agent tells the BBC's Panorama programme.
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BangladeshOff-spinner Mahmudullah takes five wickets as Bangladesh record their second ever Test victory against a weakened West Indies.
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United StatesUS waterboarding 'preceded' legal advice
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United StatesSonia Sotomayor states her case for a place on the US Supreme Court to the Senate, stressing "fidelity to the law".
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United StatesThe US space agency Nasa postpones the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour for a fifth time because of bad weather.
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United KingdomMore than 20 Iraqis who worked for UK forces are to sue the government over their protection, the BBC learns.
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SpainTide of migrants wanes with decline of Spain's economy
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North KoreaLackey, brigandish, stooge: N Korea's verbal bluster
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