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The US says it is considering using the National Guard to counter the threat of drug violence spilling over from Mexico.
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Life for villagers who fled fighting in the Philippines
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New pipe sparks conflict between Ethiopian rivals
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One person is confirmed dead and one survivor is found after a helicopter carrying 18 people crashes off Canada's east coast.
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Dank Calais camps where would-be UK migrants live
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Japan orders two warships to set sail for the seas off Somalia where they will join international anti-piracy patrols.
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Venezuela's National Assembly voted to give President Hugo Chavez control of the country's roads, ports and airports.
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The UN's refugee agency says it is to immediately expand its work in areas of Burma's from which Rohingya migrants are fleeing.
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Japanese shares see their sharpest one-day gain of 2009 after the government pledges to outline a stimulus plan by April.
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US President Barack Obama extends sanctions against Iran for one year, saying it continues to pose a threat to US security.
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Ghana fruit salad company seeks to beat trade slump
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Ghana fruit salad company seeks to beat trade slump
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Australia declares a 40-mile stretch of oil-blackened beach along its east coast a disaster zone, after a ship sheds its load.
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Six prisoners in Canada use nail clippers and other makeshift tools to break out of jail while fellow inmates block the guards' view.
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Amsterdam police arrest the main suspect in the gangland killing of six Italian men in the German city of Duisburg in August 2007.
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A six-year-old Indian boy is recovering after doctors removed a two metre (6ft) iron rod that speared him when he fell from a terrace.
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Israel's former President Moshe Katsav says he is being "lynched" by the media and politicians over rape and sexual assault charges.
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Lewis Hamilton's McLaren team admit they cannot match the pace of their Formula One rivals with just 16 days left to go until the first race of 2009.
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A UK resident freed from Guantanamo Bay tells the BBC he would not have faced torture but for Britain's role in his case.
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A former Guantanamo detainee says the British were involved in his torture. Is the UK to blame?
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Guinea's political parties propose dates for elections at the end of this year, after last December's coup.
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China's Premier Wen Jiabao says Beijing can boost its economic stimulus package should the global crisis deepen.
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Pakistani officials say missiles fired by an unmanned US drone have killed at least 24 militants in Kurram, on the Afghan border.
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Baghdad resident on the scarcity of good medical care
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Dissident troops in Madagascar move tanks to the capital in a power struggle between the president and opposition leader.
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Swedish match king whose Kreuger Crash ruined many
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Swedish match king whose Kreuger Crash ruined many
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Andrei Lugovoi, the prime suspect in the murder of Alexander Litvinenko, is set to run for mayor of the Russian city of Sochi.
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Tickets for Michael Jackson's 50-date residency at London's O2 arena sell out in a morning, organisers confirm.
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Heavy rain brings flooding to both sides of the Angola-Nambia border, forcing thousands to leave their homes.
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Sudan's government says it knows the location of three kidnapped aid workers and is in contact with their abductors.
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Switzerland makes concessions on banking secrecy, but insists it will protect account holders from "unjustified watching".
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At least one person is killed and 17 hurt as a fire engulfs a shopping centre in Dhaka, Bangladesh, officials say.
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Austrian police say they have broken an internet child porn ring spanning 170 countries and involving nearly 1,000 people.
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Indian Premier League officials are to submit a second revised playing schedule to the home ministry in order to receive security clearance.
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The head of Sony France and another executive are released after being held captive overnight by staff angry at their severance pay.
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The UK colonel 'spinning plates' in Afghanistan
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A search continues for 16 people missing after their helicopter crashed into the sea off eastern Canada on Thursday.
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Authorities in Pakistan's north-west ban rallies and a protest convoy is halted at Sindh as a crackdown on activists spreads.
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The German teenage gunman who killed 15 people on Wednesday shot a man at a psychiatric clinic where he was to be treated.
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Desperate search of Indian families for loved ones
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Russian security forces shoot dead a man suspected of holding up a bank in western Siberia and reportedly free five hostages.
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American swimming star Michael Phelps says he expects to compete at the London 2012 Olympics, a month after threatening to retire.
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Great caution must be exercised in any talks with Afghan rebels, a think-tank warns Kabul and Washington.
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Dutch authorities release five of the seven people arrested on suspicion of planning to bomb Amsterdam shops.
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Chancellor Alistair Darling plays down talks of a rift between the US and Europe at the G20 meeting of finance ministers.
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Barack Obama's chief economic adviser assures China its $1tn (£0.7tn) worth of investment in the US is safe.
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In a break from Bush administration policy, the US will no longer hold terror suspects as "enemy combatants", officials announce.
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Actions by the Sri Lankan government and the Tamil Tigers may amount to war crimes, the UN says.
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The lawyers of disgraced US financier Bernard Madoff appeal against a judge's decision to send him to jail pending sentencing.
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The US will no longer hold terror suspects as "enemy combatants", officials announce, ending a key Bush administration policy.
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