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Nationalists fall short of a majority in Spain's Basque Country regional poll, while the Socialists lose in Galicia.
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The 12th Century Indian fort still home to 5,000
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Chronicling life and death on the US-Mexico border
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Bangladesh takes back 49 boatpeople allegedly returned to the sea by Thai authorities and rescued by Indian coastguards.
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The governing United Russia party leads in all regional polls held across Russia on Sunday, electoral officials say.
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Indonesia's president says Islamic finance has advantages over other systems, as the World Islamic Economic Forum opens.
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Uruguay turns to art to promote its amethyst industry
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Rescuers race to save dozens of pilot whales and dolphins beached on King Island, Tasmania, Australia.
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Sri Lanka's foreign minister tells the BBC that a ceasefire with Tamil Tiger rebels would only allow them to regroup.
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Former Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra cancels a speech in Hong Kong, amid pressure from Thailand for his extradition.
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Washington could offer more military help to Mexico to battle violent drug-smuggling cartels, the US defence secretary says.
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A Los Angeles clinic courts controversy by offering would-be parents the chance to select traits like the eye, skin and hair colour of their offspring.
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Colombia's Farc rebels: fading force or still a threat?
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The Bangladesh army launches a manhunt for border guards who mutinied in Dhaka last week, killing about 140 army officers.
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German carmaker Opel is in talks with the country's economy minister about a cash injection from the government.
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North Korea and the US-led United Nations Command in South Korea hold their first talks in almost seven years.
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An Australian cinema chain is to resume screenings of a film about race riots pulled after a violent reaction from audiences.
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China publishes a white paper praising its rule in Tibet and accusing the West of trying to inflame tensions there.
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Eyewitness account of Guinea-Bissau leader's killing
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Sales of new vehicles in Japan in February fall by almost a third, new figures reveal.
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Alastair Cook hits his eighth Test century as England reach 233-2, a 84-run lead, at tea on day five of the fourth Test in Barbados.
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The Israeli government has plans for 73,000 new settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement group says.
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India's parliamentary elections will run from 16 April to 13 May, the country's Election Commission announces.
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A bottle discarded at a waste site in the north-western US contains the world's oldest sample of bomb- grade plutonium, scientists say.
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Tanzania launches a nationwide exercise inviting the public to identify those behind dozens of murders of people with albinism.
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Mitchell Johnson leads a fine performance by Australia's seam attack as the tourists secure a 162-run win over South Africa in the first Test.
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The chief minister of Pakistan's North West Frontier Province makes his first visit to Swat since a key peace deal with militants.
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Italian MPs are offered coffee breaks in a bid to persuade them to use a new electronic fingerprint voting system.
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Heavy snow sweeps the eastern coast of the United States, closing schools and disrupting flights and roads.
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A Chinese man who won two looted bronze sculptures at a Paris auction refuses to pay - as an "act of patriotism".
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Iraqi former official Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as Chemical Ali, is given his third death sentence by an Iraqi court.
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A female Rwandan MP and member of the Tutsi-led governing party is sentenced to life imprisonment for genocide.
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International donors pledge $4.5bn in aid to the Palestinians, chiefly to rebuild Gaza, after Israel's recent offensive.
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Pope Benedict formally rescinds the promotion of an Austrian conservative priest whose appointment led to protests.
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New Zealand take on India in the first one-day international in Napier.
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A German state governor is charged with manslaughter over a collision on an Austrian ski slope in which a woman died.
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Insurance giant AIG reports the largest quarterly loss in corporate history as global stock markets tumble.
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The president of Guinea-Bissau is shot dead by soldiers, officials say - an apparent revenge attack for the killing of the army chief.
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Thousands of mourners attend a state funeral in Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, for army officers killed in last week's mutiny.
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The CIA destroyed 92 videotapes of interviews with terror suspects, a US government lawyer admits.
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Young women in India are more than three times as likely to die in a fire as young men, a study published in the Lancet says.
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Alastair Cook makes his eighth Test century as England bat out day five to draw the fourth Test against West Indies in Barbados.
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Guinea-Bissau - one of most unstable states
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European stock markets are among those to make big falls amid fears of a further turn for the worse in the global economy.
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At least eight gold miners are killed in a landslide caused by heavy rain in Peru's southern Puno region.
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The army in Guinea-Bissau vows to respect a constitutional handover, following the assassination of the president.
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Bangladeshi officials say 74 people died in last week's border guard mutiny, halving the death toll originally given.
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