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Food starts to appear in shops - if you have US dollars
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The family of murdered teacher Lindsay Ann Hawker return to Japan on the second anniversary of her death.
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Venue change dents ambitions of chief of India's IPL
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Bangladesh's government bans people suspected of war crimes during the independence war in 1971 from travelling abroad.
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A plane crashes in the US state of Montana, aviation officials say, killing at least 16 people including children.
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Eleven people were arrested in Paris after clashes between groups for and against the Pope's stance on condom use.
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A cargo plane bounces on the runway and bursts into flames as it lands near Tokyo, killing the two people onboard.
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The candidate for Macedonia's ruling conservative party takes the lead in presidential elections praised for their lack of violence.
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A Chinese man who masterminded a massive pyramid scheme in Beijing has been jailed for 15 years.
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Three senior police officers in Mozambique are arrested after 13 people suffocated in an overcrowded police cell.
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Scars of Nato assault remain in city, 10 years on
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish party Shas agrees to join the coalition being formed by Israeli PM-designate Benjamin Netanyahu.
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A car bomb defused outside a shopping centre in Haifa contained a "huge quantity" of explosives, Israeli police say.
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Sudan's president, who is facing war crimes charges, is warned against travelling to a summit by clerics worried for his safety.
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Residents of Marysville, one of the towns worst hit in Australia's recent devastating bushfires, are allowed to go home.
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The sole known surviving suspect from last year's Mumbai attacks appears at an Indian court on a video link at the start of his trial.
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Top bosses at French bank Societe Generale hand back stock options, after public criticism and government pressure.
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Spain says it will withdraw most of its 600 troops from Kosovo by the end of this summer, despite widespread criticism.
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US envoy on why Afghan challenge is 'hardest thing'
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A Chinese director is planning to stage a musical based on the founding text of communism, Karl Marx's Das Kapital.
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The world's cheapest car goes on sale in India. Will it help those aspiring to buy a car or will it hurt the environment?
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Hundreds of thousands of flamingos and other wildlife are at risk after five forest fires erupted in Kenya, officials say.
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Can Obama really come up with new Afghan strategy?
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India's BJP refuses to drop a Gandhi descendant as a candidate despite anti-Muslim accusations by election authorities.
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Rising violence in South Asia is increasingly endangering the safety of journalists, a US-based media rights group says.
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A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to a 1977 killing is charged with murder after recovering, media say.
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A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to a 1977 killing is charged with murder after recovering, media say.
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Archbishop Tutu and FW De Klerk condemn South Africa's government for refusing a visa for the Dalai Lama.
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Malawi's former president challenges the electoral commission's decision to bar him from running in May's polls.
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A powerful roadside bomb in Lebanon kills a senior Palestinian official and three others, close to a refugee camp.
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The Malaysian government bans two main opposition newspapers in the run-up to key political developments.
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Iraq's president tells Kurdish guerrillas using north Iraq as a base for attacks on Turkey to lay down their arms or leave.
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President Barack Obama says the US must have an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, despite sending more troops there.
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Researchers at a meeting in the US claim renewed evidence for the long-discredited idea of fusion at room temperature.
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A prominent Kremlin critic, running for mayor of the Russian city of Sochi, says assailants squirted ammonia in his face.
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France is launching a commission to investigate ways of measuring the country's ethnic make-up for the first time.
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A suicide bomb attack on a police station in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, kills one policeman and injures another.
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The idea of curbing climate change by seeding the seas with iron gets a knock-back from a big Southern Ocean investigation.
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On patrol with the army in Mexico's war on drugs
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India's Tata Motors launches the 100,000-rupee ($1,980) Nano, the world's cheapest car, as it seeks to boost its own fortunes.
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The Israeli army describes a craze of printing violent imagery on T-shirts as "tasteless" and inconsistent with army values.
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The European Commission is to give Ireland and the UK until 2013 to bring their swelling budget deficits into line with EU rules.
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The European Commission is to give Ireland and the UK until 2013 to bring their swelling budget deficits into line with EU rules.
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Nelson Mandela's ex-wife Winnie is allowed to stand in next month's general election, South African election officials say.
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The US Treasury unveils a bank bailout plan worth up to $1 trillion, triggering surges of 7% on key Wall Street share indices.
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UN human rights investigators question the legality of Israel's Gaza offensive in a wide-ranging report.
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Mount Redoubt volcano in the US state of Alaska has erupted, sending ash some 15km into the air, officials say.
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At least 25 people have been killed by a suicide bomb attack on a Kurdish funeral in the Iraqi province of Diyala, police say.
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Cycling legend Lance Armstrong fractures his collarbone in Spain's Vuelta Castilla y Leon and is a doubt for the Giro d'Italia.
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Mexico's attorney general says it will pay a $2m reward for information leading to the arrest of its top 24 drug lords.
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How falling prices devastated Japan's economy
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