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US scientists have produced new evidence suggesting eating lots of red and processed meat damages health.
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Why Dutch Christians have issues with the EU
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A Dutch court finds a Rwandan Hutu guilty of lethal torture during the 1994 genocide, but not of war crimes.
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Three British divers accused of stealing treasure from a shipwreck are due to appear in court in Spain.
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A Hindu man's fight to allow bodies to be burned in open-air cremations in England and Wales is due at the High Court.
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The UN says the detention of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi breaks domestic laws as well as international norms.
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Gordon Brown will begin a pre-G20 tour to rally support for his plans to tackle the global downturn, with an address to the European Parliament.
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Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd arrives in the US for his first meeting with President Barack Obama.
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South Korea says it has reached a provisional free trade deal with the European Union after two years of talks.
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Bridget Kendall: West should set an example to Iran
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Hostility between the Indonesian army and former rebels in Aceh is at its highest since a 2005 peace deal, as elections near.
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Pakistan's chief justice celebrates his return to work in Islamabad after mass protests forced his reinstatement.
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Pressure grows on Madagascar's army-backed leader
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India's governing Congress party appeals for a new term of office so it can continue to work for economic growth.
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Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic appears to have passed its peak, say the World Health Organization.
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The number of state executions almost doubled worldwide in 2008, with China accounting for most deaths, Amnesty says.
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Asian shares gain ground in Tuesday trading, taking heart from a US plan to deal with banks' toxic assets.
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North Korea warns that any UN sanctions over its planned rocket launch would trigger the end of talks on its denuclearisation.
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Three former ministers, including a prime minister, are arrested by Guinea's military authorities.
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Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa runs out of Coca-Cola as the credit crunch takes the fizz out of the economy.
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Defenders David Weir and Kirk Broadfoot and winger Kris Commons have withdrawn from the Scotland squad.
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An Italian surgeon is recovering after completing a brain operation despite suffering an angina attack during the procedure, reports say.
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An Italian surgeon is recovering after completing a brain operation despite suffering an angina attack during the procedure, reports say.
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A UN report says Israeli troops used a Palestinian boy, 11, as a human shield during its Gaza offensive, among other violations.
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France says it will compensate people who suffered health problems as a result of three decades of nuclear tests.
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The Sri Lankan government condemns what it calls a "vicious coalition" of aid and rights agencies over the civil war.
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China reportedly blocks YouTube because of footage that purports to show soldiers beating monks and other Tibetans.
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Russian Prime Minister Putin condemns as "unprofessional" an EU deal with Ukraine to secure stable gas supplies.
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Follow US agents as they check for drugs from Mexico
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Nine of the 10 executives paid top bonuses by US insurance giant AIG agree to return them, officials say.
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A Sudanese worker with a Canadian aid agency is shot dead in the Darfur region of Sudan.
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Mount Redoubt volcano in the US state of Alaska erupts for the sixth time in 24 hours, after a 20-year lull.
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Mexico is offering a reward of $2 million for informers who help arrest drug lords. Do you think this will work?
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The head of Germany's far-right National Democratic Party goes on trial in Berlin charged with racial incitement.
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A peace conference for Nobel laureates is postponed indefinitely after South Africa refuses the Dalai Lama a visa.
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Beirut approves the appointment of Syria's first envoy, five months after the neighbours set up diplomatic contacts.
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South African police fire rubber bullets at taxi drivers protesting over a new transport system ahead of next year's World Cup.
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Japan's opposition leader says he will not resign despite a close aide being charged in connection with a fundraising scandal.
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Air raid sirens sound and church bells peal across Serbia as it marks 10 years since Nato's bombing campaign.
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Kenya mobilises 3,500 security personnel to fight bush fires in forests across the country.
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A strike by Argentine farmers against an export tax on soya beans - the seventh such stoppage in a year - enters its fourth day.
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Israeli-Arabs clash with police as Jewish Israeli right-wingers march in the Arab town of Umm al-Fahm.
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Defender Ledley King returns to Tottenham to continue his rehabilitation from injury and will play no further part in England's training camp for the matches against Slovakia and Ukraine.
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The Taleban in Pakistan's strife-torn north-western district of Swat take over operations in its emerald mines.
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The ousted Madagascar President Marc Ravalomanana resurfaces in Swaziland.
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Secrets of Irish migrants who died on US railroad
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Lesotho educator's heartbreak over Aids orphans pupils
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UK Prime Minister Brown says a history of co-operation makes Europe "uniquely placed" to lead the fight against recession.
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An Italian court jails a Tunisian pilot who paused to pray before ditching his plane off Sicily's northern coast, killing 16 people.
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A man thought to be Albania's former spy chief is found living on benefits in London under an assumed identity.
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Kyrgyz consider impact of US air base closure
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British forces may be in Afghanistan for five years and civilians for 20 years or more, Britain's new envoy says.
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Opposition parties in Nigeria agree to unite against President Umaru Yar'Adua's PDP.
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Israel's Labour party votes to join a coalition led by Benjamin Netanyahu, who leads the right-wing Likud party.
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The Indian Premier League will now be hosted by South Africa following the decision to move it from India.
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The Czech government loses a vote of confidence in parliament midway through the country's six-month EU presidency.
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The US Federal Reserve boss says he wanted to sue to stop insurer AIG paying millions in bonuses but was advised not to.
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Uber-view German brothers build biggest model railway
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More than a million people in Darfur could go without food by May, a joint Sudanese-UN assessment says.
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Pools of salty water might be able to exist just below the surface of Mars, planetary scientists tell a major US conference.
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