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BotswanaBrazilian city of Salvador faces questions over race
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Denmark, 
United StatesBarack Obama urges the US and EU to re-double efforts to achieve success at the climate change summit in Copenhagen.
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Germany, 
United KingdomScientists identify the most ancient fossil relative of the predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex.
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United StatesA white US justice of the peace who refused to sign a marriage licence for a mixed-race couple has resigned, officials say.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomA former Labour minister calls for the "great majority" of British troops to be withdrawn from Afghanistan.
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Pakistan, 
IndiaIndia's foreign minister denies charges by a Pakistani army official that his country helped militants in South Waziristan.
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IndiaThe Indian PM's office orders an investigation into an incident involving the death of a man in a hospital in Chandigarh city.
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United Kingdom, 
JapanThe man hunted by Japanese police over the murder of a young British woman could have had plastic surgery, say local news reports.
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United StatesUS voters split on Obama, a year after his election
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South AfricaSouth Africa gets its first satire show... only on the web
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GhanaGhana says it will not revoke a deal it made for the state-owned telecoms firm with Vodafone, despite huge criticism.
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United States, 
ChinaUS general says China has made amazing strides in improving its military capabilities in space
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Fiji, 
New ZealandAustralia and New Zealand expel Fijian envoys a day after Fiji expelled their representatives in the military ruled state.
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ChinaThe World Bank raises its forecasts for East Asian growth, largely as a result of an economic rebound in China.
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Burma, United StatesUS envoys meet both Burma's PM and detained leader Aung San Suu Kyi, in the highest level bilateral contact in over 10 years.
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Saudi Arabia, 
YemenRebels from northern Yemen fight their way into Saudi Arabia and hold a mountainous border region.
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CanadaGeneral Motors announces that it has cancelled plans to sell Opel and Vauxhall to Canadian car parts firm Magna.
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United StatesJapan says plans for a meeting between its foreign minister and US secretary of state are scrapped for lack of time.
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VietnamAbout 90 people are now known to have died in severe flooding triggered by a tropical storm, Vietnamese officials say.
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Serbia and MontenegroThe chief prosecutor for the Hague war crimes tribunal visits Serbia to look at progress on finding two remaining fugitives.
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Saudi ArabiaA court in Riyadh rules that a Saudi man convicted of raping five children, will be beheaded and crucified, a Saudi newspaper reported.
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ChinaThe Chinese government approves plans for the Walt Disney company to build a Disneyland in Shanghai.
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Australia, United KingdomJonny Wilkinson will win his first cap for 18 months while Steve Thompson also returns to the England side to face Australia.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomFive British soldiers are shot dead in an attack in Afghanistan, which the UK military blames on a "rogue" Afghan policeman.
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Portugal, United KingdomDavid Cameron denies a U-turn on Europe after being forced to abandon his pledge for a Lisbon Treaty referendum.
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IranAn earthquake strikes Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, injuring hundreds, a state news agency reports.
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VietnamVietnamese use humour to discuss a taboo subject
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AfghanistanFormer Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah says Hamid Karzai's re-election "has no legal basis".
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France, United KingdomThe Conservative's policy on the EU will "castrate" UK influence in Europe, a French minister says. Do you agree?
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Equatorial Guinea, United KingdomFormer UK soldier Simon Mann says he regrets his part in a foiled plot to overthrow the leader of Equatorial Guinea.
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United StatesRepublicans score victories in two key US elections for governor, a year after President Barack Obama was voted in.
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United StatesOne of US President Barack Obama's half-brothers speaks about their "abusive" father at the launch of his first novel.
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PakistanHeavy clashes between Pakistani troops and Taliban fighters are going on in the key town of Ladha in the South Waziristan region, the army says.
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Croatia, 
SloveniaSlovenia and Croatia agree to allow an international panel to resolve a border row that has delayed Croatia's EU membership bid.
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Germany, United KingdomGeneral Motors' decision to hang on to Opel and Vauxhall is welcomed in the UK but met with anger in Germany.
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United StatesTwo towns, two very different faces of the US heartland
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TaiwanHundreds of rare antique glove puppets from Taiwan are destroyed in a warehouse fire.
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United StatesUS Democrats reject claims their defeat in two state polls reflects badly on President Barack Obama, a year after his election.
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IranPolice clash with opposition supporters during a rally in the Iranian capital, Tehran, witnesses and state media say.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomThe Taliban could have infiltrated the Afghan police to kill five British soldiers in Afghanistan, Gordon Brown says.
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Egypt, 
Israel, United StatesPalestinians may have to abandon the goal of an independent state if Jewish settlements continue, their chief negotiator says.
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South AfricaSouth Africa will miss a 2014 deadline to redistribute a third of its farmland to the black majority, the government says.
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AfghanistanSpotlight on troubled police force in Afghanistan
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Equatorial Guinea, United KingdomFormer British soldier Simon Mann, jailed for a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea, says it is "wonderful" to be back in the UK.
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United StatesKenya's attorney general admits the US has imposed a travel ban on him, and threatens legal action for defamation.
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IsraelIsrael's military says it has intercepted a ship carrying hundreds of tonnes of Iranian weapons bound for Hezbollah.
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FranceRenault hold an emergency board meeting in Paris to discuss pulling out of Formula 1.
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IranIran's Arabic language satellite television channel, al-Alam, is taken off air by two Arab-controlled satellite companies.
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Egypt, 
ItalyAn Italian judge convicts 23 Americans and two Italian secret agents over the CIA kidnap of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
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Afghanistan, United KingdomThe five British soldiers killed in an attack by an Afghan police officer have been named by the UK's Ministry of Defence.
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BotswanaA Brazilian man surprises his family by turning up at his own funeral, reports say.
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United KingdomTory leader David Cameron says "never again" will powers be transferred from the UK to Brussels without a referendum.
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United StatesIntel is hit with an anti-competition lawsuit in the US, accused of using "illegal threats" to dominate microchip sales.
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MalaysiaThe Malaysian government refuses to release 10,000 Bibles it seized because they use the word Allah to refer to God.
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France, United KingdomThe UK Conservative Party's new policy on the EU will "castrate" UK influence in Europe, a French minister says.
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