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Honduras, 
Brazil, 
BotswanaHonduran authorities impose strict controls on the Brazilian embassy, where deposed leader Manuel Zelaya is holed up.
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IndiaA woman convicted of assassinating former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi ends a fast to demand her release from jail.
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PhilippinesPhilippine rebels deny an army claim that a top leader has been captured, as peace talks with Muslim separatists falter.
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IndiaThe World Bank is to provide India with $4.3bn in loans, including $2bn to support its state-owned banks.
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United States, 
ChinaChinese carmaker Geely Automotive receives a $334m (£204m) investment from major US bank Goldman Sachs.
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United KingdomGordon Brown is to tell the UN he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three.
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United StatesOne of the busiest US-Mexico border crossing is shut after a gun battle between US agents and suspected people smugglers.
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IndiaIndia successfully launches seven satellites in a single mission, reaffirming its growing capabilities in space.
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United KingdomGordon Brown is willing to cut the UKÂ’s fleet of nuclear submarines from four to three. Is Trident still needed?
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Israel, United StatesUS President Barack Obama tells Israeli and Palestinian leaders it is time to move with urgency towards restarting peace talks.
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United StatesThe US dollar falls to a one-year low of $1.4840 to the euro ahead of the G20 meeting of world leaders.
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IndiaFord announces that it is to make a new car in India, as part of its $500m (£304m) investment plan in the country.
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BhutanBhutan's prime minister says an earthquake which killed at least 11 people is "one of the biggest disasters in recent times".
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Germany, United KingdomGerman Finance Minister Peer Streinbrueck has accused the UK of blocking tougher financial rules ahead of the G20 summit.
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Honduras, BrazilHonduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti says he is willing to talk to ousted president Zelaya, barricaded in Brazil's embassy.
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United KingdomGordon Brown is to tell the UN he is willing to cut the UK's fleet of Trident missile-carrying submarines from four to three.
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ArubaA large stretch of Australia's east coast, including the largest city Sydney, has been shrouded in red dust blown in from the outback.
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SwedenSwedish police hunt for robbers who used a stolen helicopter to raid a cash depot in the capital, Stockholm.
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South AfricaSouth African activists welcome the life sentence given to a man for the killing and gang rape of a lesbian football star.
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GermanyGerman police suspect letters from the far-right NPD party to politicians of immigrant origin incited racial hatred.
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Libya, United StatesUS officials order workers to stop construction of Col Muammar Gaddafi's trademark tent near New York, a local attorney says.
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PakistanPakistan take on West Indies in Johannesburg in the second game of the Champions Trophy.
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TanzaniaThree Tanzanians are sentenced to death for killing an albino boy - targeted because witchdoctors use albino body parts in potions.
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Saudi ArabiaA mixed-sex campus opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to spearhead reform and compete in international scientific research.
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TaiwanChina says it will lend some of its cultural artefacts to a Taiwan museum next month, for the first time since the civil war.
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North Korea, United StatesSouth Korea is boosting its defence budget by selling a vast stockpile of old Korean-war rifles to collectors in the US.
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ItalyItalian police say they have seized a crocodile used by a suspected mafia boss to extort protection money.
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Saudi ArabiaA mixed-sex campus opens near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to spearhead reform and compete in international scientific research.
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EgyptThe Egyptian culture minister who lost the race to become head of Unesco says the United Nations is becoming "politicised".
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BurundiStruggle to provide free maternal care in Burundi
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IndiaConservation efforts to save India's last surviving examples of a water-lily must be stepped up, a leading botanist says.
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United StatesUS President Barack Obama calls for immediate Middle East peace talks without preconditions, at his maiden UN address.
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Argentina, 
SpainAn airline pilot is arrested in Spain over his alleged role in the Argentine "Dirty War" tactic of dropping dissidents into the sea.
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IndiaAt least 22 workers are killed and many more trapped as a chimney collapses at a power plant in central India, officials say.
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United StatesThe US Federal Reserve sees economic activity "picking up" but says interest rates will stay close to zero for an "extended time".
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PolandPolish court awards compensation to a woman likened to a child killer by a Catholic magazine after seeking an abortion.
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Trinidad and Tobago, EgyptEgypt's Under 20 side play the opening fixture of the Fifa Under 20 World Cup against Trinidad and Tobago in Alexandria.
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United StatesUS President Obama urges greater global co-operation in his first UN speech, as Libya's leader attacks the major powers.
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CubaEx-Cuban President Fidel Castro praises President Obama's speech at the UN for its words on climate change.
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