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United StatesThe US state of Arizona faces legal challenges to a controversial new immigration law as President Obama joins the backlash.
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Greece, 
GermanyGavin Hewitt looks at the pressure to help Greece
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United StatesA hunter in the American state of Pennsylvania is fined nearly $7,000 for luring a bear to its death with doughnuts.
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ThailandPatients are evacuated from a hospital in Bangkok, after anti-government protesters force their way in looking for soldiers.
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IndiaIndia's energy watchdog gives a university two weeks to explain how it sold as scrap radioactive waste, which has killed a man.
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IraqA car bomb in the Iraqi capital kills eight people, as officials say a vote recount in the city could take three weeks.
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ZambiaWould condoms in Zambian prisons reduce HIV spread?
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ChinaFive young children are injured after a man attacks them with a hammer in the third such incident in China in as many days.
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Canada, 
JapanJapan's coastguard seeks to arrest environmental activist Paul Watson for disrupting whale hunts, reports say.
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ChadChad's government says the army has killed 105 insurgents and beaten back a new attack but the rebels deny this.
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United StatesThe US Coast Guard investigates reports that oil has begun washing ashore on the Gulf Coast following a massive spill.
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PakistanThree sisters suffer serious burns after unidentified men on a motorbike throw acid at them in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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IndiaA civilian dies in Indian-administered Kashmir after protesters stone a bus in the capital, Srinagar, police say.
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Ireland, 
Sri Lanka, 
Guyana, 
New ZealandThe third ICC World Twenty20 begins in Guyana on Friday with Sri Lanka taking on New Zealand, before West Indies face Ireland.
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BelgiumBelgium's parliament passes a law which would ban women from wearing Islamic veils like the burka or niqab in public.
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BelgiumBelgium's parliament votes for a law banning women from wearing the burka in public. Your views?
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Syria, 
Lebanon, United StatesUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issues a strong warning to Syria over alleged transfers of weapons to Lebanon.
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United KingdomThe Germans who fought for Britain against Hitler
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GreeceAthens police fire tear gas at hundreds of protesters angered over cuts the country faces in return for a debt bail-out plan.
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ChinaChina looks for answers to wave of school attacks
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United StatesA "vaccine" which uses the body's immune system to fight prostate cancer is approved for use by US drug regulators.
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United KingdomGordon Brown says it is time for voters to decide as he, David Cameron and Nick Clegg return to campaigning.
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PakistanA Pakistani campaigner reportedly captured by the Taliban is found dead in the North Waziristan region, officials say.
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IrelandIreland's 'ugly' reminder of boom and bust
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HaitiInside the tent camps for Haiti's quake survivors
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BurmaBurma's PM and 26 others apply to form a new political party in a move critics say will increase military hold over polls.
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ChinaChina opens the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, in an event it hopes will highlight its rising global influence.
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MalawiPlans championed by Malawi's gender minister to ban polygamy discriminate against Muslims, an Islamic leader tells the BBC.
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LebanonThe lynching of a murder suspect by angry Lebanese villagers is condemned as barbaric by officials.
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IndiaAuthorities in India's Karnataka investigate reports that silk, adulterated with toxins, partially blinds at least 40 weavers.
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SudanAt least eight people are killed as mutinous troops attack an army base in south Sudan over recent elections.
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ChinaChinese rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng has disappeared again, weeks after being released from detention, say his family.
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FranceFrench senator and former interior minister Charles Pasqua gets a one-year suspended jail term for corruption.
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UgandaUganda's Vice-President Bukenya and ministers should be charged over fraud at the Commonwealth Summit, a leaked report says.
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Ireland, New ZealandWest Indies beat Ireland by 70 runs after New Zealand edge out Sri Lanka in a thrilling World Twenty20 opener.
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RussiaA businessman who set up a Josef Stalin museum is beaten to death by attackers in southern Russia.
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GreeceGreek Prime Minister George Papandreou warns the country to be ready for a new round of austerity measures.
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Israel, United StatesIsraeli-Palestinian proximity talks are expected to start next week, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says.
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Sri Lanka, New ZealandNathan McCullum is New Zealand's unlikely hero with the bat as Sri Lanka are beaten from the penultimate delivery of the ICC World Twenty20.
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United StatesThe US puts new offshore oil drilling on hold while it investigates the cause of the spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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United StatesThe US Geological Survey withdraws a report that a magnitude 5.0 earthquake has hit northern California.
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AlbaniaTens of thousands of people march on Albania's capital demanding a reopening of boxes from disputed polls.
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United StatesUS Air Force planes prepare to spray oil-dispersing chemicals off Louisiana as the operation to tackle a huge slick steps up.
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United StatesA former US student is found guilty of hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account and obstructing justice.
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