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Iraq, 
United StatesThe website WikiLeaks posts a video it says shows the 2007 killing by US military personnel of civilians in Baghdad.
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North KoreaA South Korean navy warship catches up with an oil tanker, hijacked by Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Sunday.
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ChinaChina executes a Japanese drug smuggler, says the official Xinhua news agency, the first such execution since 1972.
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AustraliaLawyers tell an official inquiry into last years' devastating bush fires in Australia that some areas remain unsafe.
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ItalyThe Italian city of L'Aquila is marking the first anniversary of the earthquake that killed 300 and left 60,000 homeless.
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ArubaAustralia's central bank raises interest rates to 4.25% from 4% as it attempts to cool inflation and slow rises in house prices.
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Aruba, AustraliaA survivor of Australia's 2009 bush fires falls victim to a rare wombat attack, before killing the animal with an axe.
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India, United StatesUS Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner will push India to open its markets in his first visit to India since assuming office.
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Argentina, ChinaArgentina complains to China about a planned boycott of its soya oil exports amid a growing trade dispute.
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BrazilBrazil's striking 'new' capital turns 50 this month
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Sri LankaA military trial accusing Sri Lanka's ex-army chief of breaking army rules is adjourned pending a legal challenge.
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BoliviaBolivia plans to reward good time-keeping with bonuses in a country which seems always to run behind schedule, reports the BBC's Andres Schipani in La Paz. .
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RussiaRussian security officials confirm the identity of the second suicide bomber who attacked the Moscow metro.
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ChinaSearch teams at a flooded mine in China find five bodies, a day after 115 miners were rescued alive after a week underground.
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United KingdomUK PM Gordon Brown is set to end months of speculation by confirming the general election will be held on 6 May.
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Sri LankaA doctor who angered Sri Lanka with his reports during last year's civil war stands as a pro-government candidate in polls.
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Sri LankaA doctor who angered Sri Lanka with his reports during last year's civil war stands as a pro-government candidate in polls.
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Nigeria, United StatesThe Obama administration calls for the head of Nigeria's election commission to be replaced ahead of new elections in 2011.
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IsraelThe killings of four Palestinian youths by Israeli troops in March were "unnecessary and severe" a report says.
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PakistanPakistan international cricketer Nasir Jamshed is arrested after being accused of cheating in a school exam.
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United KingdomPolice arrest two women after they try to take the body of a dead relative on to a plane at a British airport.
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ThailandThai red-shirt protesters defy a ban to rally in more Bangkok districts, after scuffles with riot police earlier in the day.
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IraqA series of large explosions hits the centre of Baghdad, destroying buildings and killing at least 35 people, officials say.
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Equatorial GuineaA court in Equatorial Guinea jails seven Nigerians for an attack on the presidential palace in February 2009.
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Australia, ChinaAustralia's PM Kevin Rudd says it is "outrageous" that a Chinese ship leaking oil near the Great Barrier Reef was off course.
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South AfricaWorld 800m champion Caster Semenya vows to return to athletics in June, despite the controversy over her gender.
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United StatesTwenty-five miners are killed and four are missing after the worst US mining disaster for more than a quarter of a century.
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EgyptRiot police in Egypt break up a pro-democracy rally in Cairo, beat up dozens of protesters and arrest them.
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IsraelA young Israeli Arab is jailed for almost six years for his part in a plot to assassinate the head of the Israeli army.
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NigeriaNigeria's acting President Jonathan swears in members of his new cabinet, in President Yar'Adua's continued absence.
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South AfricaRival groups scuffle at a court where the alleged killers of South African white supremacist Eugene Terreblanche were charged.
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RussiaBarcelona host Arsenal in their mouth-watering Champions League quarter-final second leg, with the winners facing Inter Milan after they dumped out CSKA Moscow.
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Russia, United StatesRussia says it could opt out of a new nuclear disarmament treaty if it feels threatened by US missile defence plans.
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India, ChinaA cyber-espionage network based in China stole documents from India's defence ministry and the Dalai Lama, researchers say.
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IndiaMaoist rebels kill at least 75 soldiers in central India in their worst ever attack on the country's security forces.
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South AfricaThe South African town where race hate lives on
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FranceFrench oil company Total is to be investigated over allegations of bribing Iraqi officials while Saddam Hussein was in power.
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United StatesPresident Barack Obama's administration unveils plans for substantial reductions in the US nuclear weapons stockpile.
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AfghanistanNato investigates whether its forces killed four civilians in an air strike in the southern Afghan province of Helmand.
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United KingdomThe UK's political leaders hit the campaign trail after Prime Minister Gordon Brown calls the general election for 6 May.
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IndiaThe unclaimed bodies of nine gunmen killed in the 2008 attacks on Mumbai were secretly buried in January, Indian officials say.
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KyrgyzstanProtesters seize a regional government office in Kyrgyzstan, as police crack down on opposition leaders in Bishkek.
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United StatesDeadly accident puts spotlight on US mine regulations
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ColombiaVenezuela arrests eight Colombian citizens, accusing them of spying and sabotaging the country's electricity network.
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PeruA rights group calls on Peru to investigate the deaths of six civilians during a protest against mining reforms.
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