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A new free trade area incorporating China and the six founding Asean members is coming into effect.
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The first effects of France's controversial new law against internet piracy will begin to be felt as the new year starts.
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North Korea issues a New Year message calling for an end to hostile relations with the US, and peace on the Korean peninsula.
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Scientists fighting a cancer that threatens to wipe out Australia's Tasmanian devils say they have made a breakthrough
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The Cambodian government issues an arrest warrant against opposition leader Sam Rainsy over a border dispute.
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Russia imposes a minimum price for the sale of vodka as part of a national campaign to reduce alcoholism.
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A revered Tibetan lama is jailed for eight years by China on ammunitions and embezzlement charges, which he denies.
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Missiles fired from a US drone aircraft have killed at least three people in north-west Pakistan, officials say.
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Barack Obama rallies the CIA after seven staff were killed by an Afghan bomber - one of the worst attacks in its history.
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Moscow raises vodka prices in bid to cut alcoholism
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At least 18 people are killed and dozens injured as a bus skids off a road in heavy fog in Faridpur district, Bangladesh.
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Tottenham manager Harry Redknapp is willing to sell disenchanted striker Roman Pavlyuchenko if the club receive a suitable offer for the Russian.
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Freed British hostage Peter Moore is likely to leave Baghdad later to return to the UK, the Foreign Office says.
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The bomber who killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan was invited to the base as a potential informant, officials say.
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Everton suspend on-loan striker Jo for a breach of discipline after he returned to South America without permission over Christmas.
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Iraq angrily criticises the dismissal of charges against five guards from US security firm Blackwater accused of killing 17 civilians.
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Moscow's leading men are gently lampooned in a New Year's special cartoon broadcast on Russian television.
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Violence against civilians in Iraq dropped dramatically in 2009, a report by an independent monitoring group says.
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The man accused of attempting to blow up an airliner on Christmas Day began his journey in Ghana not Lagos, Nigeria says.
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The man who shot dead five people on New Year's Eve in Finland seems to have targeted his victims, police say.
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Freed British hostage Peter Moore arrives at RAF Brize Norton following his two-and-a-half year kidnap ordeal in Iraq.
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Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi says he is ready to die for Iranian reform, days after his nephew was killed in protests.
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Gordon Brown calls a summit to discuss radicalisation in Yemen in the wake of the alleged bomb plot on a US plane over Detroit.
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A suicide bomber strikes at a volleyball court in north-west Pakistan, killing at least 88 people, a local police chief says.
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Right-wing US talk show host Rush Limbaugh says tests taken after a health scare show nothing wrong with his heart.
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Two French journalists kidnapped in Afghanistan earlier this week are alive and in good health, French media report.
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An air strike by Colombian forces kills at least 18 Farc rebels as they hold a New Year's party in a jungle camp. officials say.
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