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NigeriaNigeria's acting president, Goodluck Jonathan, dissolves the cabinet five weeks after assuming executive powers.
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CubaCuban police detain about 30 of the wives and mothers of political dissidents at a demonstration in the capital, Havana.
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Israel, 
United StatesUS President Barack Obama denies there is a crisis in ties with Israel over its settlement plans, as a war of words continues.
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Guatemala, United StatesA court in Guatemala agrees to extradite former President Alfonso Portillo to the US where he faces money-laundering charges.
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United StatesHow healthcare debate has changed US politics
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India, 
United KingdomAn Indian boy found abandoned in London two years ago can now return home after he is granted travel documents.
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Russia, United StatesThe US and Russia "are making very good progress" on a new nuclear disarmament deal, a US official says before Moscow talks.
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FranceFrench fake show turns contestants to electrocutioners
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United StatesTwo suspected bank robbers, one of them wearing a St Patrick's Day leprechaun costume, die in a shootout with Tennessee police.
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Australia, 
ChinaChina warns against politicising the imminent Rio Tinto trial, after Australia expresses concern over how it will be conducted.
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AustraliaDebate over how to acknowledge the first Australians
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France, United KingdomAn aid worker with joint UK-French nationality is freed in Darfur five months after being kidnapped.
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Burma, United StatesBurma's military government frees a democracy activist and US citizen jailed in February for three years.
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MadagascarThe African Union puts sanctions on Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina in a bid to solve a protracted power struggle.
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SudanSudan signs a ceasefire with a Darfur rebel group, the second deal in recent weeks, leaving just one band of rebels holding out.
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IndiaFive children poisoned to death in a village in India may have been sacrificed, police say.
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IrelandPope Benedict has apologised to victims of child sex abuse by Irish clergy. What is your reaction?
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Haiti, United StatesAll but one of the 33 children who US missionaries tried to take out of Haiti after January's quake are returned to their parents.
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BelgiumA Belgian sex shop owner attempting to cut the VAT bill for his film screenings under cultural exemptions is told by the European Court of Justice that solo viewings are excluded.
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Japan, United KingdomNissan is to build its new electric car, the Leaf, in Sunderland, safeguarding hundreds of jobs, the Japanese firm announces.
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United KingdomTalks between BA and the Unite union aimed at averting strike action will resume this morning. What's your reaction?
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GermanyUp to 25,000 people died in the Allied bombing of Dresden in 1945 - fewer than often estimated, an official German report says.
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ThailandSymbolism and the supernatural used in Thai stand-off
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GermanyWill be Pope be damaged by child abuse scandal?
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SudanSudan signs a ceasefire with a Darfur rebel grouping, the second deal in recent weeks, leaving just one band of rebels holding out.
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PolandA Polish court sentences three men to jail terms for the theft of the Arbeit Macht Frei sign from Auschwitz last December.
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United Kingdom, ChinaChina accuses Britain of staging a political show after its official review of human rights is highly critical of Beijing's record.
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MadagascarA political crisis has engulfed Madagascar's leader Andry Rajoelina, who seized power a year ago. With the country's economy spiralling out of control, he now faces sanctions for failing to set up a unity government.
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ThailandThai 'red shirt' opposition demonstrators say they plan to stay in Bangkok indefinitely, albeit in smaller numbers.
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The GambiaSenior officials and businessmen are charged with trying to overthrow Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, officials say.
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United StatesThe US Treasury has said it will freeze any assets owned by a bank and a TV station they find under their jurisdiction.
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Sweden, United StatesA self-styled "Jihad Jane", held in the US in connection with an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist, denies four charges.
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South AfricaSouth Africa's President Zuma survives a vote of no-confidence by MPs - the first such motion since apartheid ended.
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Pakistan, United KingdomSahil Saeed, the boy kidnapped in Pakistan two weeks ago, has been reunited with his father and is heading home to the UK.
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Gaza StripThe EU's foreign policy chief visits the Gaza Strip as militants there fire a rocket into Israel, killing one person.
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ZimbabweSouth African President Jacob Zuma says he made "great progress" in his first mediation between members of Zimbabwe's unity government.
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United KingdomOlympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt says he is unlikely to target the 400m record until after London 2012.
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Russia, United StatesUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says there is "substantial" progress on a new nuclear disarmament deal with Russia.
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Nigeria, 
LibyaNigeria recalls its ambassador to Libya after leader Muammar Gaddafi suggested Nigeria be divided into two states.
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JapanA US- and EU-backed bid to ban trade in Atlantic bluefin tuna fails, raising fears for the species' future.
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Cuba, United StatesA US man who hijacked a US flight and diverted it to Cuba in 1968 pleads guilty to kidnapping and aircraft piracy.
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United StatesUS citizen David Headley changes his plea in a Chicago court and admits his role in the deadly Mumbai attacks in 2008.
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Pakistan, United KingdomFive-year-old Sahil Saeed returns to the family home in Oldham, as three people are charged with his kidnapping in Pakistan.
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United StatesResearchers in the US genetically engineer glowing sperm to track its performance in the female.
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Israel, United StatesIsrael's PM phones Hillary Clinton to say his country will make a "real effort" to help the US restart Mid-East peace talks.
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Israel, Gaza Strip, ThailandA rocket fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel kills a man, the first fatal rocket attack since Israel's campaign last year.
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United StatesLawyers for Roman Polanski file an appeal over alleged judicial misconduct in his 1970s US trial for sex with a 13-year-old girl.
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