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Peruvian indigenous leader Alberto Pizango is freed on bail pending trial a day after he was detained upon his returns home from almost a year in exile.
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President Obama defends his handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as BP takes stock of its work to plug the well.
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Another apparent suicide occurs at Taiwan iPhone-maker Foxconn, hours after journalists are shown round the Shenzhen factory.
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Second practice in under way after McLaren's Lewis Hamilton sets the fastest time in first practice for this weekend's Turkish Grand Prix.
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Togo's veteran opposition leader tells the BBC he will enter into a power-sharing deal with the government after disputed polls.
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The US president's national security strategy says armed conflict should be a last resort when diplomacy is exhausted.
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Libyan artefacts taken to Britain in the 1950s have been returned to home and go on display in Tripoli Museum.
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Australia says it will mount a legal bid at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, against Japan's whaling programme.
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Should people in Zambia be forced to have HIV tests?
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The latest attempt to stop the oil leak has failed. What is your reaction to the response to the environmental disaster?
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The McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button set the pace in the first practice of the Turkish Grand Prix.
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China's premier visits South Korea as Seoul urges stronger action by Beijing against North Korea over the sinking of a warship.
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Robin Soderling and Caroline Wozniacki are on court at the French Open as Andy Murray beats Marcos Baghdatis to reach last 16.
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The high-energy urban arts scene in Brazil's biggest city
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North Korea is contravening a UN ban by trading in nuclear material and technology with Iran, Syria and Burma, a UN panel has found.
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England struggle to take wickets after being dismissed for 505 on day two of the first Test against Bangladesh at Lord's.
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Has US president been too slow to react to oil spill?
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Military coup 50 years ago still haunts Turkey
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Hundreds of bodies buried in a mudslide in Uganda three months ago have yet to be recovered, the rescue team says.
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The US issues an alert about a terrorism risk at the World Cup as President Barack Obama sees off the US team to South Africa.
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France beat Turkey and Italy for the right to stage the European Championship in 2016.
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Gunmen riding a motorcycle fire a vehicle carrying four police officers in south-west Pakistan, killing all of them, police say.
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Anger smoulders as Kingston's Tivoli counts its dead
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Japan and the US say they have reached an agreement to relocate a controversial US military base in Okinawa.
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The US Congress moves towards overturning the "don't ask, don't tell" policy on openly gay people serving in the military.
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A South African government official proposes a complete ban on pornography across the internet, mobiles and television.
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The Israeli army partially opens a motorway that runs through the West Bank to Palestinian drivers, to comply with a court ruling.
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The Taiwanese owners of a China electronics factory hit by a string of worker suicides say they will increase wages to boost morale.
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The UN Security Council authorises the withdrawal of up to 2,000 peacekeepers from the African state by 30 June.
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At least 73 people are now known to have died in clashes this week as Jamaican security forces hunt an alleged drug lord.
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Stories from China's suicide-hit electronics factory
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British officials backed the post war purge of Saddam-era officials, former US administrator Paul Bremer tells the Iraq inquiry.
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Can one person control every bit of US intelligence?
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A Swiss man who had been fined for naked rambling in Switzerland's Appenzell canton wins his appeal.
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Bangladesh's batsmen defy England to reach 172-2, 333 runs behind, after day two of the first Test at Lord's.
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More than 100 people die and scores are injured as two trains crash in eastern India in an act of suspected Maoist sabotage.
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A US lawyer who planned to defend an opposition leader in Rwanda is arrested on allegations of genocide denial.
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Nepal's three main parties reach a deal to avoid a political crisis, amid reports the prime minister is to resign.
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The Bolivian government says it will negotiate with the indigenous group which lynched four policemen
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More than 80 people die in gun and grenade attacks at two mosques of the Ahmadi Islamic sect in Pakistan's city of Lahore.
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