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ChileThe first of the 33 Chilean miners trapped underground has reached the surface.
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ChinaA landmark trial is under way in China of a graduate who says he was denied a teaching job because he is HIV positive, state media say.
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BurmaBurma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi says she will not vote in the first poll since her party's landslide win was annulled 20 years ago.
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KyrgyzstanBallots are to be recounted in Kyrgyzstan's first parliamentary poll, after claims of problems with the automated counting system and human error.
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India, 
AustraliaDebutant Cheteshwar Pujara strikes a confident 72 as India ease to a seven-wicket win over Australia in Bangalore to complete a 2-0 series victory.
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NigeriaMedia mogul Raymond Dokpesi sues Nigeria's secret police over his arrest in connection with the Independence Day Abuja bombings.
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United Kingdom, 
New Zealand, AustraliaAustralia's women beat New Zealand on penalties to win a thrilling Commonwealth hockey final, while England win bronze.
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Afghanistan, 
United StatesA mutilated Afghan girl who featured on a controversial Time magazine cover receives a new nose in the US.
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IndiaRani Yadav is named as the Indian athlete to have tested positive for the banned anabolic agent 19-norandrosterone in Delhi.
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IranAn explosion in an ammunitions store at a base belonging to the Iran's Revolutionary Guards kills 18 people and injured 14.
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SomaliaA government minister kidnapped by pirates in Somalia's semi-autonomous region of Puntland is freed without a ransom being paid, officials say.
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Lebanon, IranThousands celebrate the arrival of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as he holds talks with President Suleiman of Lebanon
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Serbia and Montenegro, 
ItalyUefa launches an investigation into the violent scenes involving Serbia fans which caused their Euro 2012 qualifier in Italy to be abandoned.
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South AfricaSix people are arrested in South Africa, accused of stoning to death two suspected mobile phone thieves.
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Lebanon, IranPress in the Arabic-speaking world noted the start of the Iranian President's visit with varying degrees of support and scepticism.
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AfghanistanSix Nato soldiers have been killed in attacks in southern and eastern Afghanistan, Nato says.
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United StatesA US worker found after being swept a mile down a 27-inch sewer pipe is treated for hypothermia and given antibiotics.
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MexicoThe EU plans to tighten regulations for deep-water drilling to prevent any disaster like the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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RussiaWilliam Hague says he wants closer economic and security ties with Russia despite unresolved differences over the Alexander Litvinenko murder case.
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ChinaA group of Communist Party veterans in China write a rare letter calling for an end to the country's restrictions on freedom of speech.
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GermanyAnti-immigration debate out in the open in Germany
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United StatesUS Defence Secretary Robert Gates warns a court-ordered halt of a ban on openly gay military personnel could have "enormous consequences".
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United StatesUS officials say there will be no fine for Paramount Pictures over an accident that left a woman brain damaged during filming of Transformers 3.
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FranceFrench unions build pressure on the government with a second day of strikes on transport, while oil refineries are forced to shut.
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Costa RicaFor 69 days the friends and families of the 33 trapped miners made a temporary home for themselves at the San Jose Mine. As their vigil comes to an end, Rajesh Mirchandani reports from the town of Copiapo.
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Hungary, 
Hong KongThe aluminium plant responsible for a huge toxic spill in Hungary will resume production by Friday, according to government officials.
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United StatesAll 50 US states start a joint investigation into whether mortgage firms were wrong to repossess hundreds of thousands of US homes.
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MalawiEighty mainly elderly people recently jailed in for practising witchcraft in Malawi should be freed as their convictions are illegal, campaigners say.
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Iran, LebanonDuring his first state visit to Lebanon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country supports a strong, unified Lebanon.
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United StatesHow will the people of Nevada, the state with the highest unemployment in the US, vote in November's mid-term elections?
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Pakistan, United StatesEight militants, including four foreign nationals, have been killed in a US drone strike in Pakistan's North Waziristan region, officials say.
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Sudan, United StatesThe American actor and political activist, George Clooney, has called for the freezing of assets held by the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted by the International Criminal Court on war crimes charges.
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United States, MexicoA Mexican commander looking into the disappearance of a US tourist from a border lake is killed.
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