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MexicoEight Mexican police officers are found shot dead after being abducted in the troubled southern state of Guerrero.
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PakistanThe BBC's Aleem Maqbool has been travelling the length of the Indus River in Pakistan to assess the devastation caused by the flooding.
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SpainOutlawed Basque separatist group Eta appeals for international mediation to resolve its conflict with Madrid.
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MexicoCrews working to seal BP's damaged well in the Gulf of Mexico are set to carry out one more pressure test before declaring it "dead", engineers say.
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MalaysiaA burglar in Malaysia broke into a house to steal watches and jewellery was caught after falling asleep on a sofa with the loot, reports say.
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ChileThe 33 trapped miners in Chile joined compatriots in singing the national anthem to mark the 200th anniversary of the country's independence.
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IndiaTwo foreign tourists are injured after gunmen open fire on a bus in the Indian capital, Delhi, police say.
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Afghanistan, 
United KingdomTwo British soldiers were killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Saturday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirms.
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SwitzerlandSimon Cowell is to be presented with a special award at the Rose d'Or television festival in Switzerland, organisers announce.
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IraqAt least 23 people have been killed and 100 injured in two large, near-simultaneous explosions in Baghdad on Sunday morning, officials say.
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AfghanistanThe bodies of three Afghan election workers kidnapped on Saturday during the country's parliamentary poll are found, officials say.
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United KingdomKilmarnock host Celtic in the weekend's final Scottish Premier League fixture.
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PakistanThe Pakistani city overwhelmed by flood refugees
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United States, 
ChinaAn adviser to China's central bank rebuffs criticism from the US treasury secretary over Beijing's exchange rate policy.
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Japan, ChinaChina suspends top-level exchanges with Japan in protest at a ship captain's detention near disputed islands, marking a fresh deterioration of ties.
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United StatesUS actor Randy Quaid is charged by police with illegally occupying his former home in California.
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PakistanAndrew Strauss says the one-day series against Pakistan should continue, while Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt says England should be investigated after their defeat at The Oval.
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IndiaTwo Taiwanese tourists are injured after gunmen open fire in Delhi, weeks before the Indian capital hosts the Commonwealth Games.
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SomaliaIslamist insurgents seize control of two radio stations in the Somali capital Mogadishu.
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Turkey, 
ArmeniaArmenian worshippers hold a service in a church in eastern Turkey for the first time in nearly 100 years.
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United States, MexicoOil giant BP finally seals the ruptured well that has spewed millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, US officials say.
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United KingdomMembers of the Royal Family join a commemoration event for the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain
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Turkey, ArmeniaArmenian church brought back to life in Turkey
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Ireland, United KingdomIrish threesome The Script enter the UK album chart at number one, repeating the performance of their 2008 debut collection.
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Iran, United StatesIran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls on the US to release Iranian citizens after Tehran freed on bail a US hiker it accuses of spying.
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United KingdomThousands witness the Pope's beatification of Cardinal Newman on the final day of his four-day state visit to Britain.
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GermanyAt least two people are killed and one seriously injured in a shooting at a hospital in the south-western German town of Loerrach.
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IranPresident Ahmadinejad of Iran is a savvy media operator
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Thailand"Red-shirt" protesters take to the streets of the Thai capital Bangkok, in defiance of a state of emergency.
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SwedenSweden's centre-right alliance wins re-election but loses its overall majority as the anti-immigrant far-right enters parliament for the first time.
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GermanyFour people are killed and one seriously injured in a shooting at a German hospital and a blast in a nearby building, reports say.
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IndiaAn international research team makes the case that stone tools from the Arabian Peninsula and India point to humans coming "out of Africa" earlier than has been thought.
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Netherlands, Somalia, United KingdomA British man of Somali origin is arrested at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport on suspicion of being a terrorist, officials say.
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TurkeyArmenians have taken part in a mass at an ancient church on an island in Turkey for the first time in almost a century.
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ChileRescuers trying to reach 33 miners trapped underground in Chile have begun using a third drill to dig an escape tunnel.
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