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Chile, 
United StatesChilean President Sebastian Pinera says he will ask the US for classified documents relating to human rights violations under Gen Augusto Pinochet.
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United KingdomA doubling of HIV spread in the UK in the past decade prompts health experts to tell GPs to offer testing to all adult male patients in some areas.
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RussiaBBC's Russian Service looks back on 65 years of radio
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CubaHow many Cubans does it take to change a hotel room?
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IndiaWhy whistle-blowing in India can cost you your life
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United StatesA copyright deal between Google and publishers over the web firm's publication of books online is torpedoed by a US court.
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JapanThe Japanese Prime Minister has halted more shipments of vegetables grown near the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
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MalaysiaThe judge hearing sodomy charges against the Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim overturns an earlier ruling and will now allow DNA evidence.
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United KingdomAMs are set to vote on a cull of badgers in west Wales as Queen guitarist and campaigner Brian May opposes the motion.
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El Salvador, Chile, United StatesUS President Barack Obama - on a visit to El Salvador - promises $200m (£122m) to fight drug trafficking and gang violence in Central America.
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United KingdomWales star Gareth Bale believes his side can cause an upset against England in the Euro 2012 qualifier at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday.
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JapanJapan says it will cost as much as 25 trillion yen ($309bn) to rebuild the country after the deadly earthquake and tsunami.
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PakistanCaptain Shahid Afridi leads from the front as Pakistan reach the World Cup semi-finals with an emphatic 10-wicket win over West Indies in the first quarter-final in Mirpur.
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Afghanistan, United StatesThe United States welcomes Afghan President Hamid Karzai's announcement that his forces will take charge of security in seven areas from July.
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LibyaLibyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi appears at a recently bombed site in Tripoli and says "we will be victorious in the end".
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FranceSinger Marianne Faithfull has been awarded one of the highest cultural honours in France.
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EgyptEgypt's stock market is suspended again after plunging 10%, minutes after reopening from its two-month closure.
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Switzerland, JapanJapan crisis prompts Swiss rethink on nuclear power
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EgyptPerils and possibilities for women in the 'new Egypt'
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SwitzerlandSwitzerland gets almost half its energy from nuclear power, but, critics say the Swiss reactors are ageing and may not be safe.
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IndiaThe Indian government says it is investigating reports that police fighting Maoist rebels rampaged through three villages last week.
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AustraliaAustralia captain Ricky Ponting says he has no plans to retire from cricket after the World Cup.
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LibyaLibyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has widespread support in the capital Tripoli, according to a journalist in the city who spoke to the BBC.
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UkraineUkraine's former President Leonid Kuchma denies any involvement in the notorious murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze in 2000.
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CanadaBrandy Yanchyk travels to Yellowknife in Canada for a view of the famous Northern Lights.
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IsraelIsraeli warplanes have launched air strikes east of Gaza City, after Palestinian militants fired two rockets into southern Israel.
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FinlandThe Lutheran Church in Finland is losing around a thousand members a week, as the society becomes more secular and questions the moral teachings of the Church.
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ChinaChina's state auditor says $28m in funds intended for a high-speed rail link between Beijing and Shanghai have been embezzled.
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Iraq, LibyaAn Iraqi woman living in Tripoli tells BBC Radio 5 live presenter Peter Allen 'they think you're invaders, not allies', following air strikes on Libya.
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United KingdomSri Lanka coach Trevor Bayliss believes Muttiah Muralitharan will be fit to face England in Saturday's World Cup quarter-final.
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BahrainBill Law examines the real story behind the continuing unrest in Bahrain.
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United StatesEx-Intel executive says he passed company information to the man accused in the biggest US insider-trading trial in decades.
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JapanRadiation levels in Tokyo's tap water make it unfit for babies to drink, Japanese officials warn as efforts to stabilise a quake-stricken nuclear plant continue.
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LibyaWith allied attacks on Libya for the fourth night in a row, Gaddafi addresses a crowd and maintains his defiance.
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SpainSpain's social website for the jobless
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YemenYemen's parliament approves the imposition of a state of emergency amid escalating street protests against President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
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NepalHundreds of people from Nepal's minority Christian community protest in Kathmandu to demand designated burial grounds.
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SyriaAt least 10 people have been killed after witnesses say police opened fire on people protesting at the deaths of anti - government demonstrators
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Turkey, LibyaTurkish President Abdullah Gul warns the coalition forces taking action in Libya against pursuing any hidden agenda.
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FranceA singer jailed in France for trying to abort his ex-partner's child is given parole after serving less than half his five-year sentence.
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PakistanPakistan dismiss the West Indies for 112 and win their World Cup quarter-final in Mirpur by 10 wickets to set up a match with India or Australia in the last four.
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United StatesA group of US senators asks smart phone firms to cease distributing apps said to enable drink-drivers to avoid police checkpoints.
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AfghanistanAfghan President Hamid Karzai urges the Taliban to stop attacking schools, saying education is the way to bring peace to the country.
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LibyaInternational forces launch air strikes near Libya's rebel-held city of Misrata, witnesses say, but Col Gaddafi's forces continue their attacks.
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SenegalSenegal releases four people suspected of planning a coup, saying there is not enough evidence to prosecute them.
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SudanThe ruling party in north Sudan warns that its cyber jihadists will crush internet dissent.
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Philippines, 
Hong KongA Hong Kong inquest criticises Philippine officials for their slow response to a Manila bus hijacking that left eight tourists from the city dead.
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United KingdomThe UK economy will grow more slowly this year than previously forecast, the Chancellor George Osborne announces.
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France, 
MexicoA Mayan sculpture that fetched 2.9m euros ($4.2m, £2.5m) at a Paris auction is a fake, Mexican officials claim.
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United StatesThe renewed slump in the US housing market continues with the sale of new homes hitting its lowest level on record.
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Italy, 
TunisiaItaly's interior minister is to visit Tunisia for talks aimed at stopping the flow of migrants to the Italian Mediterranean island of Lampedusa.
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CubaThe Cuban government frees Felix Navarro and Jose Ferrer, the last two activists who had refused to go into exile as a condition of their release.
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UgandaA special unit of the Uganda police carries out torture, extortion and extrajudicial killings, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
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Afghanistan, United StatesA US soldier accused of being a part of a rogue squad that killed Afghan civilians for sport faces a court-martial in Washington state.
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IsraelIsraeli officials say that one person has died and more than 20 others are injured after a bomb blast in central Jerusalem
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IsraelIsrael's parliament passes a law allowing the state to deny funding to institutions that question the country's existence as a Jewish state.
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Denmark, FinlandA 10-day film by a group of Danish artists about a building is being billed as the longest film ever as it is screened in Helsinki.
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BelgiumThe EU reports a "serious" cyber attack on the Commission and External Action Service before a summit in Brussels.
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NetherlandsBritain win bronze medals in the men's team sprint and team pursuit on day one of the World Track Championships in the Netherlands, as Belarus win two of the five gold medals available.
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AfghanistanAll mobile telephone networks have been switched off in the southern Afghan province of Helmand after a threat from the Taliban.
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BahrainA top EU diplomat says police in Bahrain, accused of human rights abuses, have had a tough task and during unrest "accidents happen".
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LebanonSeven Estonian tourists have been kidnapped while cycling in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.
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Denmark, 
SomaliaA Danish newspaper says one of its reporters has met the Danish family being held hostage by Somali pirates and they seem to be well.
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EgyptEgypt's former interior minister and four other officers are to face trial on charges of killing protesters, the country's public prosecutor said.
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EgyptAn Egyptian man is jailed for five years after throwing a makeshift fire-bomb at a synagogue in Cairo in 2010
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SyriaAt least six people have died after security forces fired on protesters outside a mosque in the Syrian city of Deraa, human rights activists say.
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IsraelOne person is killed and more than 30 others are wounded, some seriously, as a bomb explodes at a crowded bus stop in Jerusalem.
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JapanResidents of Tokyo have been warned not to give tap water to babies because of radiation from the damaged nuclear plant 220 kilometres to the north
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LibyaArab support for the no-fly zone over Libya is "very strong", Prime Minister David Cameron tells MPs.
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LibyaAs the USS Bataan prepares for deployment to the Mediterranean Sea in response to the violence in Libya, Mark Mardell explains what role the ship will perform.
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United KingdomChancellor George Osborne announces a greater than expected cut in fuel duty as he sets out a "Budget for growth".
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Pacific Ocean, ChileLandlocked Bolivia says it will take Chile to international tribunals to recover access to the Pacific Ocean, which it lost in a 19th Century war.
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PortugalPortugal's opposition parties defeat new austerity measures in a parliamentary vote, bringing a debt bail-out closer.
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United KingdomSir Chris Hoy wins his 21st World Championship medal as Britain win bronze in the team sprint and team pursuit in Apeldoorn.
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PortugalPortuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates resigns after parliament rejects an austerity budget.
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IsraelIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he will act "vigorously and responsibly" to restore security after a bomb explodes in central Jerusalem.
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Libya, United KingdomThe commander of British aircraft operating over Libya says that Col Gaddafi's air force "no longer exists as a fighting force".
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CanadaCanadian opposition parties say they will vote against the Conservative government's budget, in a move that could trigger an election.
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SpainThe Spanish league season may end three weeks later than planned after the next round of matches is postponed because of a dispute over television revenue.
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Yemen, United KingdomBritain is temporarily withdrawing part of its embassy team from Yemen due to ongoing violence in the country, the Foreign Office says.
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Libya, United KingdomAfter suffering five days of coalition attacks, the Libyan air force no longer exists as a fighting unit, according to the officer leading the British air operation.
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PortugalPortuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates resigns after parliament rejects an austerity budget.
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MexicoMexico publishes a manual to help government workers reduce the use of sexist language, in a nation renowned for its machismo.
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