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United KingdomSecret files on British colonial rule - once thought lost - have been released by the government, one year after they came to light.
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AfghanistanMore than 100 schoolgirls in northeastern Afghanistan are taken to hospital after falling ill, with deliberately poisoned water the suspected cause.
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Colombia, 
United StatesA prostitution scandal involving US Secret Service agents in Cartagena, Colombia, involved as many as 20 women, US Senator Susan Collins says.
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PhilippinesIn the Philippines capital, Manila, which is one of the most polluted cities in the world, a paint which it is claimed can purify the air is being used.
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SudanSudan and South Sudan are "locked in a logic of war", the UN Security Council (UNSC) has been told.
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North Korea, United StatesNorth Korea says it is no longer bound by a moratorium on missile and nuclear tests agreed with the US in February in return for food aid.
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United StatesCitigroup shareholders vote against giving top executives a bigger pay deal in a rare show of investor discontent.
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Afghanistan, 
BelgiumNato foreign and defence ministers are set to meet in Brussels to discuss how to fund security forces in Afghanistan once international troops leave.
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ArubaThe world's biggest tobacco firms are challenging the Australian government in court over a law on mandatory plain packaging for cigarettes.
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United Kingdom, 
ChinaChina promises a "thorough" investigation into a top politician linked to the death of a UK businessman, after PM David Cameron holds talks with envoy.
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ChinaProperty prices in China fall for a sixth consecutive month amid government efforts to control prices and curb speculation.
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JapanJapanese electronics maker Toshiba Corporation agrees to buy IBM's point-of-sale business in a $850m (£534m) deal.
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United KingdomTesco unveils details of a plan to invest £1bn to try to improve its UK business, as it announces a 5.3% rise in profits in the past financial year.
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Kenya, United KingdomObama's father features in files on UK's Kenya fears
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United StatesA security guard is arrested following the theft of five of US musician Tom Petty's guitars from a rehearsal space.
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AustraliaReports on Australia's kangaroo harvest should be among those no longer required by law, California Governor Jerry Brown says.
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RussiaThree women detained for singing a political punk song in Moscow's main cathedral will appear in court later this week.
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United KingdomThe official London Olympic motto is revealed as events are held to mark 100 days to the 2012 Games opening ceremony.
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ChinaAnother 100,000 people may be moved from the area around China's huge Three Gorges Dam because of landslides and bank collapses, state media say.
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SyriaThe wives of two UN ambassadors make a video urging Bashar al-Assad's wife Asma to pressure him to end the suppression of Syria's uprising.
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United KingdomA study released exclusively to the BBC claims Team GB is on track for its biggest gold-medal haul in a century at London 2012.
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Norway, 
BurmaBurma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is to travel abroad for the first time in 24 years, suggesting she has growing confidence in reforms.
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United KingdomUK unemployment has fallen by 35,000 to 2.65 million, the first fall since last spring, according to the Office for National Statistics.
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ItalyA museum in Italy has started burning its artworks in protest at budget cuts which it says have left cultural institutions out of pocket.
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AfghanistanAn Afghan Taliban commander is captured after giving himself up and demanding the $100 reward for his own arrest, officials say.
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Saudi ArabiaA prominent human rights campaigner has been sentenced to four years in prison by a state security tribunal in Saudi Arabia, campaigners says.
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FranceFrancois Hollande, the Socialist tipped to win France's presidential election, says he will not endorse the EU fiscal compact unless it promotes growth.
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SudanSudan and South Sudan accuse each other of opening up a new front along the disputed border, raising fears of all-out war.
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BrazilThere are concerns in Brazil that the $470m renovation of Rio's Maracana stadium may not be ready in time for the 2013 Confederations Cup.
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ItalyThe Italian government slashes its forecast for the economy in 2012 and admits it will not be able to balance the budget in 2013.
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AfghanistanThe Taliban in Afghanistan make an online appeal for donations in what analysts believe to be a propaganda move.
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NorwayThe man who admits killing 77 people in Norway last summer has been telling a court in Oslo about the far-right network to which he says he belongs.
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LibyaThe International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor arrives in Libya to discuss the case of Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, indicted for crimes against humanity.
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BangladeshBangladesh's main opposition party, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), announces the formation of a new, 18-party coalition.
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SpainKing Juan Carlos apologises to the Spanish people for going on a hunting trip in Africa while his country was in economic crisis.
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SwitzerlandSwiss pharmaceuticals giant Roche abandons its hostile $6bn takeover bid for gene sequencing firm Illumina.
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BahrainJenson Button says he trusts the FIA's decision to go ahead with the Bahrain Grand Prix, despite concern over civil unrest.
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Turkey, Syria, 
GermanyA German-owned ship is to be searched by Turkish port authorities after claims that it is carrying arms destined for Syria.
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LibyaA Libyan military commander is taking legal action against Jack Straw, to find out if the former foreign secretary signed papers allowing his rendition.
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IndiaIndia postpones the test launch of a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads deep into China.
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Hong Kong, United Kingdom, ChinaHSBC is to issue benchmark bonds in London in the Chinese currency, the first time it has been done outside mainland China or Hong Kong.
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BahrainBahrain struggles to get Grand Prix back on track amid protests
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Afghanistan, United StatesThe US condemns the conduct of several American soldiers shown apparently abusing the corpses of suspected Afghan insurgents in 2010.
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SudanSudan's president says his goal is to liberate South Sudan's people from their government
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NorwayThe man who killed 77 people in Norway last July tells an Oslo court there can be only two "just" outcomes to his trial - acquittal or the death penalty.
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United KingdomThe employment minister says firms should hire young British people "from a poor background" rather than more experienced foreign workers.
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ItalyVolkswagen's Audi arm has bought Italian motorcycle firm Ducati for an undisclosed sum, it has said.
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Senegal, France, 
MaliMali's former President Amadou Toumani Toure, whose whereabouts had been unknown since being ousted in a coup last month, is in the Senegalese embassy in Bamako, President Macky Sall of Senegal says.
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ArgentinaSpain threatens retaliation against Argentina over the nationalisation of oil firm YPF, raising the prospects of a trade war.
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ThailandA session in Thailand's parliament is halted after an image of a naked woman appears on monitors during a debate.
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BahrainBahraini security forces fire stun grenades at protesters gathered outside a cultural exhibition in Manama for Sunday's Formula 1 Grand Prix.
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United StatesA retired couple from southern Illinois are the third and final winners to claim a share of a record $656m (£409m) Mega Millions lottery jackpot.
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PakistanPakistan is preparing to deport three widows of former al-Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden and their children 'as early as possible', officials say.
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Afghanistan, BelgiumUS seeks to reassure Kabul that it will not abandon Afghanistan after the withdrawal of troops in 2014.
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Cuba, United StatesCuba hails a Latin American "rebellion" against US dominance at the Summit of the Americas last weekend.
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United KingdomThe radical cleric's deportation is in doubt after an appeal to the European Court of Human Rights, which the home secretary calls a "delaying tactic".
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ChinaOver the past year, 32 Tibetans have set fire to themselves as a protest against what they say is China's worst crackdown on the region since the Cultural Revolution.
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Syria, Germany, United KingdomThe wives of the British and German ambassadors to the UN have released a four-minute video urging President Assad's wife Asma to help end the violence in Syria.
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AfghanistanUS President Barack Obama wants the American soldiers behind the "reprehensible" abuse of Afghan corpses to be held accountable, the White House says.
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EgyptThe Muslim Brotherhood candidate barred from standing in Egypt's presidential election has warned the country's progress towards democracy is in danger.
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United StatesJohn Wiley & Sons, publisher of the "For Dummies" guide books, demands the trial of four suspected file-sharers.
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SyriaShooting breaks out during a visit to a Damascus suburb by UN observers, activists say, as the UN prepares plans to expand the mission.
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ChinaThieves steal 18 "valuable and culturally significant" items of Chinese art, thought to be worth millions of pounds, from a Cambridge University museum.
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South AfricaSouth Africans have expressed outrage over the spread of a video that allegedly shows a teenaged girl being raped by a group of men.
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SwitzerlandSwitzerland says it will re-impose quotas on workers from central and eastern EU countries, cutting the number of residency permits issued by two-thirds.
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Pakistan, IndiaPakistan's army chief says his and India's troops should leave a contested glacier in Kashmir, where a recent avalanche killed scores of troops.
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United StatesOne of America's best-known veteran television personalities, Dick Clark, has died aged 82, after suffering a heart attack, his agent says.
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FranceMechanical animals park hopes to regenerate French city
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HondurasThousands of rural workers in Honduras join land invasions as a part of a dispute with large landowners and the government.
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United StatesIn 2000 Daniel Suelo gave away all his cash and began living in caves in Utah. Mark Sundeen, author of "The Man Who Quit Money", explains what his story tells us about modern America.
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United States, 
MexicoMexican police seize more than 250,000 rifle bullets on a trailer being driven across the border from the US.
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Italy, France, United StatesA 474-year-old painting stolen by Nazis during World War II has been returned by US officials to the heirs of its Paris-based Italian Jewish owner.
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