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The US Secret Service tightens rules on drinking and behaviour on foreign trips, as it battles with the fallout from a sex scandal in Colombia.
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Austria could lend Mexico a headdress reputedly worn by the Aztec emperor Moctezuma after the Mexican Senate changes its rules on relics.
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Street Child World Cup: Team Brazil visits London
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China dissident Chen Guangcheng has fled to the US embassy in Beijing after a dramatic escape from house arrest, says fellow activist Hu Jia.
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The European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton meets pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma before opening an office in Rangoon.
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Images have emerged showing alleged injuries inflicted on former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in prison last week.
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A growing number of churches are opening their doors to transsexuals, gay men and lesbians in Brazil.
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The trial of former Ukrainian PM Yulia Tymoshenko, accused of tax evasion charges, is delayed after she refuses to attend for health reasons.
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Malaysian riot police fired tear gas and water cannon on a crowd of at least 25,000 protesters seeking electoral reform in the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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Malaysian riot police have fired tear gas and used water cannon on a crowd of protesters who had converged on the centre of the capital, Kuala Lumpur.
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China's National Theatre is performing for the first time overseas at the Globe Theatre in London.
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The European Union foreign policy chief has met Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng is under "US protection" in Beijing after his dramatic escape from house arrest, a US-based rights group says.
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Syria reportedly repels a sea raid by rebel fighters as Lebanon intercepts a ship carrying weapons it says were bound for opposition fighters.
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Property prices in Abu Dhabi have slumped and the biggest real estate company has had to be bailed out by the government.
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Jorge Lorenzo clinches pole position after topping the qualifying session for Sunday's Spanish MotoGP.
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Israel's ex-security chief says his country's leaders are "misleading the public" by saying a strike on Iran would stop it getting nuclear weapons.
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A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 members of the country's security forces, officials say.
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Nobel laureate Mohamed ElBaradei launches his "Constitutional Party" which he hopes will bring him to power in Egypt in four years time.
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The UK Border Force says it is "fully prepared to manage busy periods" like the Olympics despite criticism over delays at Heathrow Airport.
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The Saudi embassy and consulates in Egypt are closed following protests over an Egyptian lawyer who has been detained in Saudi Arabia.
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A court in India sentences Bangaru Laxman, former chief of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party, to 4 years in jail for taking bribes.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy rejects claims by Dominique Strauss-Kahn that his party was behind the ex-IMF chief's downfall.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki goes on national TV to dispel persistent rumours that he is dead or ailing.
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A British soldier fatally shot in southern Afghanistan on Friday has been named as Guardsman Michael Roland, from 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards.
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Ruan Pienaar says Ulster will have to improve for the Heineken Cup final after overcoming Edinburgh in a tight semi-final in Dublin.
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Police say that a bomb found close to the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic contained 600 pounds of explosives and was fully primed.
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Two actors in a film about escaping Cuba emerge a week after disappearing on the way to a New York film festival, saying they will seek asylum in the US.
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Officials in South Sudan say China has agreed to loan it $8bn (£4.9bn) for major development projects, following a presidential visit to Beijing.
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The leader of last month's coup in Mali rejects the decision by the West African regional body Ecowas to send troops to the country.
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Why the search for Argentina's disappeared goes on
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Could this six-year-old be the world's youngest IT expert?
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Sudan detains four foreigners in the disputed Sudan-South Sudan border area and flies them to Khartoum, military officials say.
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Sudanese officials say four foreigners have been detained in the sensitive Heglig oilfield area, scene of recent fighting with South Sudanese forces.
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