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NetherlandsDutch gripped by a website inviting complaints about East Europeans
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AfghanistanAfghan refuse collector's 48 years of hard work
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United KingdomThe government is activating a power it says will allow most councils in England to hold town hall prayers.
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GermanyTwilight actor Robert Pattinson walks the red carpet in Berlin for the premiere of period drama Bel Ami as the city's film festival draws to a close.
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MexicoThe murder rate in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez dropped by 45% between 2010 and 2011, says President Felipe Calderon.
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Netherlands, 
AustriaDutch Prince Johan Friso is seriously injured in an avalanche while on a skiing holiday in the Austrian resort of Lech.
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United StatesThe FBI and US police have arrested a man they say was aiming to carry out a suicide attack near the Capitol building in Washington DC.
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United StatesThe FBI and US police arrest a man they say was aiming to carry out a suicide attack near the Capitol in Washington DC, officials tell US media.
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RussiaSiberia dirty tricks fuel anti-Moscow backlash
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MaliThe UN says the number of Malian refugees fleeing fighting between Tuareg rebels and the military has doubled over the past 10 days.
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Russia, 
LatviaLatvia votes on whether to make Russian the country's second official language, in a referendum that has exposed deep divisions.
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Japan, United StatesLife inside the US WWII internment camps
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CubaPaperwork challenge for Cuba's private businesses
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Pakistan, United KingdomOpeners Alastair Cook and Kevin Pietersen both reach 50 as England head towards victory over Pakistan in the third one-day international in Dubai.
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IranIranian warships enter the Mediterranean Sea via the Suez Canal for only the second time since the country's revolution in 1979.
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Syria, 
ChinaA Chinese envoy visiting Syria calls on all sides in the country to end violence, amid talks with President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus.
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LibyaWhy firepower is the settler of disputes in the new Libya
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United KingdomEvidence that missing aristocrat Lord Lucan was smuggled out of the UK to a secret life abroad after he disappeared is provided by two new witnesses.
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Mauritania, 
Niger, Mali, 
Burkina FasoThousands of refugees have fled across the border from fighting in northern Mali into neighbouring Niger, Mauritania, and Burkina Faso.
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United StatesRelatives and star-studded friends of US singer Whitney Houston gather in Newark, New Jersey, for her funeral.
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BahrainBahrain struggles to police ongoing protests
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JapanJapanese Emperor Akihito's heart bypass operation at a Tokyo hospital has ended successfully, the palace says.
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Syria, United KingdomActivists play central role in Syria uprising
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Iran, United KingdomIran's nuclear ambitions could plunge the Middle East into "a new Cold War", warns UK Foreign Secretary William Hague.
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Zimbabwe, ChinaFour Chinese nationals face deportation from Zimbabwe after they are arrested for killing and eating rare tortoises, officials say.
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Syria, ChinaSyrian troops fire on a crowd of mourners in Damascus, reportedly killing one, as a visiting Chinese envoy urges all sides to refrain from violence.
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FranceFormer IMF chief Dominique Strauss is to be questioned next week by police in France investigating an alleged prostitution ring in the northern French city of Lille, officials say.
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Pakistan, United KingdomKevin Pietersen hits 111 not out as England seal the one-day international series against Pakistan with a nine-wicket win in Dubai.
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BotswanaPolice in Rio de Janeiro say a record 2.2 million people have attended the Bola Preta street party, one of the most popular events during the Brazilian city's carnival.
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United KingdomVitali Klitschko takes on Britain's Dereck Chisora for the WBC heavyweight championship of the world.
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SyriaSyrian troops have fired on mourners during a funeral that turned into a demonstration in Damascus, killing at least one person, activists say.
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ItalyPope Benedict XVI has created 22 new cardinals - his closest aides - at a ceremony in St Peter's Basilica in Rome.
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Iraq, IranSome 400 residents of an Iranian exile community leave their camp in NW Iraq, but there are complaints about conditions in their new home near Baghdad.
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IranIran appears poised to boost its nuclear programme by installing thousands of new-generation centrifuges, a diplomat tells the BBC.
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