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We have started to collect the most important news related to United States in November 2005. By default, most recent news are listed first.
An alert goes out to police across the US as a mother flees with her cancer-stricken son to avoid chemotherapy.
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US scientists may have solved the mystery of why people with Down's syndrome appear to have a lower risk of some cancers.
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Wayne Allwine, the American actor who was the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, dies at the age of 62.
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EgyptEgypt's President Hosni Mubarak cancels a trip to the US after his grandson dies.
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Israel, 
SyriaIsrael can "immediately begin" talks with the Palestinians and Syria, PM Benjamin Netanyahu says after returning from the US.
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A federal judge rules that the US government can detain terror suspects indefinitely, but only if they were involved in the 9/11 attacks.
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US financial institutions will repay at least $25bn of bail-out funds over the next year, the US Treasury says.
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Serbia and MontenegroThe US vice-president assures Serbia the two countries can open a new page in relations, despite differences on Kosovo.
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AfghanistanThe US army says 20-30 civilians may have died in a disputed US attack that the Afghan government says killed 140.
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President Barack Obama unveils plans to make vehicles more fuel efficient, to cut US oil use and set the first national standards.
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SomaliaA Somali teenager captured by the US during the rescue of an American sea captain from pirates is indicted on piracy charges.
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IsraelIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hails US lawmakers as "great friends of Israel" as he ends his visit.
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The US Senate is to reject a call for $80m from the White House to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
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Oil prices have dipped from a six-month high above $60 a barrel after weak housing data was released.
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PakistanPakistan denies a US allegation it is expanding its nuclear arsenal, amid fears of a local proliferation of nuclear weapons.
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IsraelDifferences may lead to friction in US-Israeli ties
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PakistanThe US announces a $110m emergency aid package to assist those caught up in the fighting in Pakistan's north-west.
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A beautifully preserved 47-million-year-old fossil gives scientists new insights into the early evolution of primates.
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Bosnia and HerzegovinaUS Vice-President Joe Biden arrives in the Balkans for a three-day tour of Bosnia-Hercegovina, Serbia and Kosovo.
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RussiaRussia and the US hold the first of three days of talks in Moscow on a new treaty to cut their stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
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ChinaBrazil and China forge closer trade links
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A US judge postpones the sentencing of a woman convicted in a landmark MySpace cyber-bullying case.
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HaitiBill Clinton is to be the new UN special envoy to Haiti, a spokesman for the former US president says.
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IsraelBarack Obama urges Benjamin Netanyahu to commit to a Palestinian state, but Israel's PM refrains from backing the plan.
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US stocks climb as reassuring news about housing and banking revive investor confidence in an economic recovery.
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IraqEx-US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is reported to have allowed Bible verses to be put on his briefings during the Iraq War.
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Woody Allen wins a $5m (£3.3m) settlement from American Apparel after it used his image on adverts without consent.
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A lawsuit against FBI director Robert Mueller and ex-Attorney General John Ashcroft by a former 9/11 detainee cannot proceed, the US Supreme Court rules.
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Former tycoon Conrad Black will have his appeal against his fraud conviction heard by the US Supreme Court.
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Mark Urban on the new realities of US-Israel relationship
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The boss of classified adverts website Craigsist says the firm is being unfairly targeted by US prosecutors.
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IsraelTough talks ahead when Israeli and US leaders meet
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President Obama is heckled as he speaks to graduates at an Indiana Catholic university amid a row over abortion rights.
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Ghana, RussiaBarack Obama will visit in Ghana in July, quashing speculation his first sub-Saharan trip as US president would be to Kenya.
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Europe completes its last major space station module and will now ship it to the Kennedy Space Center in the US for launch.
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ChinaPresident Obama names a Mandarin-speaking Republican politician, Jon Huntsman, to be his ambassador to China.
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PakistanA car bomb kills at least 11 people and injures many others in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, police say.
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Paul Adams recalls two decades of witnessing US presidents trying to bring peace to the Middle East.
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Eritrea, SomaliaThe US is "seriously concerned" by reports that Eritrea is supplying hardline Islamists in neighbouring Somalia with arms.
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North Korea, 
SwedenThe Swedish envoy to North Korea meets for a second time two US journalists who face trial for entering the country illegally.
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Troubled US carmaker General Motors announces plans to close up to 1,100 of its US dealerships in a bid to avoid bankruptcy.
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VenezuelaVenezuelan President Hugo Chavez orders the temporary expropriation of a US-owned pasta mill, amid a battle over price regulation.
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AlgeriaAn Algerian who won a test case on Guantanamo detainees' rights has been set free, officials say.
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Former Bush aide Karl Rove is questioned over the 2006 sackings of several attorneys, US media report.
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Controversial military trials will restart for some Guantanamo detainees, the US president says, months after suspending them.
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Algeria, 
FranceAlgerian detainee Lakhdar Boumediene has left the US-run Guantanamo Bay prison camp for France, officials say.
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Leading US retailers have seen their quarterly results hit as consumers continue to tighten their belts, sending profits and sales lower.
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US consumer prices were unchanged in April, but recorded their largest year-on-year drop, data shows.
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The US President is expected to announce that trials will restart in Guantanamo. Is this the right decision?
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IranUS-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi flies out of Iran, following her release from jail.
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US President Obama is expected to announce that much-criticised military trials will restart for some Guantanamo detainees.
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EgyptEgypt tries a US couple for child trafficking after they allegedly attempted to adopt newborn twins with forged papers in Cairo.
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EgyptEgypt tries a US couple for child trafficking after they allegedly attempted to adopt newborn twins with forged papers in Cairo.
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North KoreaNorth Korea sets a date for the trial of two US female journalists it accuses of entering the country illegally.
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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says she was misled by the CIA about the use of harsh methods during terror interrogations.
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US carmaker Chrysler tells a bankruptcy court that it plans to close 789 of its 3,200 dealerships.
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BurmaBurmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is jailed pending trial over the visit of a man to her home, her lawyer says.
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US classified ads website Craigslist is to remove its erotic category, following claims that it promotes prostitution.
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HaitiAt least 10 people die after a boat carrying nearly 30 migrants - most of them Haitian - sinks off southern Florida.
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Barack Obama says releasing more photos of prisoner abuse by US soldiers is unnecessary and could inflame anti-US opinion.
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The US Treasury seeks more regulation of the financial instruments that brought down leading Wall Street firms.
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Justin Webb's personal take on reform in the US
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AustraliaA US man returns to Australia to face charges that he murdered his wife while scuba diving on their honeymoon.
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AfghanistanA suicide car bombing near a US base in east Afghanistan kills seven civilians and injures several more, the US military says.
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Medicare and Social Security programmes for older people will run out of money sooner than expected, the US says.
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IraqBaghdad Sunnis miss out on new US and Iraqi optimism
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GermanyAlleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is taken to a German prison, after being deported from the United States.
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Sri Lanka, 
United KingdomThe US and Britain urge an "immediate" end to fighting in Sri Lanka and an evacuation of trapped civilians.
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IraqA US soldier is charged with five counts of murder a day after a shooting at a clinic in a Baghdad army base.
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Five men are convicted in Miami of plotting attacks against several US targets, including Chicago's Sears tower.
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AfghanistanWhat does a new US general mean for Afghanistan?
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The US has been elected to a seat on the UN Human Rights Council for the first time, reversing a Bush-era boycott.
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IranUS-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi thanks those who helped win her freedom, a day after she is released from jail.
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IranUS-Iranian journalist Roxana Saberi, released from jail in Iran, thanks those who helped win her freedom.
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GermanyAlleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk is to face charges in Germany after being deported from the US, police say.
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GermanyAlleged Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk has arrived in Germany after being deported from the US, police say.
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Afghanistan, PakistanMissiles fired by a suspected US drone kill at least eight people in Pakistan, close to the Afghan border, officials say.
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AfghanistanThe US defence secretary says he forced out the top American general in Afghanistan because "new thinking" was needed.
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IraqA US soldier is under arrest after shooting dead five of his compatriots at a military base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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IranThe US-Iranian journalist jailed in Iran, Roxana Saberi, is released from prison after having her sentence for spying cut.
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US health industry leaders agree to implement spending cuts, freeing up funds for President Obama's health reform plans.
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IndiaIndian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was ready to let the Left take credit for a final US nuclear deal, his ex-media adviser says.
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RussiaThe Kremlin announces that US President Obama will visit Russia in July, as the two countries pursue nuclear weapons cuts.
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IraqFive US soldiers have been shot dead at a military base in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, the US military says.
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IranUS-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi is to be freed after her sentence for spying for the US is cut on appeal, her lawyer says.
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Californian fire officials suspect power tools used to clear brush may have started the wildfire that swept Santa Barbara.
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Iraq, United KingdomTwo Iraqis go on trial in Baghdad accused of murdering two British soldiers during the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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MexicoThe US now has more confirmed swine flu cases than Mexico, with a spike in numbers since Friday bringing the total to 2,532.
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AfghanistanA top US general orders a probe into the use of air strikes in Afghanistan, following protests about civilian casualties.
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IranA court in Iran has heard an appeal from jailed US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi, two days earlier than expected.
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IraqA leading figure in a US-allied militia has been killed by a roadside bomb in Taji, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Costa RicaThe US reports its third death from swine flu and a man dies in Costa Rica, as three more countries confirm the virus.
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GeorgiaA university professor in the US state of Georgia wanted for killing his wife and two others is found dead.
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Evidence emerges that Sir Allen Stanford, accused of a $6bn fraud, was likely a US government informer.
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Evidence emerges that Sir Allen Stanford, accused of a $6bn fraud, was likely a US government informer.
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AfghanistanA joint US-Afghan inquiry confirms civilians died in recent US air strikes in Farah but does not clarify the number of dead.
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AfghanistanAfghan President Hamid Karzai calls on the US to halt air strikes in his country, following an attack that killed civilians.
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GermanyA man wanted in Germany for Nazi war crimes is ordered by US authorities to surrender to an immigration office for deportation.
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EgyptPresident Obama is to deliver a long-awaited speech on US relations with the Muslim world on a visit to Egypt.
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