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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.
IraqInsurgents in Iraq have hacked into live video feeds from unmanned American drone aircraft, US media reports say.
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ColombiaColombia's Farc and ELN rebel groups say they intend to join forces against government troops.
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ChinaWhat will 2010 bring for business, savers, borrowers?
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PakistanUS diplomats complain that Pakistan is delaying the extension of visas of more than 100 US officials.
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PakistanAt least 12 suspected Taliban militants were killed in two separate attacks by unmanned US drone aircraft in north-west Pakistan, security officials say.
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RussiaRussia's foreign minister says the US is responsible for a "slowdown" in talks to agree a new nuclear weapons cuts treaty.
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The Federal Reserve decides to keep US interest rates on hold at between 0% and 0.25%, as widely expected.
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LA Galaxy striker Landon Donovan is set to join Everton on loan in January after the clubs agree a "deal in principle".
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SwitzerlandSwiss banking group Credit Suisse says it will pay $536m for violating US sanctions against Iran.
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North KoreaUS President Barack Obama sends a personal letter to North Korea's Kim Jong-il, apparently about nuclear talks.
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Intel, the world's biggest chip maker, is being sued by US authorities, accused of anti-competitive measures.
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The US Federal Reserve chairman wins the Time Magazine award for steering the US economy through its worst year since the 1930s.
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Abba are picked to be inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with artists including Genesis and Jimmy Cliff.
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IranThe US House of Representatives approves new sanctions against foreign firms that help Iran import oil.
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President Obama orders the government to buy a prison in Illinois to take a number of inmates from Guantanamo Bay.
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US President Barack Obama says he is cautiously optimistic a landmark healthcare bill will be passed in the Senate
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Boeing's new 787 Dreamliner passenger aircraft successfully completes its first test flight in the US.
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The US House of Representatives approves a bill forcing broadcasters to limit the volume of television advertisements.
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Renowned US evangelist Oral Roberts, who pioneered religious broadcasting, dies in California at the age of 91.
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US President Barack Obama summons Democratic senators to seek ways of ensuring the passage of healthcare reform.
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ChinaChina rejects calls from the US and the EU to release a prominent dissident as interference in its internal affairs.
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United Arab Emirates, 
United KingdomIreland and Scotland are grouped with Afghanistan and the USA at the ICC World Twenty20 qualifier in the United Arab Emirates from 9 to 13 February.
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CubaCuba's former leader Fidel Castro tells a summit of leftist regional heads that the US is plotting the overthrow of Latin American left-wing governments.
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President Barack Obama tells US bankers to increase business loans, and warns them not to thwart regulatory reform.
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Two US men who plotted to aid terrorists by filming Washington landmarks are sentenced to 17 and 13 years in jail.
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IranA court in the US state of Delaware jails an Iranian man for five years for plotting to procure and smuggle arms to Iran.
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United KingdomThe US Supreme Court refuses to consider an appeal by four British former Guantanamo Bay prisoners over alleged abuses.
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Iran, IraqUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Tehran to free three US hikers facing trial in Iran after crossing into the country.
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Citigroup says it will repay $20bn in US bail-out funds, marking its exit from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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A Nasa satellite designed to uncover hidden cosmic objects is scheduled to be launched from California.
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PakistanA court in Pakistan rules that five Americans detained for suspected militant links cannot be deported while judges review their case.
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Citigroup says it will repay $20bn in US bailout funds. The move marks its exit from the US government's Troubled Asset Relief Program.
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VenezuelaCuba's President Castro issues a fierce denunciation of the US, echoed by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, at a trade summit.
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United KingdomCadbury and Hershey are in talks with a view to the US firm making a bid for the British confectioner, the BBC learns.
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Afghanistan, PakistanThe regional US commander, David Petraeus, has urged Pakistan to step up pressure on the Afghan Taliban.
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Houston becomes the largest US city to elect an openly gay mayor, after Annise Parker wins a run-off vote.
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RussiaTalks between the US and Russia on a new nuclear arms reduction treaty are being extended, the Kremlin announces.
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AfghanistanEmbedded with the US marines in Afghanistan's Helmand province, Mark Urban says the Taliban are proving hard to track down.
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United KingdomWorld number one Tiger Woods says he is taking an indefinite break from golf, after publicly admitting his 'infidelity' for the first time.
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PakistanThe CIA cancels a contract with US private security firm Blackwater for its role in drone aircraft attacks in Pakistan.
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JapanThe United States and Japan agree to a new "open skies" deal cutting restrictions on flights between the two countries.
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JapanThe United States and Japan have agreed to a new "open skies" deal cutting restrictions on flights between the two countries.
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US immigration agents detain 286 suspected illegal immigrant criminals in California in the largest operation of its kind.
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A Massachusetts jury charges a woman of 98 with suffocating her 100-year-old roommate after complaining about visitors.
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PakistanA suspected key al-Qaeda figure is thought to have been killed in a drone strike in Pakistan last week, US officials say.
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The US House of Representatives approves the most sweeping reforms to the financial sector since the 1930s.
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IranUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Latin American countries to "think twice" before getting too close to Iran.
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Afghanistan, IraqUS security firm Blackwater denies a New York Times report that it took part in CIA raids in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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EritreaThirty elderly women have been arrested in Eritrea while praying, one of their relatives living in the US tells the BBC.
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IranThe US Defense Secretary says he expects "significant" new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme.
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Colombia, 
EcuadorA Colombian attack on a rebel camp in Ecuador was carried out with support from US forces in Ecuador, a new report alleges.
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North KoreaNorth Korea says it will co-operate with the US on its nuclear programme and agrees stalled talks need to resume.
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CanadaThe US and Canada suffer with heavy snowfalls
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US bank Goldman Sachs says its 30 top executives will not receive cash bonuses in 2009, as it seeks to cut excessive risk-taking.
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The son of US fantasy artist Frank Frazetta is charged with trying to steal paintings from his father's museum.
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A winter storm that brought record snow in the US Midwest moves on but many states are set for more freezing weather, as the search continues for 16 missing hunters in Arizona.
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A US police officer shoots and kills a suspect in New York's Times Square, officials say.
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PakistanFive suspected militants held in Punjab province are US nationals wanted by the FBI, the US and Pakistan say.
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NorwayUS President Barack Obama defends the waging of "morally justified" war as he collects the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo.
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Computer hacker Gary McKinnon lodges papers for a fresh High Court challenge to stop him being sent for trial in the US.
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Climate change divides evangelical Christians in the US
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North KoreaThe US special envoy for North Korea says he has had "useful" talks with officials on a three-day trip to Pyongyang.
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PakistanThe FBI investigates the arrest in Pakistan of five suspected US nationals on suspicion of links to extremist groups, officials say.
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The US Congress is to subpoena two White House gatecrashers to answer questions about their presence at a state dinner.
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IndiaA Chicago man accused of involvement in the deadly attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai last year pleads not guilty.
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Afghanistan, IraqA top US general says military success in Afghanistan is likely to be slower than in Iraq after the troop surge there.
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US transport officials are placed on leave after airport security procedure details were mistakenly posted online.
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US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner announces the $700bn US financial bail-out fund will be extended until October next year.
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Iran, 
Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabian government denies Iranian claims that the US abducted an Iranian nuclear scientist on its soil.
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FranceVeteran French rock star Johnny Hallyday is admitted to hospital in the US with a post-operative infection, his spokesman says.
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As The World Turns, one of the world's longest-running daytime soap operas, is being cancelled after 54 years, CBS announces
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CubaTwo men jailed for spying in the US as part of the "Cuban Five" have their sentences cut from life to 30 years and 19 to 18 years.
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AfghanistanThe top US commander in Afghanistan says al-Qaeda cannot be defeated until Osama Bin Laden is killed or captured.
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Procedures for screening passengers travelling through US airports are accidentally posted online by security officials.
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The US government settles a case over royalties owed to American Indians after a dispute which originated in 1887.
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Oil prices fall for the fifth day in a row, weighed down by a stronger US dollar and amid concerns over demand.
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US lender CIT Group's reorganisation plan is approved by a judge, paving the way for it to exit bankruptcy protection within days.
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A convicted Ohio man becomes the first person to be executed in the US with a single dose of a lethal drug.
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IranTehran accuses the US of abducting a nuclear scientist who has been missing since June.
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President Obama sets out proposals aimed at boosting employment, including winding up the US bank bail-out fund.
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AfghanistanAfghanistan's President Hamid Karzai warns it will take 15 years before the country is able to fund its own security forces.
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North KoreaThe US envoy to North Korea, Stephen Bosworth, arrives in North Korea for the first high-level Obama administration visit.
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PakistanAt least three suspected militants are killed in a US drone attack in north-western Pakistan, officials say.
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DenmarkThe EU and UN hail a US declaration that greenhouse emissions harm health, as climate talks are held in Copenhagen.
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President Obama says money not spent under the US bank bail-out package could be used to cut the US deficit and boost jobs.
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The US declares greenhouse gases harmful to human health, paving the way to regulating emissions for the first time.
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Although the US economy is improving, it is too early to say that the recovery will last, Fed chairman Ben Bernanke says.
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An internal US Secret Service document reveals there have been 91 breaches of security since 1980.
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IndiaUS prosecutors charge a Chicago man with involvement in the deadly attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai last year.
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South KoreaUS envoy Stephen Bosworth stops in Seoul on his way to North Korea to try to resume nuclear disarmament talks.
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President Barack Obama meets Senate Democrats and tells them to "get the job done" on healthcare reform legislation.
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AfghanistanSenior government figures reject criticism of President Barack Obama's plan to start pulling troops from Afghanistan in 2011.
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The election of a second openly gay bishop in the Anglican Church in the US raises "very serious questions", its top leader says.
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Defence Secretary Robert Gates admits the US has had no reliable information on Osama Bin Laden's whereabouts "in years".
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US defence experts launch 10 red balloons across the country to assess the accuracy with which information spreads on the internet.
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A US diocese elects only the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican Church, reigniting a hugely divisive issue.
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Influential US Senator Max Baucus nominated his girlfriend for a key post earlier this year, his office says.
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A letter written by the first US President George Washington sells at auction for $3.2m (£1.9m).
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The US unemployment rate fell back in November to 10%, from 10.2% in October, the US Labor Department says.
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