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The US says the controversial detention camp at Guantanamo Bay is still needed, rebuffing UK criticism.
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China and Russia delay a vote on a new US-drafted UN resolution calling for sanctions on North Korea.
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The US leader welcomes the fall in petrol prices but says he does not want it to distract from work on alternative fuels.
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UN Security Council members remain divided on a new US resolution on sanctions against North Korea.
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A man pleads guilty to conspiring to murder people in a series of bombings in Britain and the US.
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The centrist former Democrat governor of Virginia pulls out of the 2008 US presidential race.
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The controversial US detention camp is "unacceptable" in terms of human rights, says the foreign secretary.
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Former US presidential candidate Al Gore wins a Quill award for his book An Inconvenient Truth.
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US baseball pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor die as their plane hits a Manhattan apartment block.
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US baseball pitcher Cory Lidle and his flight instructor die as their plane hits a Manhattan apartment block.
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A California man who appeared in al-Qaeda propaganda videos is charged with treason by a US court.
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An estimated 655,000 Iraqis have died as a result of the 2003 US-led invasion, a US-Iraqi academic study says.
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US President George W Bush says North Korea will face "serious repercussions" over its nuclear test claim.
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The US announces a partial end to its arms embargo on Haiti, to allow the country to equip its police force.
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Bumper tax revenues helped the US trim the 2006 federal budget deficit to a four-year low, the US Treasury says.
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A top aide to disgraced ex-Congressman Mark Foley is to testify before a House of Representatives inquiry.
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North Korea's number two leader warns of more nuclear tests if US policy remains "hostile", reports say.
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Indonesia revokes a contract with US energy giant Exxon Mobil to develop the Natuna offshore gas field.
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The US military says that a fire at a Baghdad arms store was caused by an insurgent mortar attack.
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The US announces new measures to enforce Cuba trade sanctions and punish those who violate them.
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Video of the aftermath of an attack in which ITN reporter Terry Lloyd died is shown in public for the first time.
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A couple in the US attempt to dissolve the adoption of their son after discovering his troubled past.
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US professor Edmund Phelps wins the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on unemployment and inflation.
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A colleague confronted ex-lawmaker Mark Foley about his e-mails with teenagers in 2000, a report says.
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Trials of a new male contraceptive are being expanded in the US after overwhelming initial interest.
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US-led and Iraqi troops kill 30 suspected Shia gunmen in the south, as police find 51 bodies in Baghdad.
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The US star is "disappointed" at being unable to shoot a film about the murder of Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
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A plan to support Darfur by cutting investment in Sudanese companies is bearing fruit in the US.
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A suicide bomber kills 14 people in north Iraq as suggestions emerge of a major change in US thinking.
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Canada is to protest formally to the US over the case of a Canadian deported to Syria over alleged terror links.
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US sailor is sentenced to 10 years in jail over his role in the murder of an Iraqi man, but will only serve one year.
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A US Navy medic testifies that marines put an Iraqi civilian in a hole and shot him 10 times in the head.
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US security chief Michael Chertoff says a deal on sharing EU passenger data will help fight terrorism.
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Venezuela demands the US extradite one of its nationals wanted for bombing a Cuban jet in 1976.
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Up to 17,000 people are told to leave their homes after a huge explosion at a chemical plant in North Carolina.
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The US and the EU agree a new deal to share details about airline passengers, after lengthy talks.
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The US secretary of state holds talks with Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq amid tensions over oil.
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A controversial Tokyo shrine is to review a display that says Japan was provoked into war by the US, reports say.
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An inquiry into a sex scandal inolving a former Republican lawmaker begins at the US Congress.
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UN members criticise a Sudanese warning against sending troops to Darfur, but fail to agree on a response.
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The US administration blocks the release of a man wanted by Venezuela and Cuba for a plane bombing 30 years ago.
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The Amish community buries the young victims of a school massacre in the US state of Pennsylvania.
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The top Republican in the US Congress apologises for a sex scandal involving a colleague - but says he will not quit.
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Child pornography charges against a former suspect in the killing of US child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey are dropped.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tells Iraqi leaders they must act quickly to help tackle soaring levels of violence.
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EU and US negotiators make a new effort to resolve a dispute over the transfer of data about air passengers.
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The US secretary of state holds talks with Israeli ministers in Jerusalem, on the latest leg of her regional tour.
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Iraqi officials do DNA tests on a militant killed in a US military raid to determine if he is the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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Washington can continue wiretapping without warrants until its appeal against a ban on the practice is heard, a US court rules.
A US government wiretap scheme breaches the constitution and should be halted at once, a judge says.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice seeks to boost beleaguered Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
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The US issues a strong warning that it will not accept a nuclear-armed North Korea, amid fears of a nuclear test.
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US Republican leader Dennis Hastert faces new claims he covered up a scandal over lurid e-mails.
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President Bush signs a law to pay for a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border in a bid to stop illegal immigrants.
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Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke says inflation in the US is still too high despite a slowdown.
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Brussels suggests making US diplomats vet visas, as many EU citizens still need them to travel to the US.
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A Brazilian court seizes the passports of two US pilots involved in a mid-air collision that killed 155 people.
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Pagans of the Wicca faith in the US demand they be allowed to display their symbol in military graveyards.
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The publisher of a Florida paper quits after it rehires three journalists sacked over anti-Cuba broadcasts.
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US President George W Bush voices disgust at a former congressman accused of sending suggestive e-mails.
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Japanese car firm Toyota sees vehicle sales soar in September, in contrast to its US rivals.
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A gunman who attacked a US Amish school said he molested two young members of his family 20 years ago.
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The Nato alliance is to assume control of military operations across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday.
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The US and the UK say key world powers will seek UN sanctions against Iran over the nuclear stand-off.
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Police investigate why a gunman killed five girls at an Amish school, saying it may have been "revenge".
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The US secretary of state calls for an end to the violence in the Palestinian territories, during a regional tour.
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The US secretary of state begins a regional tour to try to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace moves.
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A gunman shoots dead four girls before killing himself in an attack on a Pennsylvania Amish school.
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The US government is tipped to propose a system to stop internet gambling sites, say experts, as UK gambling stocks tumble.
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Former US Congressman Mark Foley, embroiled in an e-mail sex scandal, says he is being treated for alcoholism.
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A 2005 letter found after the death of al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq says its leaders were in Pakistan, a US paper reports.
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Two US scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine for their pioneering work in genetics.
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Key US officials call for a full probe into sexually suggestive e-mails former Congressman Mark Foley sent to aides.
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Why EU-US talks on renewing a deal on the transfer of air passenger data collapsed.
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Talks on sharing airline passenger data between the US and EU states have broken down, the EU says.
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The US Senate approves the building of a fence along the Mexican border designed to keep out illegal migrants.
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US President George W Bush holds talks with the Kazakh president, boosting ties with the oil-producing nation.
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A head teacher is shot at a high school in the US state of Wisconsin and a suspect is in custody.
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Washington Post writer Bob Woodward says, in a new book, that the true extent of the Iraq war is being hidden.
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Disgraced US lobbyist Jack Abramoff had more contacts with the White House than it has admitted, an inquiry finds.
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A Catholic priest is held in Florida and another is on the run after stealing millions from parishioners, police say.
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The US Senate endorses President Bush's plans to interrogate and prosecute foreign terror suspects.
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The US military rejects claims that its soldiers abandoned civilian truck drivers during an insurgent attack in Iraq.
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Colorado police say the gunman in a fatal high school siege sexually abused some of his girl hostages.
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The US cancels military assistance to Thailand in response to last week's military coup.
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Attacks near the Afghan border with Pakistan triple in some areas despite a peace deal, the US military says.
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The New York Stock Exchange's benchmark Dow Jones share index trades above its record closing high.
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The US president appeals to the Afghan and Pakistani leaders to put aside their differences to fight terrorism.
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A gunman kills himself and a teenage girl hostage as US police storm a Colorado school, officials say.
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The US House of Representatives passes a bill allowing military tribunals for foreign terrorism suspects.
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Ten people are killed in an attack at a Baghdad mosque, as the US says suicide attacks are at record levels.
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US prosecutors fail yet again to convict John "Junior" Gotti, son of New York Mafia boss John Gotti.
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Air passengers travelling to European Union countries may face a 100ml limit on how much they can take on board.
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US Democrats urge the Bush administration to release in full a report linking the Iraq conflict and global terrorism.
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The Iraq conflict has become a "cause celebre" for Muslim jihadists, a declassified US intelligence report says.
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Two brothers who led Colombia's infamous Cali drug cartel are each sentenced to 30 years in US jails.
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The US reaches agreement with Iceland on how to end its military presence in the country.
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North Korea blames US financial sanctions for deadlock in multilateral talks on its nuclear programme.
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Byron Nelson, one of American golf's greatest players, has died at the age of 94 in his native Texas.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denies President Clinton's claim that he did more to stop al-Qaeda.
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