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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.
This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be "above normal" but less severe than 2005, the US climate agency says.
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A bone fragment believed to part of Adolf Hitler's skull has been revealed as being that of an unidentified woman, US scientists say.
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IraqUS and Iraqi forces release video purporting to show young children taking part in deadly training exercises.
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IraqThe US military says it has killed a senior al-Qaeda figure in an air strike in Iraq, naming him as Abu Osama al-Tunisi.
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IraqUS helicopters kill 17 suspected al-Qaeda-linked gunmen near Baquba north of Baghdad, the US military says.
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The US says a suspected al-Qaeda member has been captured in East Africa and sent to Guantanamo Bay.
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AfghanistanUS-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have arrested two suspected al-Qaeda militants.
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AfghanistanUS-led coalition forces in Afghanistan say they have detained four suspected al-Qaeda militants.
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IraqThe US military says four militants have been killed during operations against the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
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PakistanA Pakistani woman scientist accused of links to al-Qaeda appears in a US court charged with trying to kill US soldiers.
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A US court convicts a drug dealer of murdering a teenager - a case that inspired the film Alpha Dog starring Justin Timberlake.
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Afghanistan, PakistanA man thought to be a US citizen is arrested in a tribal area close to the Afghan border, police say.
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A New York City dancer contracts respiratory anthrax, thought to be from raw animal hides on his drums.
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US researchers create a vaccine that prevents rats gaining weight - offering clues about human treatments.
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Russia, 
ThailandAlleged Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout appears in a Thai court to fight extradition to the US on terrorism charges.
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Nine Baptist churches in the US state of Alabama are hit in suspected arson attacks, police say.
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ArubaA federal judge in the US suspends the war crimes trial of an Australian prisoner at Guantanamo base.
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A six-year-old US boy thought to have been carried away by a helium balloon is found alive at his home in Colorado.
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Al-Jazeera airs a tape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in which he warns of attacks on the US.
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Al-Jazeera airs a tape attributed to al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden in which he warns of attacks on the US.
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PakistanA taped message purportedly by al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden accuses Barack Obama of fuelling hatred of the US in Pakistan.
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A taped message purportedly by Osama Bin Laden is released, days after the US marked eight years since 9/11.
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John Wheeler, the US physicist who coined the term "black hole", dies at the age of 96.
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AfghanistanElite US marines train for possible Afghan posting
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ArgentinaA man who tried to fund an Argentine campaign was offered a bribe to hide the sources, a US court hears.
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A US woman faces firearms charges after doctors probing her husband's "headache" find a bullet in his head.
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US scientists have discovered people who can "hear" what they see.
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SudanUS administration chooses middle course on Sudan
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FranceUS President Bush hosts his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, for informal talks at his family home in Maine.
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Hurricane Ike makes landfall in Texas, causing flooding, damaging buildings and cutting power to millions of people.
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Residents in the US state of Texas are urged to evacuate or face "certain death" ahead of Hurricane Ike.
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A father accused of snatching his young daughter on a supervised visit to the US appears in court.
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A plane crashes in the US state of Montana, aviation officials say, killing at least 16 people including children.
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IraqA US military official says insurgents in Iraq used children in a bomb attack, raising fears of new tactics.
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ChinaThe repression of religious freedom in some parts of China has intensified over the past year, a US report says.
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ColombiaColombia says it has struck a deal to allow the US to use its military bases, despite concerns in some South American nations.
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Investigators revise the view that anthrax used in attacks in the US was of military grade, a US paper reports.
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The crew of a submarine made 'dozens of errors' before a collision in the Gulf, according to a US Navy report.
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Congress seeks a successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who will restore faith in the US justice system.
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IraqThe new US ambassador talks of critical months ahead for Iraq, and defends the idea of a wall in central Baghdad.
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The US tests the security of its cyber systems in a week-long simulated attack run by Homeland Security.
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PakistanA Pakistani man detained over the murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl dies weeks after being released.
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Campaigners urge US homosexuals to stay away from work for a day in protest at state bans on gay marriage.
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PakistanA suspected US missile strike in a remote area of north-west Pakistan has killed 13 people, local security officials say.
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A US judge revokes the stay of deportation for John Demjanjuk, accused of being an accessory to the murder of 29,000 Jews in a Nazi camp.
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A US man who thought he was dying and confessed to a 1977 killing is charged with murder after recovering, media say.
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IndiaIndian pulses set racing by new US mini series
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AfghanistanForces in Afghanistan will have to adopt a "dramatically different" strategy to ensure success, the top US general there says.
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US Senators demand to know how investigators managed to enter the US carrying radioactive material.
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US pilots blame a "heated discussion" after they flew 150 miles (240km) beyond their destination, sparking hijack fears.
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PakistanAt least 43 people die in missile strikes by a US drone aircraft in a militant stronghold of Pakistan, a Taliban spokesman tells the BBC.
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Jack Kevorkian, the man known as Dr Death and who helped the terminally ill to die, is freed from a US jail.
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Aruba, 
AustraliaA man dubbed 'Dr Death' by the Australian media returns from the US to face charges he failed patients in his care.
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PakistanTwo missiles suspected to have been fired by a US drone kill a wife of a leading Pakistani militant, relatives tell the BBC.
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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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US soul legend Ike Turner, who died in December, was killed by a cocaine overdose, coroners say.
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A man accused of a robbery at a US police convention is described as probably Pennsylvania's "dumbest" criminal.
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ThailandA suspect in the JonBenet Ramsey murder could be sent to the US as early as this weekend, officials say.
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Americans should "embrace Islam" to stop the Iraq war, says a video from al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
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IraqUS Defence Secretary Robert Gates tells US troops in Iraq that their mission in the country is in its "endgame".
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US researchers have found a way to dramatically increase the harvest of stem cells from adult tissue.
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A way of growing embryonic stem cells that could overcome ethical concerns is developed in the US.
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IraqA "fair and transparent" probe will be held into a Baghdad gunfight involving a US firm, says Iraq's prime minister.
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IraqA woman suicide bomber has killed six people at a bus station in Balad Ruz in Diyala province, Iraqi police say.
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An inmate at Guantanamo Bay slashed his throat with a sharpened fingernail, US officials confirm.
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PakistanA missile fired by a suspected US drone kills at least five people in north-western Pakistan, officials and locals say.
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Pakistan, 
Somalia, 
United KingdomIslamists from Britain, Sweden and Pakistan are killed in joint US-Somali operations, Somali officials say.
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AfghanistanThe US military says coalition forces have killed 40 Taleban in a raid on a compound in southern Afghanistan.
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ArgentinaUS agents say they have seized tonnes of prehistoric fossils they suspect were smuggled from Argentina.
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AfghanistanUS-led forces in Afghanistan say they have killed four suspected al-Qaeda militants in a raid.
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SyriaThe sole surviving suspect in the raid on the US embassy in Syria's capital, Damascus, dies of his wounds.
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Afghanistan, PakistanPakistan says US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan have mistakenly killed one of its border soldiers.
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Women who smoke are no more likely to develop lung cancer than men, US researchers conclude.
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Scientists in the United States say they are a step closer to curing colour blindness using gene therapy.
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US congressional leaders say they have reached the broad outline of a rescue plan for the American financial system.
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The Pentagon orders an inquiry into alleged abuses at Guantanamo Bay after reports of boasting by guards.
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Iraq, 
KuwaitA former Kuwaiti detainee at Guantanamo Bay carried out a recent suicide bombing in Iraq, the US says.
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The US parents of a six-year-old boy who was believed to be adrift in a balloon are to admit charges, their lawyer says.
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An ex-manager of heavy metal band Great White is to plead guilty over a fire at a nightclub that killed 100, reports say.
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United KingdomEBay launches a US classified ad website similar to its Gumtree site, which has proved popular in the UK.
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IranIran says it will give just six months' notice before 10 planned nuclear sites begin operating.
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The number of US adults following a healthy lifestyle falls in the last two decades despite health campaigns, a study shows.
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Afghanistan, IraqThe cost of the US military effort in Iraq and Afghanistan is almost double the official figure, a US report says.
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IraqIraqis vote in large numbers for their first full-term government since the US-led invasion in 2003.
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MexicoThree companies led by Chevron say they have found what may be the biggest US oil field outside Alaska.
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IraqAn 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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ChinaAlmost 900 students are reported to have been buried after an earthquake measuring 7.8 hit south-western China.
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IraqIraqi and US troops kill about 200 militants in fierce fighting around the city of Najaf, Iraqi officials say.
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A report released by a US-based group says South Asia continues to face "critical" levels of hunger.
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A letter written by former US President Abraham Lincoln to a schoolboy nearly 150 years ago is to go on sale for thousands of dollars.
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A US court rules it is unconstitutional to use public funds to teach that life was created by a higher power.
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Belgium, IranUS officials arrest a Belgian man on charges he sought to smuggle F-5 fighter jet engines and other parts to Iran.
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IraqA statement purportedly from the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq hails the Republicans' losses in US mid-term polls.
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Trinidad and TobagoA judge in Trinidad sends three men to the US over an alleged plot to attack JFK airport in New York.
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Teenagers who have overweight friends tend to develop a weight problem themselves, mounting evidence suggests.
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China, MexicoA Chinese-Mexican man is arrested in the US on drugs charges, four months after police found $205m in his home.
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Colombia, MexicoMexican police say they have arrested a top official in a powerful cartel that trafficks cocaine from Colombia to the US.
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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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IraqThe US marines criticises a video posted online apparently showing a US Marine singing about killing Iraqi civilians.
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