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At least 21 people who were among a group of more than 40 people abducted in the southern Philippines have been killed.
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Shimon Peres, Israel's president, has said there has been "progress" in efforts to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier captured by Hamas three years ago.
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Saudi Arabian forces have carried out an incursion into Yemeni territory using tanks, artillery and aircraft, the Houthi rebel group has said.
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From a translucent giant octopus to a fish bearing barbed fangs, a team of international scientists say they have discovered hundreds of new species living in total darkness at least 5km beneath the surface of the world's oceans.
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Sri Lankan and Afghan asylum seekers at an Australian detention centre on Christmas Island have been separated after riots broke out over the weekend.
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Manmohan Singh, India's prime minister, has arrived in Washington for a four-day visit aimed at bettering ties with the US.
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Several Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip have denied Hamas claims that an agreement has been brokered among them to stop firing rockets across the border into Israel.
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Cambodia's Khmer Rouge war crimes court has begun the final arguments in its first trial, bringing the regime's prison chief closer to justice for the "Killing Fields" atrocities 30 years ago.
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The number of workers killed by a gas explosion at a mine in northeastern China has risen to more than 100.
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A German rail company has signed a $26 billion contract to construct an underground railway network in Qatar and a track to Bahrain.
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Hundreds of Brazilians have protested against a visit by the Iranian president.
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Traian Basescu, Romania's incumbent president, has won the first round of the country’s presidential elections.
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Ilham Aliyev, the president of Azerbaijan, has warned Serzh Sargsian, his Armenian counterpart, that he will pursue a military option against Armenia if a long-running border dispute is not resolved in Munich this week.
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Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, calling for the resignation of President Mamadou Tandja.
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A former Iranian vice-president has been sentenced to six years in jail after being accused of inciting unrest following the country’s presidential elections in June.
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