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Somali pirates have now seized three ships off the coast of the Horn of Africa since hijacking their largest target ever, the Sirius Star carrying $100m worth of oil.
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Rose Kabuye, an aide to Rwanda's president who was arrested in Frankfurt earlier this month in connection with the assassination of a former president of the country, has been extradited to France.
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Al-Qaeda has warned Barack Obama, the US president-elect, against sending more troops to Afghanistan and vowed to continue attacks against "criminal" America.
19/11/2008
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Legislators loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr, the Iraqi Shia leader, have shouted down a parliamentary debate over a security pact that would keep US troops in Iraq for three more years.
19/11/2008
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At least five people have been killed in a suspected US missile attack in the North West Frontier province of Pakistan, near the Afghan border, security officials said.
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United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed that rebel fighters have started withdrawing around two eastern towns.
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A Turkish soldier has been killed and at least four others wounded in clashes with Kurdish fighters in eastern Turkey, according to media reports.
19/11/2008
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The trial of three people accused of being involved in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya, an investigative journalist and Kremlin critic, is closed to the public, a step that lawyers said could hinder justice being done.
19/11/2008
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The senior commander of international forces in Afghanistan has said supporting local leaders could be the key to halting the growing violence across the country.
19/11/2008
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China's president has signed a range of trade deals with Cuba and pledged millions of dollars in aid to the Caribbean nation as it struggles to recover from the impact of three hurricanes.
19/11/2008
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The US Food and Drug Administration has opened its first office in China as part of a global strategy to ensure the safety of imports from China.
19/11/2008
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The three biggest US car makers have pleaded with congress for $25 billion in aid to save their businesses, warning that their collapse would further damage the ailing US economy.
19/11/2008
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The United Nations has criticised Israel's closure of the Gaza crossings as a "direct contravention of international human rights and humanitarian law".
19/11/2008
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A former attorney general could become the first African-American to head the US justice department after being selected for the post by Barack Obama, the US president-elect.
19/11/2008
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Doctors have given a woman a windpipe with tissue grown from her own stem cells, eliminating the need for anti-rejection drugs.
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