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Mexican police have found decapitated bodies of 12 people, some of which show signs of torture.
29/08/2008
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Evo Morales, the Bolivian president, has set the date for a referendum on a new constitution that allows presidential re-election and aims to empower a the country's indigenous majority.
29/08/2008
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John McCain, the US Republican presidential candidate, has picked Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, as his running-mate to take on Barack Obama in November's poll.
29/08/2008
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The Malaysian government has blocked access to a popular blog known for its sensational political postings, sparking complaints that the government has reneged on a pledge to keep cyberspace uncensored.
29/08/2008
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Mexico's supreme court has upheld a law allowing abortion in the nation's capital, defying president Felipe Calderon's conservative government and the Roman Catholic Church on the issue.
29/08/2008
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At least 2.5 million people in India are marooned after heavy monsoon rains lashed their villages, government officials say.
28/08/2008
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Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, has said he will form a new government with or without the opposition.
27/08/2008
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More than a dozen people have been killed and many more injured after a series of explosions rocked a chemical plant in southwestern China.
27/08/2008
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At least seven people have been killed and 20 injured in a late-night explosion at a street cafe on the outskirts of Pakistan's capital which police suspect to be a bomb attack.
27/08/2008
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Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian president, has signed a decree under which Russia formally recognises the breakaway Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as independent states.
26/08/2008
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Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's president, has been heckled as he opened parliament claiming there was "every expectation" that all parties would agree to a power-sharing deal.
26/08/2008
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Malaysia's opposition has claimed a landslide victory for Anwar Ibrahim, its leader, in a special by-election for a parliamentary seat.
26/08/2008
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The Philippine military is continuing with a massive air and ground assault to capture two Muslim separatist leaders in the southern province of Mindanao.
26/08/2008
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Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian opposition figure facing sodomy charges, is set to contest a by-election in Penang, marking his political comeback after a decade.
25/08/2008
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Politicians and prosecutors in Mexico have agreed to work together to tackle a recent surge in drug-related killings and abductions.
22/08/2008
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