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Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian prime minister, has refused to provide funds for an early election, called by the president, saying the money should be used to cushion the effects of the global financial crisis.
15/10/2008
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The US government is to buy stakes in some of the country's largest banks in an act of interventionism seen by many economists as contrary to the principles of laisse-faire capitalism.
14/10/2008
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Britain's upper house of parliament has rejected a controversial proposal to detain terrorism suspects without charge for 42 days to facilitate police investigations.
14/10/2008
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Sarah Palin, the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, abused her power as Alaska's governor when she fired the state's public safety commissioner, a legislative committee has found.
11/10/2008
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As of early October, national polls and the electoral map are leaning towards Barack Obama.
10/10/2008
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Robert Gates, the US defence secretary, has said his country would "ultimately" be prepared to reconcile with the Taliban group to end the conflict in Afghanistan.
10/10/2008
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Far more civilians and children were killed in several US air raids on a village in Afghanistan in August that was first acknowledged, a US military investigation has concluded.
09/10/2008
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Ukraine's president has set a date of December 7 for snap parliamentary elections, in the wake of the collapse of the country's coalition government.
09/10/2008
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A US judge's order for the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees at the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has been blocked by the Bush administration.
09/10/2008
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The UN General Assembly has approved Serbia's request to ask a UN court if Kosovo's secession in February this year was legal.
09/10/2008
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The global economic crisis has dominated the second debate between Barack Obama and John McCain, the US presidential candidates.
08/10/2008
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The United Nations Security Council has approved unanimously a resolution urging nations to send more naval ships and military aircraft to stop piracy off the coast of Somalia.
08/10/2008
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A decisive military victory in Afghanistan is impossible and the Taliban may have to be part of a long-term solution for the country, a senior British commander in Afghanistan has said.
05/10/2008
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George Bush, the US president, has signed into law a $700bn rescue plan for troubled financial institutions in an attempt to deal with the global credit crisis.
04/10/2008
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OJ Simpson, the former American football star who was famously cleared of a double murder in 1995, has been found guilty of robbery and kidnapping.
04/10/2008
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