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At least three people have been killed in an suicide bomb attack near a government office in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar.
17/11/2008
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Josef Fritzl, an Austrian man who held his daughter as a sex slave in a cellar for 24 years, has been charged with murdering one of the children he had with her.
16/11/2008
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At least 20 people have been killed in an attack on a US convoy passing through a busy Afghan market.
13/11/2008
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An American aid worker and his Pakistani driver have been shot dead by unidentified men in northeast Pakistan.
12/11/2008
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Mellissa Fung, a journalist working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Afghanistan, has been freed after being seized at a UN refugee camp outside Kabul last month.
09/11/2008
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Argentina's lower house has passed a controversal bill to nationalise $26bn of pension funds.
07/11/2008
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Two Afghan villagers are alleging that dozens of women and children attending a wedding party in southern Afghanistan were killed or wounded by air raids.
05/11/2008
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A breakaway faction of South Africa's governing African National Congress has vowed to win next year's general election.
04/11/2008
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An Afghan government official visiting relatives in a Pakistani border town has been abducted by gunmen.
03/11/2008
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A breakaway faction of South Africa's governing African National Congress (ANC) has said it will form a new party to contest general elections next year.
02/11/2008
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Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is pulling out of an operation on the Italian island of Lampedusa, where it has aided African migrants to Europe.
02/11/2008
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Two Austrian hostages kidnapped by al-Qaeda's North African offshoot in the Tunisian desert in February have been freed, the Austrian foreign ministry says.
01/11/2008
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Thousands of people across five provinces in Peru have protested against the government of Alan Garcia in the first major test of the Peruvian president's newly-installed cabinet.
30/10/2008
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A US court has convicted the most senior Republican in the country's senate of failing to report $250,000 worth of gifts he received from an oil services company.
28/10/2008
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A suicide bomber, disguised as a policeman, has killed an American soldier and wounded six other people at a police headquarters in northern Afghanistan.
27/10/2008
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