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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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Iraq's prime minister has defended a pact to keep US forces in his country until the end 2011.
19/11/2008
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Riot police in Zimbabwe have prevented striking doctors and nurses from protesting against the country's collapsing health care system.
19/11/2008
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Ten Sudanese newspapers have suspended publication as part of a growing protest against state censorship, Sudanese journalists said.
19/11/2008
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An Indian warship in the Gulf of Aden has fought a battle with Somali pirates just hours after three vessels were hijacked off the coast of Somalia.
19/11/2008
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A Saudi supertanker hijacked by pirates with a $100 million oil cargo has anchored off Somalia, the US navy has said.
18/11/2008
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An Egyptian court has overruled a controversial 20-year deal on gas exports to Israel.
18/11/2008
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Israel has closed its crossings into the Gaza Strip, a day after it allowed trucks carrying aid into the besieged coastal territory.
18/11/2008
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David Miliband, the British foreign minister, has held talks with Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, in Syria's capital, Damascus.
18/11/2008
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Rebel fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo have overrun a government army base despite their leader's pledge to respect a ceasefire and engage in UN-backed peace talks.
18/11/2008
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Iraq and the US have signed a security accord requiring Washington to withdraw its forces by the end of 2011.
18/11/2008
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Pirates have attacked and taken control of the Saudi-owned crude carrier Sirius Star off the east coast of Africa, a spokesman for the Bahrain-based US Navy Fifth Fleet says.
17/11/2008
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The Israelis have temporarily opened the Karem Abu Salem border crossing with Gaza to allow a limited supply of humanitarian aid to reach the territory.
17/11/2008
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Cristina Kirchner, the Argentinian president, has arrived in Algeria at the start of a six-day North African trip aimed at boosting economic ties.
17/11/2008
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The leader of a Tutsi rebel army which is fighting government forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has agreed to support a peace process, after he held talks with a United Nations envoy.
16/11/2008
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