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Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician rescued after being held by Farc rebels for six years, is flying back to France after being reunited with her family.
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The Georgian breakaway region of South Ossetia has ordered a "general mobilisation" of its forces after three people were killed in shelling, the province's government has said.
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China and Taiwan have resumed regular direct flights between the two sides for the first time in nearly 60 years.
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More than 50 people have been injured in an explosion in Minsk, Belarus' capital, during a concert celebrating Independence Day, police and witnesses said.
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Hamas says it has suspended negotiations on the release of Gilad Shalit, a captured Israeli soldier, because Israel was not respecting the terms of a truce with the group.
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At least 38 people have died after a ferry sank in Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta region, the country's state media has said.
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More than 200 Zimbabwean opposition supporters have sought refuge in the US embassy in Harare, the capital.
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Eight police officers have been killed in a gun and grenade attack on a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan, a police chief has said.
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India will soon sign a deal on a pipeline that will transport gas from Iran, India's oil minister has said.
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Asian stocks continue to fall, particularly reflected through the Japanese stock market where the longest losing streak in half a century reached the eleventh consecutive day.
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Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, has said that he wants to destroy the home of the driver who killed three Israelis after he rammed a bulldozer into their vehicles.
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Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has denied that comments he made over refining his Iraq policy meant he had altered his position on withdrawing US troops.
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Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand's former prime minister, has been banned from leaving the country.
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At least six pilgrims have been killed and 20 others injured in a stampede at a Hindu religious festival in eastern India, officials have said.
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The Israeli military has closed border crossings into the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the territory in defiance of an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire in effect since last month.
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