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Thousand of people have been forced to evacuate as artillery shells and other ammunition exploded after a forest blaze swept into a munitions storage site in Ukraine.
29/08/2008
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Joseph Biden has accepted the US Democratic party's vice-presidential nomination, just hours after Barack Obama's selection as presidential candidate was approved at the party's convention in Denver.
28/08/2008
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Brazil's supreme court has delayed a ruling over the future of a tribal reserve on the country's northern border until later in the year.
28/08/2008
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Germany's Bundesliga is likely to overtake Italy's Serie A as the second richest European football league this season, according to a study by the StageUp sport business research firm.
27/08/2008
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At least 20 people have been injured in a bomb blast at a pro-autonomy rally in Pakistan's Baluchistan province, police say.
26/08/2008
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China unveiled an extravagant farewell to the Olympics and David Beckham, the world's most famous footballer, said hello by kicking a ball to start the countdown to London 2012.
25/08/2008
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An explosion has ripped through a fuel train outside the Georgian town of Gori severing a vital trade route between the east of the country and Black Sea ports in the west.
24/08/2008
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Two vessels carrying 46 international human rights activists have reached the Gaza Strip, despite Israel's strict 14-month siege of the Palestinian territory.
24/08/2008
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Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele outsprinted his rivals with a stunning last lap to win the 5,000 metres and become the first man to complete the Olympic long-distance double since 1980.
24/08/2008
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Barack Obama, the Democratic candidate for the US presidency, has chosen Joe Biden, a senator from the state of Delaware, as his vice-presidential running mate, according to his website.
23/08/2008
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Gordon Brown, the British prime minister, has said he believes the Afghanistan army will have to more than double in size if it is to overcome the Taliban.
22/08/2008
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Two suicide bombers have killed almost 40 people at an arms factory near Islamabad, the Pakistani capital, according to police and Pakistani media reports.
21/08/2008
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The second sample from Ukraine's Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Lyudmila Blonska, who has been provisionally suspended from the Beijing Games, has tested positive for steroids.
21/08/2008
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A suicide blast outside the emergency ward of a hospital crowded with Shia Muslim mourners in Pakistan's volatile northwest has left at least 27 people dead.
20/08/2008
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Egypt's upper house of parliament is facing collapse after being engulfed by fire, injuring at least six people.
20/08/2008
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