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Ahmad Chalabi, Iraq's former deputy prime minister, has escaped a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy in the capital Baghdad, an official in his office has said.
06/09/2008
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Stephen Harper, Canada's prime minister, is set to call an election for October 14, a government spokesman has said.
06/09/2008
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A huge expanse of ancient ice shelf in Canada's northern Arctic has broken away in a dramatic indication of how warmer temperatures are changing the polar frontier, scientists have said.
05/09/2008
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A government-appointed panel in China has blamed poor construction for the collapse of hundreds of schools during the devastating Sichuan earthquake in May.
05/09/2008
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Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, has arrived in Kiev, as a row between pro-Western political forces in Ukraine threatened to bring down the the ex-Soviet republic's government.
05/09/2008
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Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, says his country will stand by Georgia against its rival Russia, saying Moscow's military push into the former Soviet state was an "illegitimate" act which cast doubt on Russian reliability.
04/09/2008
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Dick Cheney, the United States vice president, has said during a visit to Azerbaijan that his country has a strong interest in the security of its allies in the region.
04/09/2008
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Talks on the reunification of Cyprus have begun between Demetris Christofias, the Greek Cypriot president, and Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish Cypriot leader.
04/09/2008
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Alan Curbishley has become the first English Premier League manager to leave his job this season after resigning as West Ham manager.
04/09/2008
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At least 15 people have been killed in a village along the border of Pakistan, in an attack by US-led coalition forces based in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said.
03/09/2008
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2008 Champions League holders Manchester United will face familiar foes Celtic in this season's Champions League group stage.
29/08/2008
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Iraq and China have agreed the terms of a $3 billion oil service contract, Iraq's oil minister says, announcing the first major oil contract with a foreign firm since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
28/08/2008
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Hillary Clinton has called on US Democrats to unite behind Barack Obama as the party's presidential nominee, saying that despite a bruising primary battle, they were on the "same team".
27/08/2008
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Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's president, has sacked an army general and a major after at least 89 people were reported to have been killed in an Afghan military operation, supported by US air raids.
24/08/2008
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Thousands of security forces enforced an indefinite curfew in Srinagar city ahead of a separatist rally against Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan region.
24/08/2008
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