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The untouchable aura has faded but the results are coming in all the same for Roger Federer, who held off 130th-ranked Gilles Muller at the US Open to reach a Grand Slam semi-final for an 18th consecutive time.
05/09/2008
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British and Russian shareholders have announced an end to a months-long feud for control of TNK-BP, the joint oil venture.
04/09/2008
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Seventeen people are feared to have died in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo after a small aircraft carrying United Nations employees and other aid workers went missing, the flight contractor said.
03/09/2008
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At least 15 people have been killed in northwestern Pakistan in a raid involving helicopters used by international troops in Afghanistan, security officials said.
03/09/2008
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US Democrats have opened their national convention, with speakers focusing on a theme of unity, as Barack Obama seeks the party's presidential nomination for November elections.
26/08/2008
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The US Democratic national convention is set to kick-off on Monday in Denver, Colorado, where Barack Obama and his newly chosen vice-president pick, Joe Biden, are expected to formally accept their party's nomination for the White House.
25/08/2008
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At least 10 people have been killed and four injured in an aeroplane crash in in eastern Guatemala.
25/08/2008
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A man has killed 19 people in Burundi after hurling a grenade into his brother's wedding party.
25/08/2008
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At least 11 people have been killed in two car bomb attacks in Algeria, local radio has reported.
20/08/2008
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Five people are reported to have been killed and at least 17 people wounded after Ethiopian forces fired mortar shells close to Mogadishu's main market, witnesses said.
20/08/2008
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A bomb blast outside the emergency gate of a hospital in Pakistan's volatile northwest has killed at least 23 people and wounded 15 others.
19/08/2008
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Sudan has sentenced eight Darfur fighters, including a senior member of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), to death for their involvement in an attack on Khartoum, Sudan's capital.
18/08/2008
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Ethiopia's world champion Tirunesh Dibaba ran the second fastest 10,000 metres of all time to win the first track gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.
16/08/2008
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An international aid group has suspended its operations in Afghanistan after three of its female workers and their Afghan driver were killed in an ambush claimed by the Taliban.
14/08/2008
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The Dalai Lama has offered blessings at a Buddhist institute in France, where he is spending most of the duration of the Beijing Olympics in an attempt to avoid controversy over Tibet.
13/08/2008
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