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Several Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip have denied Hamas claims that an agreement has been brokered among them to stop firing rockets across the border into Israel.
23/11/2009
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Scientists have warned that global temperatures could rise by six degrees Celsius by the end of the century, four degrees higher than previously predicted and at a level that could wipe out species and cause widespread natural disasters.
18/11/2009
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A man who stabbed a pregnant Egyptian woman to death in a German courtroom in front of her husband and three-year-old son has been sentenced to the maximum penalty of life in jail.
11/11/2009
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Georgia has said that Russian forces have detained five of its citizens off the Black Sea coast near the breakaway Russian-backed region of Abkhazia.
11/11/2009
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Robert Enke, the Hannover and Germany goalkeeper, killed himself by apparently intentionally getting hit by a train. He was 32.
11/11/2009
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G20 states have agreed to maintain the availability of financial stimulus measures until the world economy shows more improvement.
08/11/2009
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Thousands of Opel car workers in Germany have downed tools to show their anger at the decision by General Motors, the US carmaker which owns the unit, to abandon a plan to sell the operation to Magna, a Canadian group.
05/11/2009
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German politicians and unions have expressed anger at the decision by General Motors, the US carmaker, not to sell Opel, its European unit, after months of painstaking talks.
04/11/2009
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An 88-year-old former member of the Waffen SS has gone on trial in Germany over the second world war killings of three civilians in The Netherlands.
28/10/2009
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A man accused of killing a pregnant Egyptian woman in court in an attack is to go on trial in Germany.
26/10/2009
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A group of bands including REM and Pearl Jam have said they are to file a lawsuit aimed at accessing US documents on the use of music during interrogations of terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.
23/10/2009
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Richard Goldstone, the jurist who authored a UN report accusing Israel of war crimes and crimes against humanity during its war on Gaza, has challenged the US to justify its claims that his findings are flawed and biased.
22/10/2009
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A Paris prosecutor has called for Dominique de Villepin, the former French prime minister, to be given an 18-month suspended sentence, saying he was guilty of conspiring to smear Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president.
21/10/2009
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Guinea's military leadership has pledged to co-operate with a United Nations inquiry into last month's deadly crackdown on opposition demonstrators, a UN official has said.
20/10/2009
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West African leaders have announced an arms embargo on Guinea after the shooting of scores of opposition supporters last month.
18/10/2009
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