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Shivraj Patil, the Indian home minister, has resigned over the terror attacks in Mumbai that left around 174 people dead.
30/11/2008
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An Iranian electronics salesman accused of passing information about the country's atomic energy programme to the Israelis has been hanged, a spokesman for the judiciary has said.
23/11/2008
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Iran has picked an ally of the country's president to be the next interior minister.
18/11/2008
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An Iranian diplomat has been kidnapped by armed men in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, police have said.
13/11/2008
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Iran has said it test-fired a new generation of surface-to-surface missile that has a range of close to 2,000km, similar to the existing Shahab-3.
12/11/2008
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Thousands of people have gathered for the funerals of three Indonesian men that were executed for their role in a deadly bombing on the island of Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people.
09/11/2008
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Iran's parliament has voted to dismiss Ali Kordan, the country's interior minister, for allegedly lying about his credentials and presenting a fake degree from Britain's Oxford University.
04/11/2008
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Thousands of Iranians have rallied outside the US embassy in Tehran to mark the 29th anniversary of the compound's seizure during the Islamic revolution in 1979.
03/11/2008
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Manmohan Singh, the Indian prime minister, has visited bomb sites and survivors of serial blasts which killed 77 people in the country's northeast.
02/11/2008
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Police have tightened security across Indonesia as it prepares to execute three men convicted of carrying out bombings on the island of Bali in 2002, which killed 202 people.
01/11/2008
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Indian police have detained around 12 people suspected of having links to the series of explosions across Assam state that left 76 dead and hundreds injured.
31/10/2008
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Shimon Peres, the Israeli president, has told parliament that after consulting with all of the country's political parties there is no choice but to hold elections.
28/10/2008
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Thousands of high school and university students have been protesting in the Italian capital against the government's plan to cut jobs and funding for the education system.
28/10/2008
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The leaders of Israel's ultra-orthodox Shas party have rejected conditions set by Tzipi Livni, the foreign minister who is seeking to cobble together a coalition government.
24/10/2008
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A European court has annulled a European Union (EU) decision to freeze the assets of an exiled Iranian opposition group.
24/10/2008
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