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Two blasts occurred near Baghdad's Green Zone outside Iraq's foreign ministry, as John Negroponte, the US deputy secretary of state, was preparing to hold a news conference about his visit to Iraq.
08/10/2008
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A US aircraft unintentionally violated Iranian airspace and was forced to land in Iran, an Iranian news agency says.
07/10/2008
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India's Tata Group has found a new home for its project to build the world's cheapest car after violent protests forced it to abandon its factory in West Bengal.
07/10/2008
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Indonesia's president has called an emergency meeting on measures to to tackle the impact of the global credit crisis amid growing investor nerves and fears of surging unemployment.
06/10/2008
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India's Tata Motors says it has abandoned plans to build the world's cheapest car in the eastern state of West Bengal after weeks of demonstrations triggered by a land dispute.
04/10/2008
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Iraq's three-member presidency council has approved a long-delayed provincial election law, a government official has said.
03/10/2008
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Iran has accused the US of perpetuating a "huge lie" about its nuclear ambitions.
03/10/2008
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Stock markets in Asia have opened lower as investors await a second vote in the US House of Representatives on the government's $700bn plan to bail out the financial sector.
03/10/2008
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The Iraqi government is to take responsibility for paying members of the country's Awakening councils, Sunni groups who had allied with US forces to fight al-Qaeda.
01/10/2008
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A man has been arrested in connection with a series of bomb attacks in India in which more than 80 people died, police have said.
29/09/2008
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A woman regarded as Afghanistan's most prominent female police officer has been shot dead in the southern city of Kandahar, a government official has said.
28/09/2008
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Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former Iranian president, has warned the West that its support for Israel will backfire.
27/09/2008
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The Israeli president has accused Iran of being at the centre of violence and fanaticism, warning that Tehran continued to develop enriched uranium and long range missiles.
25/09/2008
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Iraq's parliament has passed a law allowing provincial elections to go ahead after months of wrangling over how the poll should be conducted and the future of the northern city of Kirkuk, according to MPs.
24/09/2008
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Alitalia, Italy's national airline, has published a final appeal on its website for investors to take over the near-bankrupt carrier.
23/09/2008
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