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Asia stock markets have remained volatile despite a co-ordinated move by central banks across the world to cut interest rates in an attempt to stave off an economic meltdown.
09/10/2008
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A US judge has ordered the release of 17 Chinese Muslim detainees from the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in what has been seen as a rebuke to the Bush administration.
08/10/2008
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With his eyes on a widely-expected snap election, Japan's new prime minister has gone on the offensive against the opposition, hoping to shore up his days-old government following the weekend's embarrassing resignation of his transport minister.
29/09/2008
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A Palestinian shepherd has been shot dead by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian security and government officials.
28/09/2008
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Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic party has chosen Taro Aso, a former foreign minister, as its new leader.
22/09/2008
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Top seed Jelena Jankovic blazed into the quarter-finals of the Pan Pacific Open with a crushing 6-2 6-1 victory over Italian Flavia Pennetta.
18/09/2008
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Japan says it is planning to withdraw the last of its troops deployed in Iraq by the end of the year.
11/09/2008
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Japan has begun searching for a new prime minister after Yasuo Fukuda became the second leader to abruptly resign in less than a year.
02/09/2008
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Four Jordanian nationals who were convicted of killing Israeli soldiers, but transferred last year to serve their prison sentence in Jordan, have been freed.
20/08/2008
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