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Tzipi Livni, the Israeli foreign minister, has called on Ehud Olmert, the acting prime minister, to stand down immediately due to corruption charges.
27/11/2008
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Six months on from the devastating earthquake in China's southwestern Sichuan province, survivors facing the onset of winter say they still have not received the compensation they were promised.
11/11/2008
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A closed court in military-ruled Myanmar has sentenced at least 11 dissidents involved in last year's pro-democracy protests to 65 years each in prison, an opposition spokesman has said.
11/11/2008
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A senior criminal lawyer has been appointed to oversee Mexico's escalating war against power drug cartels following the death of Juan Camilo Mourino, the interior minister, in an airplane crash last week.
11/11/2008
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Libya has paid $1.5bn into a fund that will compensate US victims of attacks it carried out in the 1980s, in a move expected to establish full diplomatic and economic ties between Washington and Tripoli.
01/11/2008
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Tzipi Livni, the leader of Israel's ruling Kadima party, has said she will recommend holding early parliamentary elections, following her faliure to form a coalition government.
26/10/2008
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Polling stations have opened in Lithuania for the second and final round of voting to elect a new parliament.
26/10/2008
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Prosecutors in Thailand say they will seek the extradition from the UK of Thaksin Shinawatra, the former Thai prime minister, following his sentencing to two years in jail for corruption.
23/10/2008
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Three Tamil Tiger suicide boats have attacked merchant ships off Sri Lanka's northern coast, as the government continues its military offensive.
22/10/2008
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