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Pakistan's military has launched a major offensive in the northwest Khyber agency, imposing a 24-hour curfew and a shoot-to-kill policy.
24/11/2009
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At least 21 people who were among a group of more than 40 people abducted in the southern Philippines have been killed.
23/11/2009
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At least seven Palestinians have been injured in a round of Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip, Palestinian witnesses say.
22/11/2009
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The Israeli president has held discussions in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart in an effort to restart Middle East peace talks.
22/11/2009
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Police in Peru say they have broken up a gang that allegedly killed dozens of people and sold fat from the corpses to buyers in Europe who used it to make cosmetics.
20/11/2009
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Under the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union will soon appoint a president of the council of EU leaders to represent the bloc in the world and chair EU summits.
19/11/2009
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Corruption and poverty are fuelling the war in Afghanistan, a survey by British charity Oxfam and local organisations released a day before Hamid Karzai's inauguration for a second presidential term has said.
18/11/2009
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Pakistani troops have cleared Taliban fighters from most towns in a district close to the border with Afghanistan, the army has said.
18/11/2009
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A Virgin Islands-owned chemical tanker carrying 28 North Korean crew members has been hijacked by Somali pirates off the Seychelles, the multinational naval force operating in the area has said.
17/11/2009
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Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, has warned the Palestinian leadership against any attempts to unilaterally declare statehood for the Gaza Strip, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
16/11/2009
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Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, or "water pirates" as Israeli occupation forces prefer to call them, are siphoning off drinking water pipes in an effort to secure water to irrigate their farmland.
14/11/2009
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The Taliban has recovered from being forced from power in Afghanistan to the extent that it is now ahead of the Nato-led forces fighting them, the commander of US Central Command has said.
13/11/2009
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The majority of the world's 26 million displaced people were often neglected because they found refuge with local communities instead of in camps, the International Committee of the Red Cross has said.
12/11/2009
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The Palestinian Election Commission has recommended the postponement of presidential and parliamentary polls scheduled for January.
12/11/2009
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Thousands of Palestinians are marking five years since the death of Yasser Arafat, their iconic leader who led them for nearly four decades, pushing the struggle for an independent homeland onto the world stage.
11/11/2009
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