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The siege at Mumbai's Taj Mahal hotel is over after security forces killed the remaining armed men inside the building.
29/11/2008
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Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, has defended his country's military assault on breakaway South Ossetia in August, saying Russian forces had invaded Georgia and its citizens were in danger.
29/11/2008
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Indian commandos have ended the siege at a Jewish centre in Mumbai, while fighting raged at a hotel in the city two days after the Indian commercial capital came under co-ordinated attacks.
28/11/2008
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Tamil Tiger rebels are retreating from Kilinochchi, their political headquarters in northern Sri Lanka, a senior official has said.
26/11/2008
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An influential Malaysian royal has stepped into a controversy involving a religious edict by the country's top Islamic body banning Muslims from practising yoga, a form of exercise rooted in Hinduism.
25/11/2008
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The Sri Lankan military says it has overrun a strategically important Tamil Tiger defensive line in the north of the country.
20/11/2008
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Sri Lankan troops have captured two towns held by fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the country's defence ministry has said.
17/11/2008
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The Sri Lankan military has stepped up air attacks against Tamil Tiger separatists a day after defence officials said they had re-captured the key northern town of Pooneryn.
16/11/2008
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The Sri Lankan military says it has captured the strategically important northern town of Pooneryn from Tamil Tiger separtists.
15/11/2008
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A sailor has been charged for setting off the fire-extinguishing system on the Russian nuclear submarine Nerpa, causing 20 people to be gassed to death, investigators say.
13/11/2008
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Nir Barkat, a secularist venture capitalist, has been elected mayor of Jerusalem, Israeli media has reported.
12/11/2008
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A suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a packed sports stadium in the northwest of Pakistan, killing at least three people and wounding nine others, police said.
11/11/2008
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Serbian security forces hunting for Ratko Mladic, a Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive, have searched a factory in the southeast of the country, police officials reported.
10/11/2008
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A roadside blast in the southern Russian region of North Ossetia has killed at least 11 people on a minibus.
06/11/2008
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South Korean officials say newly-released photographs of Kim Jong-il give few clues as to the health of the North Korean leader.
03/11/2008
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