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The US House of Representatives has passed legislation that aims to help homeowners facing foreclosure and prevent troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac from collapsing.
24/07/2008
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Conditions for Palestinians living in Gaza have deteriorated to unprecedented levels, according to a report by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).
24/07/2008
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The United Nations Security Council is to convene a special session to try to prevent a border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia from escalating into a military conflict, diplomats have said.
24/07/2008
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The US has attempted to press North Korea into giving a preliminary commitment to complete a nuclear disarmament deal in its highest-level contact with Pyongyang in four years.
23/07/2008
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A US air force B-52 bomber has crashed off the island of Guam in the Pacific Ocean, the US coastguard has said.
21/07/2008
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US troops have shot dead the son and nephew of Hamid Hummud al-Shakti, the governor of Iraq's northern Salaheddin province.
21/07/2008
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A group that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago, has said one of its hostages committed suicide, London's Sunday Times reports.
20/07/2008
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The UN is to end aid flights to Myanmar at the beginning of August.
19/07/2008
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The United States and Iraq have agreed to seek "a general time horizon" for withdrawing American troops, according to the White House.
19/07/2008
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Alvaro Uribe, the Colombian president, has cancelled his plan to repeat the 2006 election in which he won, the government says.
19/07/2008
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The United States' senior military officer has said he will probably recommend withdrawing more US troops from Iraq if security there improves.
17/07/2008
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British military experts are to help Nigerian forces protect the country's oil installations, which are under attack from groups seeking a greater share in oil wealth for the local population.
17/07/2008
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Another UN-AU peacekeeper in Sudan's Darfur region has been killed even as the UN Security Council condemned the killing of seven peacekeepers in the same region last week.
17/07/2008
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An envoy from the US will attend weekend talks with Iran and other major powers over Tehran's nuclear programme.
16/07/2008
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The United States and Russia are holding military exercises on either side of the Caucasus mountains amid increasing tensions over the fate of two separatist regions in ex-Soviet Georgia.
16/07/2008
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