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US-led coalition and Afghan forces have killed more than 100 Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand during three days of fighting, the US military has said in a statement.
29/08/2008
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Barack Obama has accepted the Democratic presidential nomination, promising to end what he calls the "broken politics of Washington" if elected US president.
29/08/2008
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Joseph Biden has accepted the US Democratic party's vice-presidential nomination, just hours after Barack Obama's selection as presidential candidate was approved at the party's convention in Denver.
28/08/2008
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Leaders in the European Union are considering imposing sanctions against Russia, Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has said.
28/08/2008
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Thousands of anti-government protesters in Thailand's capital have defied a court order to end their siege of the prime minister's office compound, saying they had a right to be there until government leaders step down.
28/08/2008
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Police say a bomb blast in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least 11 people, including nine police officers.
28/08/2008
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Brazil's supreme court has delayed a ruling over the future of a tribal reserve on the country's northern border until later in the year.
28/08/2008
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Three men who slipped across the border from Pakistan into Indian Kashmir disguised as policemen have been killed by security forces after holding nine people hostage in a house in the Hindu-majority region of Jammu, police said.
28/08/2008
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Russia has sent a missile cruiser and two other ships to a Georgian port, while a US military ship has docked at another southern port in a show of force amid an escalating standoff with the West over a nation devastated by war with Russia.
28/08/2008
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Hillary Clinton has called on US Democrats to unite behind Barack Obama as the party's presidential nominee, saying that despite a bruising primary battle, they were on the "same team".
27/08/2008
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Riot police in Thailand have surrounded Bangkok's Government House, where thousands of protesters are camped out after storming the compound to demand Samak Sundaravej, the prime minister, step down.
27/08/2008
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Pakistani security forces have killed more than 40 fighters, including some foreigners in the country's northwest, near the border with Afghanistan, military officials said.
27/08/2008
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Western condemnation has continued to mount over Russia's support for independence in Georgia's two breakaway republics, Abhkazia and South Ossetia.
27/08/2008
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The US has said that North Korea has pushed international disarmament efforts a "step backward" in violating its commitment by suspending disablement work on its nuclear reactor.
27/08/2008
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Malaysia's opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, is set to be sworn in as a member of parliament two days after a landslide by-election win marked his return to mainstream politics.
27/08/2008
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