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A bloc of communist-led parties will end support for India's coalition government in protest against a nuclear energy deal with the US, party leaders have announced.
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Pakistan is not behind the suicide car-bombing that targeted the Indian embassy in Kabul on Monday, killing 41 people, including two senior Indian diplomats, Yousaf Raza Gillani, the country's prime minister, has said.
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Somalia's Muslim youth movement vows to keep fighting Ethiopian troops
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The fatal shooting of the UN development chief in Somalia was a deliberate act, according to officials.
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Dmitry Medvedev has met with several leaders during the Group of Eight (G8) economic powers summit in Japan, his first global forum since taking over as Russia's president.
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Israel has agreed to an unusual request from Egypt to reopen border crossings with Gaza, officials say..
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Many killed in Kabul suicide blast.
At least 40 people, including Indian diplomats, have been killed and more than 100 others wounded in Afghanistan's capital after an attack on the Indian embassy, offficials say..
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Israeli troops have raided the West Bank town of Nablus, shutting down three facilities of a Hamas-affiliated charity and a medical centre, Palestinians say.
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The head of the United Nations development programme in Somalia has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu.
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The annual summit of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialised nations has begun in Japan with the issue of aid for Africa taking centre-stage on the first day.
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Fidel Castro has called on Columbia's Farc rebels to release its remaining hostages.
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Leaders of some of the world's richest countries are heading to Japan for their annual meeting.
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Tens of thousands of people have demonstrated in South Korea's capital against the government's decision to import US beef.
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Thabo Mbeki, the South African president, has met Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, and representatives from a breakaway faction of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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A 41-year-old Berliner was arrested after wax figure of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler was beheaded shortly after a new branch of Madame Tussauds opened in Berlin, police said.
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Troops from northern and southern Sudan are pulling out from the disputed oil-rich region of Abyei.
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At least 15 people, including a woman and a child, have been killed in a US air raid in eastern Afghanistan, a provincial governor has said
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Last-minute disagreements between various political groups could hold up the announcement of the formation of a new Lebanese cabinet, sources say.
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Iran says it is ready to negotiate with world powers over its nuclear programme but will not suspend its controversial uranium enrichment work.
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Poland has said a US offer to boost its air defences in return for basing anti-missile interceptors on its soil is insufficient, but that it remained open to talks with Washington.
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Video footage which appears to show ballot-rigging taking place in Zimbabwe's recent presidential run-off election has been posted on the website of a British newspaper.
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China and Taiwan have resumed regular direct flights between the two sides for the first time in nearly 60 years
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Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez advises Washington to stop making threats against Iran and Venezuela in hopes of seeing lower oil prices.
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The Israeli military has closed border crossings into the Gaza Strip after a rocket was fired from the territory in defiance of an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire in effect since last month.
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Barack Obama, the US Democratic presidential candidate, has denied that comments he made over refining his Iraq policy meant he had altered his position on withdrawing US troops.
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Pakistan's Foreign Office Spokesman, Muhammad Sadiq
Pakistan says that the US-led forces have no authority to take a military action inside the country in the name of so-called war on terror.
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The death toll from fighting between Somali anti-government fighters and Ethiopian and Ugandan forces, has risen to 53 people, according to a human rights organisation.
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Ingrid Betancourt, the French-Colombian politician held hostage by Farc rebels for more than six years, has thanked the Colombian army for rescuing her.
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Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, has announced his group's agreement to a prisoner exchange deal with Israel.
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Chad's security forces have claimed to have killed more than 60 people loyal to a Muslim spiritual leader in clashes in the town of Kouno, around 300km south east of the capital Ndjamena.
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