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Pakistan's president has refused to cancel a trip to Britain despite heightened diplomatic tensions between the two countries.
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Evacuation orders and alerts are in place for several parts of British Columbia in Canada, where more than 300 fires are raging through the province's interior.
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A North Korean mine that drifted along a river into the neighbouring South killed a man and badly injured another when it exploded, military officials said.
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A four-man team has smashed a 114-year-old record for rowing across the Atlantic.
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Israeli airstrikes in Gaza have killed senior Hamas commander Issa Batran and wounded 11 other people.
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Two men were being questioned Sunday after one parcel bomb was sent to Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence agency and another was intercepted.
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Bill and Hillary Clinton's daughter has married her long-time boyfriend in the picturesque New York village of Rhinebeck in what has been dubbed America's royal wedding.
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A computer hacker has demonstrated a technique to remotely make an ATM spit out cash using the internet.
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An 80-year-old French man is recovering in a state of shock in hospital after being freed from a year locked in a laundry room by a wife half his age and her alleged lover.
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The fossilised remains of a 37-million-year-old whale are stuck at Cairo airport because of a row over customs duties.
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July was the deadliest month in Iraq since May 2008 with a total of 535 people killed across the country as a result of violence, according to government figures released this weekend.
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Officials in Pakistan say the death toll from the flooding in the past week has risen to 800, while 150 others are still listed as missing.
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Colombian president Alvaro Uribe denies he plans to launch a military attack on neighbouring Venezuela, denouncing president Hugo Chavez after Caracas ordered troops to the border.
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Two more protesters have been killed in revolt-hit Indian Kashmir, bringing to six the number of young men shot dead by security forces in two days as fresh violence rocks the region.
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The death toll from floods sweeping through north-eastern China has risen to 37, according to state media, as authorities raced to intercept 12 heavy vessels hurtling down a major waterway.
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Investigators searching the site of an airliner crash near Pakistan's capital Islamabad in which 152 people died have found the plane's black box, a civil aviation official said.
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Bangladeshi police fired rubber bullets in a bid to subdue garment workers who rioted for a second day in protest against low pay as unrest spread to areas outside Dhaka, police said.
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Prosecutors say there is no evidence to back a woman's claims that she was assaulted by former United States vice president Al Gore.
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Thousands of people have paid their respects in the German city of Duisburg to the 21 people who died in the Love Parade tragedy.
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An earthquake in north-eastern Iran injured 274 people on Friday, and a slightly stronger tremor struck central Iran on Saturday, according to the semi-official ILNA news agency.
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Seventeen people have been killed in a coal mine blast in northern China, the government said, in the second major industrial accident to hit the country this week.
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Canadian fighter jets have scrambled to repel Russian bombers that intruded into Canadian airspace.
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The Chinese government is opening the doors to institutions which were once off-limits to the outside world - including the People's Liberation Army.
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Gay couples have rushed to tie the knot in Argentina two weeks after the country became the first in Latin America to grant them the same marriage rights as heterosexual couples.
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Israeli warplanes have fired missiles at several targets in the Gaza Strip, wounding eight people, after a rocket fired from the strip hit a southern Israeli city.
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