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Prime Minister Gordon Brown is expected to make housing, education and health his priorities when he outlines his agenda to MPs later. |
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A mortar and rocket attack on Baghdad's heavily-protected Green Zone has killed three people, Iraqi police said. |
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Thousands of Indonesians have been evacuated from the slopes of a volcano that is spewing out hot ash and smoke in the east of the country. |
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A junior coalition partner has said it will remain in Poland's conservative government, defusing what had appeared to be an escalating crisis. |
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A US judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Colombian rebel leader Ricardo Palmera, after a jury could not agree on a verdict. |
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US President George W Bush has said he understands how difficult the Iraq war is on the US, but that Congress must give his surge plan more time to work. |
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A UN nuclear team plans to arrive in North Korea on Saturday to monitor the shutdown of Pyongyang's nuclear reactor, the UN nuclear watchdog says. |
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Eight Philippine marines have been killed, four of them beheaded, by rebels in the south of the country, the army says. |
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The Federal Security Service (FSB) said Vyachaslav Zharko was recruited by agents from Britain's MI6 foreign intelligence service. |
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Rifleman Vakabua, a Fijian national from Suva serving in Mortar Platoon attached to 7 Platoon, B Company, died at the Basra Palace base. |
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Former navy chief Admiral Sir Alan West told the Sunday Telegraph the UK faced a "disparate core" of "racist" people, often based abroad, who wanted power. |
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Mr Abe, who has admitted his ruling coalition faces an uphill battle ahead of upper house elections this month, said Mr Akagi had done nothing wrong. |
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Rescuers are still searching for survivors of the attack, which officials now say killed 130 people and injured 240 others, many seriously. |
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Mr Sarkozy told French media he objected to using his powers of pardon as a way to relieve overcrowded jails. |
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Prime Minister John Howard insisted oil had nothing to do with Australia's involvement in the Iraq war, contradicting his defense minister who said Thursday that protecting Iraq's oil supplies is one of his country's motivations for keeping troops there. |
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