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Woman and baby at aid centre in Goma
Regional DR Congo talks planned
The Rwandan and Congolese presidents agree to attend a summit aimed at ending conflict in DR Congo, the EU says.
Crisis bites for Goma refugees
Eyewitness: 'Fear in Goma'
Rwanda ghosts stalk DRC

People visit the Lockerbie Garden of Remembrance (image from May 2000) Libya compensates terror victims
Libya pays $1.5bn into a US compensation fund for victims of terror attacks blamed on Tripoli in the 1980s.

Studs Terkel, file pic from 2004 Pulitzer winner Terkel dies at 96
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, famous for oral history, dies peacefully at the age of 96.


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Model wearing chocolate Chocolate togs and a punching PM: Odd Box

Hit Polish drama set in London

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
A tank fires at militant movement detected at the edge of Loesam Pakistan frontline
The rarely seen side of the war against the Taleban
Chinese woman in Beijing Contamination
Chinese discuss melamine worries

An Assyrian makes wine in Turkey In pictures
Trying to keep wine-making alive in Muslim Turkey

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AFRICA
Austrian hostages freed in Mali
AMERICAS
Obama pushes for McCain territory
ASIA-PACIFIC
Chinese melamine scandal widens

EUROPE
Soldier to run restive Ingushetia
MIDDLE EAST
Olmert 'wants more Syria talks'
SOUTH ASIA
Pakistan 'child wedding' halted

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ENTERTAINMENT
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TECHNOLOGY
Trojan virus steals banking info


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How did an Italian thief get his mitts on the diamonds?
Tempelhof's last night Auf Wiedersehen
Historic Berlin airport shuts after 85 years of service
Women mourn the death of loved ones outside the Guwahati Medical College hospital Black day
Pain and suffering after bomb blasts in Assam

FULL ELECTION COVERAGE
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