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A SENIOR ruling party MP yesterday announced he would challenge Japan’s prime minister for the top job in an internal party election next month.

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AS THE rains fell day after day it became soon became clear that these were no ordinary monsoons. The death toll started at 100, but officials in those first days were clear t

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Cambodia is building a small park to accommodate demonstrators, but would-be protesters claim it is a means to kill off dissent by keeping them from government offices.

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A SRI Lankan maid returned from her job in Saudi Arabia with 24 nails in her body — the result of torture by the family who employed her, a doctor and government officials hav

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A BOMB in southern Italy has damaged the home of a magistrate investigating the ‘ndrangheta crime syndicate.

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Mexican troops fanned out in the remote countryside near the Texas border yesterday as they hunted the perpetrators of the worst massacre in the country’s escalating drug

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THE Pakistan Taleban is planning attacks against foreigners delivering emergency aid in the aftermath of devastating floods, according to an American defence official.

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A HISTORIAN has gifted surgical instruments found at Auschwitz shortly after the end of the Second World War to the museum at the site of the death camp in Poland.

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The Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans was hit particularly hard during Hurricane Katrina. The BBC’s Andy Gallacher met with some of those still struggling to recover their community.

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Mario Santos likely never made it to the United States.

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