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Five days after the earthquake in China, which devastated large swathes of Sichuan province, President Hu Jintao says rescuers and emergency teams will not give up hope of finding more survivors alive.
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The United States intends to build a big new prison at its main military base in Afghanistan, a shift from earlier aims to transfer most detainees to Afghan custody, The New York Times reported.
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A strong aftershock near the epicentre of China's devastating earthquake has triggered landslides that cut off roads and buried vehicles on Friday (local time), state media is reporting.
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Indonesia's police, armed forces and intelligence services routinely torture and degrade criminal suspects to extract confessions, with almost total impunity for those responsible, a United Nations rights body says.
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Humanitarian agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says police in Kenya are using force and intimidation to make people displaced by post-election violence return home.
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Suspected drug hitmen dumped the head of a murdered man on top of a car in a street in a rare outrage in the wealthy Mexican city of Monterrey, police say.
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United States Democrat Barack Obama has launched a blistering attack on President George W Bush and Republican White House pick John McCain, accusing them of hypocrisy and fear-mongering in an intense campaign row over foreign policy.
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Saudi Arabia has rejected United States President George W Bush's request for it to pump more oil.
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Zimbabwe has summoned United States ambassador James McGee for what the Foreign Minister says is a "first warning" after the diplomat visited victims of spiralling post-election violence in hospital.
