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A suicide attacker has killed at least 12 people at a tribal council meeting in a government building in Karma, a town near Falluja, Iraqi police said.
More than a dozen people were wounded in the blast, police added.
Karma is in the mainly Sunni Mu..
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The US Supreme Court is expected to deliver a ruling shortly that could have a far-reaching effect on gun control laws in the United States.
The nine justices have been considering whether a 32-year-old ban on handguns in Washington DC is unconstitutio..
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North Korea has handed over a long-awaited account of its nuclear programme to China, diplomats said.
The declaration, which is six months overdue, is expected to detail North Korea's plutonium enrichment efforts.
But analysts say it is not expected..
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The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition party has been granted bail, a day before a controversial presidential poll run-off.
Tendai Biti, of the Movement for Democratic Change, was held earlier this month on treason charges, which his party says..
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Nepal's interim Prime Minister, Girija Prasad Koirala, has announced that he has resigned.
Correspondents say the move paves the way for the former rebel leader, Prachanda, who heads the Maoist party, to succeed Mr Koirala.
The Maoists emerged as the..
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Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour.
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A book about global warming has won this year's Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales...
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The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations.
The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget...
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Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled.
The high resolution RALCam3 camera, designed and built by UK scientists, will provide the first detailed view of the..
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too commercial in character.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) found that a quarter of last year's catch was traded for..
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A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.
The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of M..
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The Mississippi river has burst through one levee in the US state of Illinois and threatens to break many more throughout the American Midwest.
Three feet of water flooded the area near the town of Gulfport, closing a bridge and cutting commuters off...
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Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said.
Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006.
Russia's Investigative Committ..
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The head of an African observer mission in Zimbabwe has warned that he will not endorse next week's run-off if current levels of violence continue.
Marwick Khumalo told the BBC his team had received horrendous reports of attacks and the political envir..
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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Nato and Afghan forces have launched an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships are patrolling west of the Arghandab river, a Nato statement said.
There have bee..
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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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A US government aid agency has formed an alliance with a group headed by former UN chief Kofi Annan to try to boost African agriculture.
Mr Annan has called for a "green revolution" to solve the food crisis.
The new partnership aims to invest in Afr..
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Progress towards developing a global strategy to cut emissions is too slow, according to environmental group WWF.
It issued its warning at the end of key UN talks that considered what measures should replace the current set of climate targets, which ex..
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The US has called on the world's eight most industrialised nations to invest in a $10bn (�5bn) climate change fund.
The Climate Investment Funds, run by the World Bank, aims to help developing nations produce their own technology to mitigate the impa..
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