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Gates pushes for more Iran sanctions

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushes for more sanctions on Iran. Deborah Lutterbeck reports.

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Costa Rica’s first female president

Laura Chinchilla enters Costa Rica’s history books after a landslide presidential election victory.

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New moves in Thai industry row

Thailand’s government seeks court permission to re-start work on an industrial estate halted last year over health and environment fears.

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Iran to produce higher-enriched uranium

Iran outlines nuclear ambitions in letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency

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Afghan villagers flee ahead of planned NATO offensive

Move is being called one of the largest military efforts in the eight-year war

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Anti-whalers target Japan embassy

Activists from the environmental campaign group Greenpeace erect a life-sized whale fin replica opposite the Japanese embassy in Berlin.

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Man held in death of missing Ontario woman

Man arrested in connection with the disappearance and death of 27-year-old Jessica Lloyd, Ontario Provincial Police said Monday

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Shuttle Endeavour’s pre-dawn launch

NASA space shuttle Endeavour blasts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to deliver the remaining main components to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Clashes in Palestinian camp raid

Violence erupts as Israeli forces raid a Palestinian refugee camp in search of tax evaders.

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Forced marriage among South Africa’s Xhosa teens

In some parts of South Africa, girls as young as 14 are being abducted and forced to marry much older men, often with their parents’ consent. But the police are fighting back and have arrested several of the husbands and helped free a few of the girls.

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French navy flagship back in action

It’s been out of service since 2007 - now the flagship of France’s navy, the Charles de Gaulle, is set to come back into full service. The nuclear-powered ship, France’s only aircraft carrier, has been conducting retraining exercises in the Mediterranean, with pilots getting reacquainted with the catapult assisted take-off

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Mauritania’s capital caught between desert and sea

The Atlantic Ocean is advancing on Mauritania’s capital and experts warn much of Nouakchott could be underwater by 2020 — with only a thin natural barrier of sand dunes separating the west African city from destruction.

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More victims in Mexico’s drugs war

Gunmen thought to be involved in Mexico’s drugs war have carried out three separate attacks on Mexico’s police force, leaving one officer and four gunmen dead.

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Russian missile or UFO?

Norwegian space scientists have suggested a strange light seen over a military base in Norway may have been a failed Russian missile rather than a UFO.

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Paris policemen caught with hands in till

When two policemen walked into a telephone office in Paris and asked to conduct a routine inspection of the premises, the owners were happy to oblige. But while the staff were distracted in the back, CCTV cameras caught the police officers apparently helping themselves to piles of phone cards, straight from the drawers. The images, released by channel Europe 1, have been quickly circulated on the internet — while the officers have been suspended pending an inquiry.

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