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Russia has rejected a draft UN resolution demanding it immediately pull out of Georgia as President Demitry Medvedev again delayed the withdrawal.

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Bosnian Serb leader will be asked to enter a plea on genocide charges.

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The United Nations has admitted that £5 million of aid intended for Burmese
cyclone survivors has been skimmed off by banks.

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Millions of Africans are again facing looming famine, prompting yet another international call for food aid less than two years after the last appeal.

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A demand by China that the Zimbabwean government “behave” in the run-up to the Olympics lies behind Robert Mugabe’s surprise decision to open negotiations with the opposition.

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Cambodia has appealed for the United Nations Security Council to diffuse an “imminent state of war” on its border with Thailand.

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A 2500 year old Persian treasure dubbed the world’s ‘first bill of human rights’ has been branded a piece of shameless ‘propaganda’ by German historians.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has vowed to counter American plans to build a missile defence shield in eastern Europe, saying Washington’s plan “only worsens” regional security.

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The International Criminal Court is to seek the arrest of senior Sudanese
officials - possibly even the president - on Monday as a new war crimes case
is opened on Darfur.

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Gordon Brown has vowed to punish the “criminal cabal” running
Zimbabwe when Britain and America urged the United Nations to impose a
global travel ban on President Robert Mugabe and 13 allies.

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