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Taro Aso (L), George W Bush (centre) and Lee Myung-bak in Lima, Peru - 22/11/2008
Apec leaders make free-trade vow
Leaders from Asia-Pacific nations meeting in Peru pledge not to raise trade barriers in the face of the worldwide financial crisis.
Latin America's China connection
China 'can be engine of growth'
World trade blocs: Apec

Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Graca Machel Zimbabwe denies bar on Annan team
Zimbabwe denies refusing entry to a team led by former UN chief Kofi Annan and ex-US president Jimmy Carter.

Mario Ferreyra on Cronica TV Argentine man kills himself on TV
A former police chief in Argentina, wanted for alleged crimes against human rights, shoots himself dead live on television.


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Rosemary Alvarez Worm removed from woman's brain

US justice boss faints at podium
Sitar event India's night of a thousand sitars

Longest board surfing record

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
Ngarambe Rukambika Healing wounds
Treating victims of DR Congo violence

President Hugo Chavez addresses a rally on 18 NOvember Thinking local
Chavez pulls out all the stops for Venezuela elections
2010 World Cup logo World Cup wobble
Will South Africa's 2010 World Cup be hit by a downturn?

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AFRICA
DR Congo rebel rallies support
AMERICAS
Bush issues Apec free trade call
ASIA-PACIFIC
Tibetans back Dalai Lama on China

EUROPE
Royal demands French vote re-run
MIDDLE EAST
'Israel spy' put to death in Iran
SOUTH ASIA
India 'to step up piracy battle'

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ENTERTAINMENT
Madonna and Ritchie granted divorce
TECHNOLOGY
IBM to build brain-like computers


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Making the space station just a bit more like home

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THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY
Barack Obama Obama seeks to create 2.5m jobs


US shares up on 'Treasury choice'
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