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Taiwan has condemned a new Chinese law giving Beijing the legal right to use force against the island if it moves towards declaring formal independence.

Tre norske langfilmer laget av såkalte minoritetsregissører får premiere i løpet av året.

People across Spain are marking the first anniversary of the Madrid train bombings where 191 were killed.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has said the car carrying an Italian agent killed by US fire had stopped as soon as it was signalled.

$8bn is needed to reconstruct the country in the next two years claim Sudan's governemnt and former rebels.

Insurgents have killed at least 25 Iraqis in attacks in towns north of Baghdad, reports say.

Moldova's governing pro-Western Communist Party has won parliamentary elections with a reduced majority.

Syrian troops will withdraw to the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon by the end of March, the two countries' presidents have agreed at a summit.

An Indonesian court has found the radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir guilty of conspiracy over the 2002 Bali bombings, in which 202 people died.

The US Supreme Court has abolished the death penalty for those who commit murder when under the age of 18.