Julian Assange loses appeal, now he faces extradition to Sweden

30 May 12 | Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has lost his final appeal in a British court and faces extradition to Sweden where he is accused of rape and sexual assault.

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Bangkok's pop-star welcome for Aung San Suy Kyi

30 May 12 | Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suy Kyi was jostled and pushed by excited well-wishers outside the Thai capital today.

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10 die in Italy quake

30 May 12 | Many are still missing under rubble after a 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck northern Italy.

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Friends suspected Breivik was depressed about being gay

30 May 12 | THE Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's closest friends worried that he had fallen into a deep depression or was gay and unable to accept it when he cut off all social relations and moved in with his mother, a court in Oslo heard yesterday.

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At least 15 killed as Italy rocked by second earthquake in 10 days

30 May 12 | FIFTEEN people were reported dead and others were missing in rubble following a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in northern Italy last night, just 10 days after a similar quake killed seven and left thousands homeless.

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Confusion rules as two prime ministers traded for none

30 May 12 | The bar keeps getting higher for Papua New Guinnea's political conspiracy theorists.

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Mother of two helped with Bali cocaine sting to get a lighter sentence

29 May 12 | The 55-year-old British mother of two at the centre of a cocaine smuggling operation in Bali helped police to catch her co-accused to try to win a lighter sentence for herself.

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'I did it for my children': mother of two, 55, faces Bali death penalty after cocaine sting

29 May 12 | A British mother of two is facing the death penalty in Indonesia after being arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle more than £1.6 million ($2.5 million) worth of cocaine into Bali in her luggage.

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'This man should be arrested for war crimes!': protester bursts into Leveson courtroom to confront Tony Blair

29 May 12 | Former British prime minister Tony Blair has denied being too close to Rupert Murdoch, as the Leveson media ethics inquiry took a dramatic turn overnight.

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Briton faces firing squad

29 May 12 | A woman faces the firing squad in Bali after attempting to smuggle 4.8 kilograms of cocaine.

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Better to befriend Murdoch than to confront him: Blair

29 May 12 | MEDIA magnate Rupert Murdoch was not an ''Identikit right-wing person'' or a ''sort of tribal Tory'', former prime minister Tony Blair told the Leveson inquiry in London last night.

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Four Brits face Bali firing squad

28 May 12 | A fifty-five year old English woman and three other British nationals face the firing squad in Bali after being arrested trying to smuggle in 4.8kg of cocaine.

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The shabbiha - the 'ghost militia' accused of doing Assad's dirty work

28 May 12 | They are the "ghost militia", accused of slaughtering more than 100 people, including at least 49 children, in an attack on a Syrian town on Saturday.

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Egypt's economy the loser after first round of elections

28 May 12 | For the Egyptians who fought so hard to unseat the regime that dominated their lives for 30 years, the results of the first round of the country's first free presidential election are unthinkable.

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Global outrage over Syrian child massacre

28 May 12 | AS A WAVE of revulsion sweeps the world after a regime massacre in Syria - 32 children, some with what appear to be bullet holes in their temples, are among more than 90 dead - Washington is manoeuvring to win Moscow's support for a plan to dislodge the embattled Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad.

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