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Bolivia law lets Morales run for third term

The Bolivian vice president has signed into law a controversial constitutional amendment to allow President Evo Morales to run for a third term.

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Protests in New York after gay man's murder

Thousands of New Yorkers - including mayoral candidate Christine Quinn - have marched to protest the shooting death of a gay man in the neighbourhood that was the cradle of the modern US gay rights movement.

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Obama says Myanmar to release more prisoners

President Barack Obama said that Myanmar's President Thein Sein planned to release more political prisoners and institutionalize democratic reforms in his country.

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Co-founder of US group The Doors dies at 74

Ray Manzarek, a founding member of the 1960s rock group The Doors whose versatile and often haunting keyboards complemented Jim Morrison's gloomy baritone and helped set the mood for some of rock's most enduring songs, has died.

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US rescuers search for tornado survivors

Rescuers have sifted through rubble searching for survivorsRescuers have sifted through rubble searching for survivors after a 3km-wide tornado packing 320kph-strong winds devastated Oklahoma City suburbs, killing at least 24 people, injuring at least 230 and leaving dozens missing.

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Guatemala court overturns genocide conviction

court rules that the trial of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt restartGuatemala's top court has overturned the genocide conviction of former military ruler Efrain Rios Montt and ordered that his trial restart.

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Myanmar president set to meet Obama

Myanmar President Thein Sein is set to become the first leader of his country to visit the White House in nearly half a century, in one of the most symbolic US gestures yet to support his reforms.

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Powerful tornadoes lash US states

Tornadoes have lashed the US states of Oklahoma and Kansas, leaving one person dead, in what experts say is a weather system moving through the central region, stretching from north Texas to Minnesota.

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Canada's top aide quits over expenses scandal

The top aide to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has resigned over his role in an mounting expenses scandal which is threatening to undermine the Conservative government.

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Post-Chavez Venezuela makes overture to US

Venezuela's foreign minister has signalled that his country is ready to improve its diplomatic ties with the United States.

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