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A senior leader of India’s Maoist rebels says the government will have to declare a “simultaneous” ceasefire in order to enable talks between the two sides.

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Taiwan secures parliamentary approval – despite an opposition boycott – for a historic trade deal with China.

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The main candidates in Brazil’s presidential elections focus on patriotism and their childhoods, as their television campaigning begins.

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A new £15m economic development campus is planned for north and west Belfast.

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The chief minister of Indian-administered Kashmir pardons the policeman who threw a shoe at him on Sunday.

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Bidders interested in taking over the Olympic Stadium after the 2012 Games will be told on Wednesday they must submit fully costed and financed plans by the end of September.

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An advert for an animal charity working in Afghanistan has been banned by the advertising watchdog for being “likely to mislead”.

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Certain trees can clone themselves suggesting they could live forever and avoid extinction, but a new study dashes their hopes.

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Rebirth of Sierra Leone’s jungle battleground

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A monthly survey of consumer spending in Scotland reveals the weakest retail sales growth for more than 10 years.

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The authorities in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro has set up a grammar hotline to help people who have difficulties using Portuguese.

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A federal judge throws out piracy charges against six Somali men accused of attacking a US Navy ship off the coast of Africa, although other charges stand.

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UK students’ satisfaction with their courses has stalled at 82%, the annual National Student Survey finds.

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‘Dwindling grasslands not hunters’ put paid to woolly mammoths

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Teenage smoking rates in England have dropped since the government banned the sale of cigarettes to under 18s, research suggests.

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