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A commuter train crash at a station in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, kills 49 people and leaves at least 600 injured, officials say.
American Marie Colvin of the UK’s Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik are among 60 people killed as Syria intensifies its clampdown.
At least six people are killed and dozens injured in Afghanistan as protests spread over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.
Ethiopian and Somali troops capture Baidoa, a strategic stronghold of al-Shabab Islamist militants, as the UN approves extra African Union troops for Somalia.
Search teams in Italy find eight more bodies in the wreck of the cruise ship Costa Concordia which capsized on 13 January as the inquiry spreads.
A controversial anti-piracy agreement is to be referred to the EU’s highest court due to concerns surrounding internet freedoms.
Protests take place outside parliament in Greece, as MPs consider emergency laws after a 130bn-euro bailout deal.
Former IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released after two days of questioning over an alleged prostitution ring.
Europe’s top human rights watchdog, the Council of Europe, urges Germany to end the practice of surgically castrating sex offenders.
A trial verdict for Egyptian ex-President Hosni Mubarak, accused of ordering the killing of protesters in the revolution that ousted him, is set for 2 June.
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