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Page last updated at 09:10 GMT, Wednesday, 17 December 2008

Oil pump, file pic
Call for record Opec output cut
Opec leaders gather in Algeria where they are under pressure to make their biggest single cut in oil production to date.
Oil pares gains on US stock data
Opec refuses oil production cuts

Israeli soldiers and emergency staff wheel a wounded passenger into a hospital in central Israel, 16 December 2008 Russian bereaved head for Israel
Russia is sending a plane to Israel carrying doctors and relatives of victims of a bus crash which killed 24 people.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino with black eye, 16 December 2008 Bush brushes off shoe attack
George Bush has no hard feelings about the Iraq shoe attack, says his spokeswoman, who received a black eye in the melee.

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Inside Iran blog Cyber wars
Iran's bloggers fight for internet free speech

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STRUGGLE FOR IRAQ
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