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Page last updated at 17:25 GMT, Thursday, 24 July 2008 18:25 UK

The wreckage of a Garuda airliner (07/03/07)
Indonesian crash pilot on trial
The pilot of an Indonesian Garuda airliner that crashed last year, killing 21 people, goes on trial charged with negligence.
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A boulder blocks a road in Towada city, Aomori prefecture, after an earthquake struck the north of the Japanese island of Honshu early on Thursday Japan recovers from strong quake
Residents in northern Japan are clearing up after a strong - but luckily deep - earthquake struck early on Thursday.

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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the Burmese military's plan to restore democracy gradually is a sham.

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