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1: The Supreme Court has ordered another election in the Ukraine to take place, ending a two-week election crisis of protests and national division. Both sides had agreed to await for the Supreme Court regarding claims of ballot-rigging in the November 21 election.
2: US President George W. Bush has praised the efforts of Pakistan in the war on terrorism and the search for terror suspect Osama bin Laden as he met with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf to discuss the current international conflict.
3: Seven have been killed and fifty-seven wounded in two twin suicide bombings outside a police station in the Iraq, with several cars being destroyed and black smoke billowing from the scene.
4: Javal Davis and Sabrina Harman are being charged in a military court for abuses against Abu Ghraib prisoners and United States Military judge Colonel James Pohl has ordered Brig. General Janis Karpinski, the head of US prisons in Iraq during the Iraq war, to testify in court.
5: Police in the United States have begun another search of the Californian Neverland estate of pop star Michael Jackson.

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05

1: Ukraine presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko has urged his supporters to continue the blockade of government buildings to ensure the election goes ahead as ordered by the Supreme Court.
2: Iraqi insurgents killed 17 people in the shooting of two buses of workers at a weapons dump, putting the total number of Iraqis killed between Friday and Sunday at 70.
3: The Government of Egypt has released an Israeli spy to cool the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians and in return Israel has released six Egyptians. Following the prisoner swap, the release of Israeli Azzam Azzam by Egypt is predicted to allow the release of Palestinian Presidential Candidate Marwan Barghouti. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak hopes the efforts will help improve Israeli-Egyptian relations.
4: Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has claimed that the Iraqi war did more bad than good. He told CNN's Wolf Blitzer that after the world is not as safe as it was before the war in Iraq.
5: Apple has caused international controversy and outrage after it was revealed that different prices are charged for Apple iTunes in different countries. Consumer complaints are being investigated by the Office of Fair Trading in Britain and the European Union after claims that Apple iTune prices are up to 20% higher in the United Kingdom than in France and Germany. Under European law, British consumers are entitled to the same consumer benefits as other EU consumers. Prices in the United States are also more expensive than prices in Canada.