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Page last updated at 04:14 GMT, Saturday, 11 July 2009 05:14 UK

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (centre) visits the Natanz Uranium Enrichment Facility, April 2008
G8 warning on Iran crackdown
G8 leaders are seriously concerned about Iran's "appalling" post-poll violence and its nuclear programme, Barack Obama says.
Iran police tear gas protesters
Iran learns to crush dissent
G8 vows to boost food supplies

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and UK PM Gordon Brown meet at G8 in Italy Gaddafi and Brown in first talks
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi meets UK PM Gordon Brown and shakes a US president's hand for the first time.

Iraqi players in training, 8 July 2009 Iraqi footballers win on return
The Iraqi football team celebrates a win in the first international football match held in Iraq since the invasion of 2003.

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