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- Sweden's TeliaSonera AB announces cash offers worth around $687.7 million in total for shares it doesn't already own in two Baltic telecom operators. (The Wall Street Journal))
- Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro appears on television for the first time in more than a year. (BBC)
- Thieves kill an endangered Sumatran Tiger in an Indonesian zoo and steal its body, leaving its intestines behind. (BBC)
- Ireland's Green Party and gay rights organisations defend plans to introduce civil partnerships for same-sex couples following criticism of the move by Cardinal Seán Brady, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. (The Irish Times)
- China is to try 200 people suspected of their involvement in the Ürümqi riots last month. (GBC) (Associated Press) (Press TV)
- Two mass graves containing the remains of communist soliders dating from the Vietnam War are discovered in central Vietnam. (The Straits Times) (China Daily)
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