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- Portuguese judges say charges of child sex abuse at a state-run children's home are proved against all seven defendants on trial. - Militant groups in the Gaza Strip vow to step up attacks against Israel, following the first direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders in nearly two years. - Pakistan bowler Mohammad Amir is being questioned at a north London police station over allegations of corruption, while the ICC says that the players implicated have a disciplinary case to answer. - A bomb kills at least 22 people at a Shia Muslim-organised rally in Pakistan's south-western city of Quetta. - Suspected drug gang members are killed near the US border, Mexico says, hours after President Calderon vows to continue fighting cartels. - Hurricane Earl weakens as it nears the US East Coast, though officials warn it remains "large and powerful". - UK Defence Secretary Liam Fox rules out the UK sharing aircraft carriers with France as part of closer defence co-operation. - At least four people have died and hundreds of homes have been destroyed in a new outbreak of wildfires in Russia. - The River Amazon has dropped to its lowest level in 40 years in north-eastern Peru, leaving boats stranded. - A passenger was detained and four of Miami International Airport's six concourses were evacuated on Thursday after a suspicious item was spotted in a checked bag - BP says the cost of its Gulf of Mexico oil spill has risen to $8bn - a rise of more than $2bn in the last month alone. - An explosion rips through an offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico, west of the site of the blast in April that caused a huge oil spill. - A tanker carrying 9m litres of diesel fuel runs aground off the coast of northern Canada but no environmental damage is reported. - Honduras accuses Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa of risking the life of a Honduran migrant who survived last month's Mexico massacre. - Chilean miners trapped underground receive their first hot meal in 26 days, as Nasa experts arrive at the mine site.
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