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(CNN) -- MONDAY

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Pakistan civil rights protesters and lawyers wave banners at a demonstration in Islamabad.

The United States will help Iraq and Turkey crack down on Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq, President Bush said after meeting with Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Read more.

The head of Britain's intelligence services has warned that children as young as 15 are becoming involved in terrorist-related activity. Read more.

A Palestinian state alongside Israel is within reach, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after talks with the Palestinian president and Israeli prime minister. Rice said a proposed summit in Annapolis, Maryland, later this year can be a "launching pad" toward a two-state solution. Read more.

Floods triggered by heavy rain killed at least 33 people in central Vietnam as residents braced for a tropical storm that made landfall later in the week. Read more.

Alvaro Colom of the center-left National Union of Hope party was declared the official victor in Guatemala's presidential election. Colom's party -- the National Union of Hope -- was hard hit by assassinations that marked election season.

Five U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq on Monday, making 2007 the deadliest for the American military in the Iraq war. The grim record came despite lower death rates in recent months. Read more.

TUESDAY

Baton-wielding police fought with lawyers outside courthouses in Islamabad and Lahore for the second day, arresting dozens more as they enforced Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown on judicial activism.

Twenty people suspected of involvement in the recruitment of suicide bombers were arrested in Italy and other European countries. Read more.

A team of U.S. experts has began disabling North Korea's nuclear weapons-making facilities, a U.S. official said, the first time Pyongyang has ever moved to scale back its development of atomic bombs.

41 people -- including six members of parliament and possibly some children -- were killed in a suicide bombing as they visited a sugar factory in northern Afghanistan.

WEDNESDAY

An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at a school in Finland, killing eight, in a shooting that appeared to have been planned out in graphic videos posted on Internet sharing site YouTube.

Demonstrations in Tiblisi that had lasted for days involving thousands of people calling for the resignation of Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili were broken up by riot police and tear gas and a state of emergency called. Read more.

An Indian toddler born with four arms and four legs began her recovery after surgeons in India successfully completed a mammoth 27-hour operation to remove her "parasitic twin." Read more.

Detailed plans for the 80,000-seater stadium that will host the 2012 Olympic Games in London were finally unveiled. Read more.

THURSDAY

Under intense international pressure to restore democracy in Pakistan, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf announced that parliamentary elections will be held by February 15 and restated his pledge to step down as the country's military leader.

Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said in a statement released by a U.N. envoy that she is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's military rulers to pursue national reconciliation.

Coming on the heels of Chad's kidnapping charges against six French workers with the group Zoe's Ark, Chad will investigate reports that 74 Chadian children were flown to France weeks ago without their parents' knowledge, a senior judicial official said.

German tennis star Tommy Haas announced he is to have further tests to determine if he was poisoned during their Davis Cup semifinal defeat to Russia in September. Read more.

FRIDAY

Dozens of security forces surrounded opposition leader and former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's house Friday, cordoning off nearby streets. Read more.

A huge offshore oil discovery could raise Brazil's petroleum reserves by a whopping 40 percent and boost this country into the ranks of the world's major exporters. Read more.

Italian police found a list of 10 commandments for mobsters in a house near Palermo, where a top Mafia boss was arrested this week. The list bars mobsters from hanging out in bars, from befriending police and being late for appointments. Read more.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and a top Colombian guerrilla chief gave a glimmer of hope that dozens of hostages held by the leftist rebels would be freed. Among the captives are Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian senator who was kidnapped in 2002, and three American contractors. E-mail to a friend E-mail to a friend

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