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• A week on, Maliki pulls ahead in Iraq race
• "Red shirt" protesters march on Thai military base
• Mexico gunmen kill American consulate staff
• UN chief urges donors to keep Haiti funds flowing
• Sarkozy faces heavy loss in French regional poll
• Car bomb in Iraq's Falluja kills 7, wounds 20: police
• Pope stresses Christian unity at Lutheran church
• Yemen says air raid kills two top al Qaeda militants
• Power blackout hits Chile two weeks after quake
• Uribe allies win Colombia Congress vote