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It appeared as a faint fleck to scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to scout out the ex-planet's neighbourhood.
Ousted president Fernando Lugo created enemies at home and abroad by thwarting US military goals.
As it skims the giant planet, New Horizons will pick up a treasure trove of data.

With the unglamorous status as the solar system's only "Ice Dwarf", Pluto has often struggled to attract the scientific interest of some if its larger celestial neighbours.

Despite only 30 protesters turning up to oppose a plutonium-fueled mission to Pluto, anti-nuclear activists said the threat of a nuclear accident is as real as before.
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Al Jazeera's exclusive publishing of a key Guantanamo prison military document lays bare the brutality of force-feeding.
Former military official says poverty and anger in indigenous communities mean conditions for an "insurgency" are ripe.
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
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Two years since the start of the uprising, rebels and Assad's forces remain locked in conflict.
A four-part series that gives a rare insight into the country on the move, with history in tow.
Extensive coverage of war crimes tribunals and controversial calls for blasphemy laws.
Series on the Palestinian 'catastrophe' of 1948 that led to dispossession and conflict that still endures.
Al Jazeera looks at the escalation of military threats between N Korea and geopolitical rivals.
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