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BBC News - World

The latest stories from the World section of the BBC News web site.

• China's Chen 'set to fly to US'
  Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, whose stay at the US embassy sparked a diplomatic crisis, says he is at Beijing airport expecting to go to the US.
  
  
• Eurozone set to dominate G8 talks
  US President Obama hosts an opening dinner for G8 leaders, discussing North Korea, Syria and Iran, with the eurozone crisis likely to top Saturday's agenda.
  
  
• Private spaceship set for launch
  California's SpaceX company is preparing to launch to the space station - the first resupply mission to the orbiting outpost by a private company.
  
  
• Bomb explosion at Italy school
  A bomb explodes in front of a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi killing at least one person and injuring several others, reports say.
  
  
• US baby boomers in Hep C warning
  US baby boomers are advised to get tested for the liver-destroying virus hepatitis C, in a move health officials say could save 120,000 lives.