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A Palestinian man carries the body of a boy killed when Israeli forces opened fire on a protest march at the Rafah refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday.

Photograph: Mohammed Salem

Israeli army kills 10 in strike on Palestinian rally in Gaza
It started as a peaceful rally along the littered streets of Rafah town in the southern Gaza Strip, and ended in bloodshed. The angry fists of more than 1,000 Palestinians demonstrating against a two-day Israeli siege of the nearby Tel al-Sultan part of Rafah's large refugee camp were met with Israeli tank rounds and a helicopter missile, writes Nuala Haughey in Rafah, Gaza.

Private and grind schools filling most college places
Private fee-paying schools and grind schools continue to be the main providers of students to our leading universities, according to the latest feeder school lists obtained by The Irish Times . The lists underline what one Dublin inner-city principal calls the new "educational apartheid" in second-level education, write Seán Flynn and John Downes
€1.6 billion investment by Intel will create 400 jobs
Intel delivered a pre-election jobs boost for the Government yesterday by announcing a €1.6 billion investment that will create up to 400 jobs by 2006. The world's biggest semiconductor company said yesterday it would build a new factory at its Leixlip, Co Kildare, site that would use the latest computer chip technology, writes Jamie Smyth , Technology Reporter

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US air attack on Iraqi village claims 41 lives
IRAQ: Al Arabiya television said at least 41 civilians were killed yesterday in a US air raid on an Iraqi village celebrating a wedding. p
Byrne not to seek second term after November
EU: The European Commissioner, Mr David Byrne, has announced he will step down at the end of his current term in November, to return to private life in Ireland. Mr Byrne, who is responsible for Health and Consumer Protection, said that, after seven years in public life - first as attorney general and later as commissioner - it was time for a change. p
Soldier gets a year in jail for abuse of Iraqi prisoners
IRAQ: A US soldier was sentenced to a year in jail yesterday after confessing he and colleagues abused Iraqi prisoners in a scandal that threatens to undermine President Bush's re-election chances. p
Singh is invited to form new Indian coalition
INDIA: Economist Dr Manmohan Singh, the architect of India's market reforms in the early 1990s, is to be the country's new prime minister. p
Security review after powder thrown at Blair
BRITAIN: Britain's internal security service, MI5, and anti-terrorist police chiefs launched a major review of Westminster security yesterday after Mr Tony Blair was hit by a purple-coloured flour bomb during Prime Minister's Questions in the Commons. p

Ireland

Many complaints against public bodies
Public service bodies came second only to licensed premises in complaints made against them under equality legislation, according to the Equality Authority's annual report. There were 171 complaints against public bodies under the Equal Status Act in 2003, compared with 272 against licensed premises. There were 124 complaints against educational institutions. p
Lawlor named as man who sought #5m, tribunal told
Mahon Tribunal Developer Mr Tom Gilmartin identified Mr Liam Lawlor in 1989 as the man who sought a £5 million bribe from him, according to Dublin's top local authority official at the time. p
Strike ballot taken at 'Independent'
Union members in Independent Newspapers are to finish balloting today on whether to serve strike notice on the company. p
Clampers refused to release car at request of doctor
A clamping company has apologised for an incident where its staff clamped two cars outside a doctor's surgery in Galway during a medical emergency. p
Expert says no EU state is safe
All EU member states are at continued high risk of an al-Qaeda terrorist strike and none, including Ireland, should consider itself a safe haven immune from such attacks, the EU's new EU Counter Terrorism Co-ordinator has said. p
Judge Curtin inquiry free to set rules
The Oireachtas inquiry into the conduct of Circuit Court judge Mr Brian Curtin will be able to set down its rules and procedures. p

Finance

Takeover Panel is looking at stake in Gresham
The Takeover Panel is investigating an Israeli bank's purchase of a stake in Gresham Hotel Group to see if the bank could be acting in concert with Gresham's largest shareholder Red Sea. p
Aer Rianta profits down to €20m
A weaker performance at Aer Rianta International and higher interest charges have cut after-tax profits at Aer Rianta to about €20 million, the Government was informed this week. p
Planestation buys 30% EUjet stake
The European airport operator Planestation has taken a 30 per cent stake in EUjet, the low-cost airline set up by former Ryanair executive Mr P.J. McGoldrick. p
Kerry airport calls for transatlantic flight role
Valuable transatlantic traffic should not just be confined to Shannon airport in future, local authority and aviation interests said yesterday. p

Sport

Houllier has seven days to make case
Soccer: Gerard Houllier has seven days to convince the Liverpool board he should remain in charge at Anfield, with the club's refusal to offer any public backing merely helping to fuel rumours of the manager's imminent dismissal. p
Valencia profit as reckless Barthez puts his foot in it
Soccer/Valencia - 2 Marseille - 0: Valencia, twice beaten finalists in the Champions League in 2000 and 2001, finally made the transition from European bridesmaid to the Continent's centre of attention last night. p