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Bin Laden praises recent attacks
A Qatar-based television station has broadcast what it says is the voice of Osama bin Laden praising recent anti-Western attacks in Bali, Kuwait and Yemen, and last month's hostage-taking in Moscow. p
Immigrants in Calais chapel given deadline
FRANCE: The French Interior Minister, Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, yesterday gave 100 Kurdish immigrants occupying a sailors' chapel in Calais an ultimatum to leave within 24 hours or face removal. p
Israeli troops raid refugee camp as US envoy arrives
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli troops and armoured vehicles raided the West Bank city of Tul Karm and its adjacent refugee camp early yesterday, in response to an attack by a Palestinian gunman on a kibbutz in northern Israel on Sunday in which five people were killed. p
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Parliament leaves final decision on resolution to Saddam
IRAQ: Iraq's parliament has voted unanimously to reject the key UN resolution demanding the country's disarmament but has left the final decision to President Saddam Hussein. pDrug to counter effects of nerve gas bought
IRAQ: Iraq has ordered large amounts of a drug which can be used to counter the effects of nerve gas, the New York Times reported yesterday, quoting Bush administration officials. pIs war inevitable and is it all just about oil?
IRAQ: The day after tomorrow is Iraq's first deadline in the process of getting UN arms inspectors back into the country. Deaglán de Bréadún and Patrick Smyth ask (and answer) some of the questions surrounding the crisis pCuba and the mighty dollar combine to preserve Hemingway time-capsule
CUBA: Thousands of the novelist Ernest Hemingway's documents and photographs found decaying at his Havana estate are to be preserved, thanks to US funding and Cuban co-operation. pHunt for bishop kidnapped in Colombia
COLOMBIA: Colombian troops launched a major hunt yesterday to rescue a senior Roman Catholic bishop who was kidnapped by suspected leftist rebels. The Church finds itself once again in the crossfire of the country's 38-year war. pEU chief favours Turkey joining
EU: The European Union's top enlargement official strongly defended Turkey's bid to join the community yesterday, but said he did not favour giving Ankara a date to open negotiations at an EU summit next month. pHealth fears halt Milosevic trial
HAGUE: Former Yugoslav president Mr Slobodan Milosevic's trial ground to a halt yesterday for the second time this month as his ailing health sparked concern about disruption to Europe's top international war crimes case since the second World War. pReview announced of palace's role in trial of butler
BRITAIN: Buckingham Palace is again under fire over its failure to order a full independent inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the collapse of the Paul Burrell theft trial. pPunter at odds with fraud law as bets are placed after races
US: It's the dream of crooked gamblers and the theme of countless movies - placing a bet on a winning horse after the race has been run. pCyprus reunification plan gets a guarded welcome
CYPRUS: The Greek side adopted a positive view of the UN proposal for the reunification of Cyprus, but the Turkish side was more cautious, rejecting deadlines set for its acceptance and implementation. pLending a hand to the French healthcare system
PARIS LETTER/Lara Marlowe Dr Taieb summoned his colleagues to look at the X-ray. "It's an enchondroma, a benign tumour that attacks the hand bones," he said pointing at the wavy outline of my fifth metacarpal, broken into several pieces. The enchondroma had weakened the bone, so it snapped when I crash-landed after my bicycle hit a cobblestone. I headed for a hospital emergency room, and my first encounter with what the World Health Organisation (WHO) claims is the world's best healthcare system. p
