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Iraqi letter puts end to fears of immediate war moves
IRAQ: The prospect of immediate war over Iraq receded yesterday minutes before 11.00 a.m. when Baghdad's ambassador to the United Nations, Mr Mohammed al-Douri, took the lift to the executive floor of the UN Building in New York. He went to the office of UN Secretary General Mr Kofi Annan and handed in a nine-page letter signed by Iraqi Foreign Minister Mr Naji Sabri. p
Latest bin Laden tape an embarrassment for Bush
US: The new audiotape attributed to Osama bin Laden has shifted the focus in the United States away from the prospect of conflict with Iraq back to the war on terrorism. p
Immigrants send defiant message and refuse to quit Calais church
FRANCE: Up to 100 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants yesterday defied police orders to end their occupation of a church in the French port of Calais, the last stop for many on a stowaway route to Britain. p
Other World Stories
President cancels visit by Miss World contestants
NIGERIA: Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has cancelled plans to receive contestants for this year's Miss World pageant in Abuja in an effort to avoid offending Muslims, organisers said yesterday. pUS bishops approve Vatican's revised paedophile priest policy
US: Roman Catholic bishops in the US overwhelmingly approved the Vatican's version of a policy on paedophile priests yesterday, with the Boston cardinal at the heart of the American scandal arguing for both apology and forgiveness. p35 Palestinians arrested as Israelis reoccupy Nablus
MIDDLE EAST: Israeli paratroopers backed by dozens of tanks and armoured vehicles thrust into the West Bank town of Nablus before dawn yesterday. The raid began two days after a Palestinian killed five Israelis in a kibbutz, and in the midst of the latest visit by a US envoy. pJiang to retire today after forcing rival out
CHINA: China's senior Communist leader, Mr Jiang Zemin, is expected to step down from power at the party congress in Beijing today after forcing a popular rival to leave the stage with him. pSwedish minister gives up salary
SWEDEN: Public criticism over high salaries combined with pensions enjoyed by some ministers in Mr Göran Persson's new government, has prompted the Minister of Migration to give up his salary from next month. pGoing OTT down under to spoof article on Catholicism
AUSTRALIA: "It is time Australia seriously re-evaluated its immigration policies regarding Irish Catholics," Australian journalist Michael Duffy wrote in the (Sydney) Daily Telegraph recently. pFirefighters' strike begins in Britain, NI
BRITAIN: Troops in ageing Green Goddesses - military fire tenders - were answering 999 calls last night after tens of thousands of firefighters across Britain and Northern Ireland staged a 48-hour walk-out in a dispute over pay. pBlair takes right turn in crusade against crime
BRITAIN: The British Labour government is prepared to risk the wrath of many of its supporters in its fight against crime. Frank Millar in London reports on yesterday's Queen's Speech p
