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  • Relief as weapons inspectors prepare to go to Iraq

    Iraqi soldiers perform during a Baghdad Day celebration yesterday. Photograph: Akram Salah/Reuters UN/IRAQ: United Nations weapons inspectors were preparing yesterday to return to Iraq after it reluctantly accepted Security Council demands, as neighbouring states let out a sigh of relief in the hope the region might escape war. p

  • Pontiff makes first papal visit to Italian parliament

    Pope John Paul II gestures as he speaks before the Italian Parliament yesterday. Photograph: Getty Images ITALY: Some 132 years after his predecessor Pius IX was unceremoniously removed from temporal power in Rome in the defining moment of Italian unification, Pope John Paul II and the Italian state put bygones behind them yesterday when the Pontiff made a first visit to the Italian parliament, writes Paddy Agnew, in Rome p
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  • Arms inspections to be 'tough but tactful'

    UN/IRAQ: Over 200 UN inspectors are preparing to examine up to 700 sites in Iraq. Michael Jansen in Nicosia explains their task and how they will do it p

  • Rumsfeld dismisses Iraqi denial of weapons

    US/IRAQ: The US Defence Secretary, Mr Donald, Rumsfeld, yesterday brushing aside Iraq's denials that it has weapons of mass destruction, insisting that Baghdad has them and that UN inspectors would make their own conclusions. p

  • US scientists say tape almost 100% bin Laden

    US: In the same way as the anonymous author of "Primary Colours" was "outed" because of his use of language, US scientists have concluded with almost 100 per cent certainty that the tape played on al-Jazeera television on Tuesday came from Osama bin Laden, writes Conor O'Clery, North America Editor p

  • 3 die in fires on first night of strike

    BRITAIN: The Blair government may order troops to cross picket lines if the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) escalates the strike action which has left the UK without regular fire cover for a second night. However, 10 Downing Street has denied reports it is considering banning the first of three planned eight-day strikes scheduled by the FBU for next Friday. p

  • Refugees expelled from chapel

    FRANCE: French gendarmes peaceably expelled 99 Kurdish Iraqi and Afghan immigrants from a chapel in the Channel port of Calais at dawn yesterday. It follows a four-day occupation during which the refugees insisted they wanted "to go to Sangatte or to die". p

  • 15 arrested at Sydney protest over trade talks

    AUSTRALIA: A mounted police charge was used to quell violence at an anti-globalisation protest yesterday in Sydney, where around 2,000 protesters marched in advance of today's World Trade Organisation talks. p

  • Afghanistan: a lesson for US in catching its enemies

    AFGHANISTAN: US troops continue to search for Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar but given the way they evaded capture they may never be caught, write Alissa J. Rubin and Maura Reynolds from Kandahar p
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