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UN weapons inspectors begin talks with Iraqis
IRAQ: UN arms inspectors arrived in Baghdad yesterday to search for weapons of mass destruction, a mission which will decide whether the US goes to war with Iraq. p
Greek Cypriots accept UN plan to reunify island for EU entry
CYPRUS: Greek Cypriots have formally accepted a UN plan for the reunification of the Mediterranean island. A definitive response has yet to come from the Turkish side. p
Turkey seeks EU bid with important Greek visit
EU: With the Copenhagen summit on European Union enlargement less than four weeks away, Turkey's unofficial leader Mr Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday kicked off his lightning tour of Europe's capitals by meeting Greek Prime Minister Mr Costas Simitis in Athens. p
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Accession of 10 new states to EU put back by four months
EU: European Union foreign ministers have agreed that the Union's enlargement to include 10 new member-states should be postponed by four months to May 1st, 2004. pAdvantage with the UN arms inspectors as they return
IRAQ: More development equipment should allow the UN arms inspectors greater chances of success than their predecessors, suggests Tom Clonan pCowen to discuss Iraq with Powell
US: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen, is to meet US Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Washington on Monday next for discussions on Iraq and Northern Ireland, a spokesman for the Irish embassy in Washington said yesterday. pMilosevic may cheat his trial by dying before it brings in a verdict
THE HAGUE: The war crimes tribunal is trying to determine if he's bad. A psychiatrist will pronounce if he's mad. In the meantime, ill-health may kill him. Chris Stephen reports on the trial of the Balkan Fox pUnified right is a dream come true for Chirac
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac has hailed the formal launching of a single, united party of the French right as a dream come true and "a great moment in our political history". pIrish bureaucrat finds novel way to spice up Brussels life
EU: What do Brussels bureaucrats think about all day? Some, perhaps, spend each waking moment contemplating a votive image of Jean Monnet as they consider how best to realise his dream of ever-closer union. pViolence in Iran over dissident's death sentence
IRAN: Hundreds of Iranian hardliners clashed with pro-reform students at a demonstration in Tehran yesterday in the first serious outbreak of violence in 10 days of university protests against a dissident's death sentence. p
