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  • Leaders of NATO launch expansion to east

    From left, US President George Bush, Secretary of State Mr Colin Powell, National Securoty Advisor Ms Condoleeza Rice and Secretary of Defence Mr Donald Rumsfeld at the NATO meeting. NATO SUMMIT: Leaders of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation have invited seven countries from the former communist bloc to become members, decided to create a NATO Response Force for crisis situations, and endorsed the UN Security Council's position on Iraq. p

  • Children among 12 dead in Jerusalem bus blast

    An Israeli rescue worker removes a body part from the bus. ISRAEL: A Palestinian militant killed 11 people and injured 49 when he blew himself up on a crowded bus in Jerusalem yesterday in the first suicide bombing in Israel since the start of a general election campaign. p
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  • 'People flew in the air, on fire'

    ISRAEL: A schoolbag full of pink workbooks lay in the debris of a Jerusalem bus ripped apart by a Palestinian suicide bombing, wrenched from the hands of a student whose trip to class was violently cut short. p

  • Turkey gains Irish backing for EU entry date

    EU: Ireland is to push for Turkey to be given a date for EU accession talks at the Copenhagen summit next month. p

  • Wind is worst enemy as oil slick spreads

    SPAIN: Inhabitants of the small fishing town of Corcubion, near Cape Finisterre, woke up yesterday to the scene they have been dreading for over a week. The oil slick from the sunken tanker Prestige had reached their beaches. p

  • Russia plans long-term switch to volunteer army

    RUSSIA: Russia said yesterday it would start the wholesale switch of its largely conscript army to a mainly volunteer force in 2007, but experts said the reforms ducked tough questions facing the ailing military. p

  • Action to highlight plight of 38m famine victims

    AFRICA: The scope and depth of the hunger crisis facing millions of people across several African countries is unprecedented and requires an urgent response, the executive director of the UN's World Food Programme said yesterday. p

  • Seven killed in Nigerian riots

    NIGERIA: At least  seven people were killed and hundreds injured in riots yesterday in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, the Red Cross said. p

  • Attempt to stop firefighters' strike

    BRITAIN: Crisis talks continued late last night with the UK's threatened eight-day firefighters' strike still set to commence at 9 a.m. today. p

  • Controversy over Irish poet's lecture

    US: Afters a furious dispute at Harvard over free speech, a cancelled lecture by Irish poet Tom Paulin has been tentatively re-scheduled for next spring, writes Conor O'Clery , North America Editor p

  • Princess fined over dog attack

    BRITAIN: Britain's  Princess Anne yesterday became the first British royal in 350 years to be convicted of a criminal offence, pleading guilty to violating the Dangerous Dogs Act after her bull terrier bit two children. p

  • McDonald's facing law suit over obesity

    US: A law suit filed against McDonald's on behalf of eight obese New York children is threatening to unleash a wave of class actions similar to those that have won huge payouts from the tobacco industry. p
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