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  • Irish neutrality is not in danger, says Minister

    NATO SUMMIT: Irish neutrality was not in danger and the Government was not moving towards membership of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), the Minister of State for European Affairs, Mr Dick Roche, told reporters covering the NATO Summit in Prague yesterday. p

  • UK troops tackle flames after fire service talks fail

    Servicemen from the Royal Regiment of Wales and the Royal Air Force tackle a blaze at a disused plastics factory in West Bromwich yesterday, the first day of the national firefighters' strike. BRITAIN: The Blair government, employers and the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) formed a bitter triangle of blame last night over the collapse of talks designed to avert the firefighters' strike in Britain and Northern Ireland. p
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  • Rioting in Nigeria over Miss World hits the capital

    NIGERIA: Rioting in Nigeria sparked by Muslim anger over a newspaper article on the Miss World beauty pageant spread to the country's capital, Abuja, and to new areas of the northern city of Kaduna, already the scene of over 100 deaths, yesterday. p

  • Israelis take over Bethlehem while UN relief worker is killed in Jenin

    ISRAEL: Israel  forces took over Bethlehem yesterday after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed 11 people on a bus, and a British UN aid worker and a 10-year-old boy were shot dead during a gun battle in the West Bank city of Jenin. p

  • Security breach mars ending of NATO summit

    NATO SUMMIT: The closing stages of the NATO summit yesterday were marred by a breach of security in which the Secretary General of the alliance, Lord Robertson, was pelted with tomatoes by two Russian-speaking protesters during a news conference. p

  • Dozens arrested in Iran protests

    IRAN: Dozens of people were arrested and several hurt in clashes in three Iranian cities yesterday when the anniversary of a dissident's murder added impetus to the largest pro-reform protests for three years. p

  • Tensions in NATO inevitable as US and EU interests drift further apart

    WORLD VIEW: In a famous formulation, NATO's first secretary general, Lord Ismay, defined its purpose as: "To keep the Russians out, the Germans down and the Americans in Europe". This week's summit can best be understood in the light of a different formulation, coined by the French international relations scholar, Dominique Moïsi, who says that in the new world order "the US fights, the UN feeds and the UN funds." p

  • Haider party likely to be big loser in Austrian polls

    AUSTRIA: Austrian  voters can be sure of one thing when they go to the polls tomorrow: they are unlikely to be demonised as they were three years ago after they voted the far-right Freedom Party into power. p

  • Le tout Paris turns out again for Jackie

    FRANCE: The Kennedys brought their glamour to Paris this week with an exhibition on Jackie's personal dress style. Angela Long was there p

  • When the wanderlust is irresistible - even in the face of terrorist bombs

    Rosita Boland has gone backpacking in Asia. In the first of a regular series chronicling her journey, she explains from Japan why she decided to go p

  • AMERICA

    Conor O'Clery's round-up of news from the United States. p
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