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  • Force is a last resort, says Cowen

    US/IRAQ: The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Cowen, made it clear yesterday that the UN Security Council would have no other option but to endorse an American-led military assault on Iraq if the council found that Baghdad was in material breach of the UN resolution on disarmament, writes Conor O'Clery, North America Editor, in New York p

  • Strike by French lorry drivers fizzling out

    French police vehicles are parked alongside blockaded trucks at a roadblock set up by striking truck workers near Lyons yesterday. Photograph: Reuters FRANCE: The French lorry drivers' strike appeared to be fizzling out yesterday because of widespread police intervention and division among trade unions. By 6.30 p.m., only one roadblock was left, near Lyons, compared to dozens across the country in the morning. Lara Marlowe, reports from Paris p

  • Air-controllers' strike grounds Ireland to Paris flights

    FRANCE/IRELAND: All flights from Ireland to Paris have been cancelled today beacuse of the French air traffic controllers' strike. Irish road hauliers have so far escaped the effects of French industrial action, however, as the blockades mounted by truckers on Sunday and early yesterday disappeared. p
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  • India says group backed by Pakistan attacked Hindu temples

    INDIA: India yesterday blamed a Pakistan-backed Muslim terrorist group for attacking two Hindu temples in northern, disputed Jammu and Kashmir state in which 13 people, including worshippers, were killed and over 50 injured. p

  • Austrians get down to talks

    AUSTRIA: The Austrian chancellor, Mr Wolfgang Schüssel, began preliminary talks yesterday to form a new coalition government after the landslide victory of his conservative People's Party (ÖVP) in Sunday's general election, writes Derek Scally , in Berlin p

  • Criticism grows in Spain as oil pollution spreads

    SPAIN: AS fast as the oil slick from the wrecked tanker Prestige spreads along the Galician coast of north-west Spain, so too does the controversy about the accident, its causes, the responsibilities and the chaotic conditions in the clean-up operation. p

  • Iran's hardline judges to review death sentence imposed on leading academic

    IRAN: Iran's judiciary announced yesterday that it would review the case of a prominent academic who has been condemned to death for blasphemy. In a simultaneous announcement, a senior government official said that an absolute ban had been imposed on student protests. p

  • Ridge to get security job

    US/IRAQ: President George W. Bush signed a law yesterday creating a vast Department of Homeland Security to prevent terrorist attacks on the United States, setting in motion the biggest government overhaul in half a century which will take at least a year to complete. p

  • Crew of 'Abraham Lincoln' eager for green light to take on Saddam

    US/IRAQ: If there is a war in Iraq, the pilots and crew of the USS Lincoln are likely to play a large part. Jack Fairweather reports from the carrier in the Gulf p

  • Inspectors to work 'like flexible detectives'

    UN/IRAQ: UN experts vowed on their arrival in Baghdad yesterday to operate "like detectives" in inspecting suspected Iraqi arms sites after a four-year hiatus. p

  • As Israelis kill boy, new Labour leader offers talks

    MIDDLE EAST: An eight-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday. The new leader of the Labour Party, Mr Amram Mitzna, announced he would employ many of the methods adopted by the Israeli Prime Minister, Mr Ariel Sharon, in fighting terror, except he was ready to speak to the Palestinians even as the violence continues. p

  • Embattled university head refuses to go quietly

    SOUTH AFRICA: An Irish-born academic is fighting to keep her top job at one of South Africa's universities. Patrick Laurence reports p

  • Ethiopia facing major famine, warns agency

    ETHIOPIA: Greater focus is needed on long-term famine prevention measures in Ethiopia, representatives from the Irish-based Self Help Developmental Agency said yesterday. p

  • Locals defy rats, landslides to hold onto homes along China's rivers

    CHINA: The vast Three Gorges dam in China has been sealed, and flood waters are beginning to rise. Over half a million people have to be resettled as a result. Jasper Becker reports from Fengjie, where some locals want to stay put p
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