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  • Bush defends war based on faulty intelligence

    US: President George W Bush has accepted responsibility for going to war in Iraq on the basis of faulty intelligence but defended his decision as acting in America's national security interest. p

  • Tueni killers 'terrified of democracy'

    Nayla Tueni, daughter of murdered anti-Syrian publisher and legislator Gebran Tueni, mourns over her father's coffin in Beirut yesterday. MIDDLE EAST: Tens of thousands of Lebanese gathered yesterday at the centre of Beirut to mourn legislator and newspaper publisher Gebran Tueni who, with two associates, Nicholas Flouti and Andre Mrad, was killed by a car bomb on Monday. p

  • US House to back harsh curbs on illegals

    US: Thousands of undocumented Irish immigrants in the United States would become criminals overnight and be barred permanently from entering America, under a bill expected to be approved by the House of Representatives today. p
European News

  • Blair fights rearguard action to prevent new crisis

    EU: When EU leaders gather this evening to try to hammer out a deal on the bloc's 2007-2013 budget, all smiles for the photographers will do little to clear the tense atmosphere that grips Brussels. p

  • Key proposals

    How does the new British proposal compare with the last one? The total EU budget rises to 849.3 billion, up from 846.8 billion. p

  • Britain revises EU budget plan but rebate leads to veto threat

    EU: Britain issued new proposals for a slightly bigger EU budget yesterday but did not offer any further cuts to its rebate ahead of a crucial European summit today. p

  • Blair says bombings inquiry would divert resources

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Tony Blair has defended his government's decision not to hold a public inquiry into the July 7th London bombings, saying it would constitute a massive diversion for the police and security services. p

  • EU to look into CIA use of Europe for detention centres

    EU: The European Parliament has decided to create a temporary committee to investigate the suspected use of European countries by the Central Intelligence Agency for the illegal detention and transport of terror suspects. p

  • Disquiet as Italy restores PR in elections

    ITALY: The Italian parliament has approved a controversial new electoral system that opposition leaders say is designed to help prime minister Silvio Berlusconi in next year's general election. p

  • State challenge to how EU data law was ratified

    EU: Ireland plans to bring a legal challenge against the method used to introduce new EU laws forcing telephone companies to keep records. p

  • Germany admits it questioned one of its citizens in Guantanamo Bay

    GERMANY: German interior minister Wolfgang Schäuble has admitted that German investigators questioned a German citizen in the US military prison in Guantánamo Bay, where he has been held for the last four years. The admission, made hours before it was due to appear in today's Die Zeit newspaper, throws new light on Berlin's criticism of US policy towards terrorism suspects. p
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  • From bullets to ballots: the road to elections

    April 9th 2003  - Three weeks after US and British forces invade from Kuwait, US troops sweep into central Baghdad as Saddam Hussein's three-decade rule crumbles into chaos and looting. p

  • Iranian president denies Holocaust

    IRAN: Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday that the Holocaust was a myth, triggering a fresh wave of international condemnation. p

  • Iraq's factions prepare to elect first full-term assembly

    IRAQ: While turnout is hard to predict, voting is likely to be along ethnically divided lines, writes Michael Jansen . p

  • Security Council plans to pressurise Syria

    UN: The UN Security Council was yesterday considering ways to keep pressure on Syria to co-operate with the UN investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri after hearing that Damascus has burned documents and intimidated witnesses. p

  • Israel to start bus convoys to Gaza

    MIDDLE EAST: Bowing to strong US pressure, Israel yesterday agreed to complete preparations for operating bus convoys for Palestinians between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which will start next week. p

  • Ancient Maya painting casts light on creation

    GUATEMALA: Inside a ruined pyramid in the Guatemalan jungle, archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known Maya painting, a brightly coloured 10m-long mural depicting the Maya creation myth and the coronation of the Maya's first earthly king. p

  • Shameful behaviour by all as Sydney turns nasty

    Sydney Letter: The writing was not on the wall regarding last Sunday's explosion of racial rioting in Sydney; it was in thousands of mobile phones. p

  • InShort

    A round-up of today's other stories in brief p
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