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  • Call for UN sanctions vote against Iran

    Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani speaking during Friday prayers at a university in Tehran yesterday. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters UN: Britain, France and Germany have introduced a draft UN Security Council resolution demanding that Iran stop enriching or reprocessing uranium by next month or face unspecified sanctions. p

  • Bush asks black Americans to trust his party

    George Bush: "My party wrote off the African-American vote" US: President George W. Bush has told black leaders that he wants to change the relationship between the Republican Party and the African-American community and to work together to combat such blights as HIV and poor education. p
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  • Somali Islamists prepare for war

    SOMALIA: Islamist leaders yesterday called for Somalis to prepare for war, as residents said Ethiopian troops were moving closer to Mogadishu, seat of the Muslim militia now holding much of the Horn of Africa nation. p

  • Colombia's demobilisation crisis deepened by key judgment

    COLOMBIA: Paramilitaries in Colombia are deeply unhappy with a new court ruling, writes Ana Carrigan p

  • Prodi warns of election if he loses two key votes

    ITALY: Italian prime minister Romano Prodi, facing close votes in parliament on troops in Afghanistan and economic reforms, said he would risk a new election two months into the job if his tiny majority does not hold. p

  • Prescott criticised byparliamentary watchdog

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Tony Blair came under renewed pressure last night to strengthen the code which governs the conduct of ministers after his deputy, John Prescott, was criticised by a parliamentary watchdog investigation. p

  • Darling of the day Merkel now dubbed the 'failed reformer'

    GERMANY: The chancellor is doing well on the international stage but less well at home, writes Derek Scally p

  • Security chiefs quit in Romania debacle

    ROMANIA: Romania's top prosecutor resigned yesterday, following the example of the country's three intelligence chiefs, after a man suspected of arranging the kidnapping of journalists in Iraq vanished during his release from jail for medical treatment. p

  • US mothers told to leave their homes and get to work

    America: Motherhood may be as American as apple pie but these are difficult times for American mothers, hectored from all sides about the mistakes they are making in raising their children. p

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