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  • Senate drafts resolution condemning Iraq plan

    Hillary Clinton at her meeting with Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki on Saturday. Mrs Clinton called for capping the number of US forces in Iraq to the total there on January 1st. US: Senate Democrats and a leading Republican war critic have drafted a resolution condemning President George Bush's troop build-up in Iraq as contrary to the American national interest. p

  • Olmert under pressure as army chief quits

    Israel: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and defence minister Amir Peretz faced renewed questions yesterday about their management of Israel's military campaign against Hizbullah in Lebanon last summer, after the army chief-of-staff announced his resignation. p
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  • 17 die in suicide car bomb in Shia district

    Iraq: A suicide car bomb struck a market in the Shia district of Sadr City and police said 17 people died yesterday, a day after a blast targeting university students killed 70 in what appeared to be a renewed campaign of Sunni insurgent violence against Shias. p

  • Rabbi accuses Ahmadinejad of 'trying to imitate Hitler'

    Israel: Israel's chief rabbi yesterday accused Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of "trying to imitate Hitler" and urged the international community to isolate him. p

  • Indian tsunami victims sell organs

    India: Police in southern India are investigating reports that poverty-stricken survivors of the Indian Ocean tsunami sold their kidneys because of the slow pace of renovation after the disaster. Up to 150 people, mainly women around the city of Chennai, in Tamil Nadu, are believed to have sold their organs for 50,000 rupees (€870) in the past few months. p

  • Wanted: 'daughter' to care for lonely retired couple

    China: In common with many Chinese couples, Tian Zhendong and Ding Shuhui were relying on their only son to look after them in old age, but when he emigrated they had to resort to desperate measures, writes Clifford Coonan in Shanghai p

  • Recipients for womb transplant screened by doctors

    US: Doctors in New York have begun considering potential recipients for the world's second attempt at a womb transplant. p

  • Merkel calls for timetable on EU constitution

    EU: The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday told the European Parliament it must set a timetable for adopting an EU constitution and she would attempt to move the issue forward by speaking to the countries that have not yet ratified it. p

  • Royal would seek second French vote

    French: Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal has said that she will ask the French public to vote again in 2009 on a new European Union constitution if she is elected. p

  • Former French prime minister calls for associate status for Turkey

    French: Clear limits to the expansion of the European Union should be laid down which would exclude Turkey, the Maghreb and Ukraine from full membership for the foreseeable future, former French prime minister Laurent Fabius said in Dublin yesterday. p

  • Moscow tries to quell protests against British ambassador

    Russia: Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has called for a pro-Kremlin youth group, Nashi, to cool down its aggressive protests against the British ambassador to Moscow, Anthony Brenton. p

  • Blair, Brown and police drawn into 'Big Brother' racism row

    UK: Three days ago it was merely the below- par fifth season of a faltering reality TV franchise. But as the storm over the alleged racism of its participants intensified, Channel 4's Celebrity Big Brother show yesterday sparked demonstrations on Indian streets, consternation in prime minister Tony Blair's office, condemnation from chancellor Gordon Brown on a visit to Bangalore and a police investigation. p

  • Jade on the box: feeding the £8m mouth

    UK:  Big Brother contestants are locked in a house where they are filmed 24 hours a day interacting. Viewers vote who will stay in the house and who will be expelled. p

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