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Bush drops electronic spying without warrant
US: The Bush administration has abandoned a
controversial programme that allowed the National Security Agency
to spy on phone calls and e-mails without a court warrant and will
now seek approval for such eavesdropping from a secret court. p
Merkel faces uncertainty as Stoiber calls it a day
GERMANY: Senior German conservative Edmund Stoiber announced his departure as Bavarian state premier yesterday, beginning a period of uncertainty for the conservative camp of Chancellor Angela Merkel. p
Yellow River suffers as China powers ahead
CHINA: Hydropower projects, less rainfall and severe pollution are just some of the problems afflicting 'China's Sorrow', writes Clifford Coonan in Beijing p
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Insurgents may offer US truce for Shia crackdown
IRAQ: Iraqi former officers and soldiers behind a four-year insurgency plan to escalate attacks after the hanging of their leader Saddam Hussein, an Iraqi Sunni politician said yesterday. pMinister calls on public to 'evict' Jade Goody
UK: British cabinet minister David Milliband has urged the British public to evict Jade Goody from the Celebrity Big Brother house tonight, after Channel 4 refused to pull the series despite an international row over alleged racism directed at actress Shilpa Shetty. pPot should not call kettle black, says Indian press
INDIA: Some Indian newspapers have been drawing readers' attention to a few uncomfortable home truths. Rahul Bedi reports from New Delhi pChirac pays homage to French who risked lives in wartime to save Jews
FRANCE: President Jacques Chirac has paid homage to the 2,740 French men and women certified by the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem to belong to "the just among nations" for having risked their lives to save Jews during the second World War. pFrench politician fined €5,000 for disputing the Holocaust
FRANCE: A French court gave a far-right French politician a three-month suspended jail sentence and fined him €5,000 yesterday for questioning the Holocaust. pRoyal suspends her spokesman over comment
FRANCE: French Socialist presidential candidate Ségolène Royal suspended her spokesman for a month yesterday after he called her partner, party leader François Hollande, her biggest handicap. p12 killed as gales lash northern Europe
EUROPE: At least 12 people were killed yesterday as strong winds lashed northern Europe, bringing down trees, causing travel chaos and forcing helicopters to pluck stranded sailors from the English Channel. pAhern marks 50th anniversary of ties with Japan
IRELAND: The 50th anniversary of the opening of diplomatic relations between Ireland and Japan was "an important milestone", Minister for Foreign Affairs Dermot Ahern said in Dublin last night. pMerkel's quest for new EU constitution sees Spain and Britain differ
EU: Conflicting ideas about what the European Union should do about its rejected constitution emerged yesterday in two of its larger member states, Britain and Spain. p'Lancet' reports folic acid benefits for over-50s
SWITZERLAND: Absent-mindedness in the over- 50s is significantly improved when people take folic acid supplements, according to a large study reported in today's Lancet. pUN measles scheme saves 1.2m lives in Africa
AFRICA: An 80 cent a shot measles immunization programme saved 1.2 million lives in Africa in its first five years, new research shows. pHumourist Art Buchwald, 'patron saint of political satire', dies at 81
US: Pulitzer Prize-winning American humourist Arthur "Art" Buchwald (81), who was called the "patron saint of political satire", died of kidney failure on Wednesday, his son Joel said yesterday. pUkrainian couple admit killing, eating neighbour
UKRAINE: A Ukrainian couple have been held for killing and then eating a neighbour after a late-night drinks party ended in cannibalism. pIn Short
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