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  • Ship off English coast sheds hazardous cargo

    The Napoli off the Devon coast yesterday. The ship was beached after running into difficulties while being towed to Portland during recent bad weather. Britain: Police and coast guards sealed off part of southwest England's coast yesterday as dozens of containers, some packed with toxic and hazardous material, spilled from the listing deck of the broken-backed freighter Napoli . p

  • Clinton ahead in race for president - poll

    United States: Hillary Rodham Clinton is far ahead of Barack Obama among Democrats and would narrowly defeat Republican presidential front-runners John McCain and Rudy Giuliani, according to a poll published a day after she formally entered the 2008 race. p
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  • Stakes raised for Blair and police in honours inquiry

    Britain: The stakes have been dramatically raised for both Tony Blair and Scotland Yard in a public war of words over Friday's arrest of a senior Downing Street aide in the ongoing cash for honours investigation. p

  • Al-Sadr faction ends boycott of parliament

    Iraq: The group's return could strengthen the hand of Nouri al-Maliki ahead of a campaign to impose security in Baghdad, writes Michael Jansen . p

  • Serbian Radicals look set for victory in election

    Serbia: Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radical Party appeared last night to have beaten the western-backed, pro-EU Democratic Party in an election that offered voters two starkly different visions of the Balkan nation's future. p

  • Poles split down the middle over digging up the past

    Poland: The debate has exposed a faultline as deep as Ireland's pro- and anti-Treaty divide, writes Derek Scally in Warsaw. p

  • Youth admits killing of journalist

    Turkey: A teenager has confessed to the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, after his aunt and father saw pictures of him on television and contacted the police. p

  • Energy concerns and Kosovo dominate talks

    Russia: The future status of Kosovo and Russia's reliability as an energy partner for Europe dominated discussions between Russian president Vladimir Putin and German chancellor Angela Merkel last night. p

  • TV chiefs to meet on 'Big Brother'

    Britain: Channel 4 executives will be forced to explain their handling of the Celebrity Big Brother race row to its board today as it meets to discuss the programme for the first time. p

  • Offshore earthquake hits Indonesia

    Indonesia: A strong earthquake shook buildings in an Indonesian provincial capital last night, sending residents fleeing from their homes. p

  • 'Papa' Denny Doherty (66) dies in Canada

    Canada: Denny Doherty, one-quarter of the 1960s folk-rock group the Mamas and the Papas, known for their soaring harmony on hits like California Dreamin' and Monday, Monday , died in Canada on Friday aged 66. p

  • Having a fallback position if the surge should fail

    Opinion : If we were allied with an Iraqi government that, however weak, was truly national - cross-confessional and dedicated to fighting a two-front war against Baathist insurgents and Shia militias - a surge of American troops, together with a change of counterinsurgency strategy, would have a good chance of succeeding. p

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