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  • 78 killed, 150 hurt in Baghdad bombing

    IRAQ: A double car bombing wrought carnage in Baghdad's commercial centre yesterday, killing at least 78 people and injuring more than 150 in an attack that highlighted the task facing president George Bush's US troop reinforcements as they prepare a new security strategy for the Iraqi capital. p

  • Radicals win election but coalition battle begins

    Serbia's president and leader of the Democratic Party, Boris Tadic, toasting the election results in Belgrade yesterday. Photograph: Ivan Milutinovic/Reuters SERBIA: Serbia's ultra-nationalist Radicals acknowledged yesterday that they would not get a chance to run the country despite winning its general election - and predicted a rough ride for a likely coalition government of pro-EU parties. p

  • Republicans back resolution against Iraq troops plan

    US: Senior Republicans have joined Senate Democrats in proposing a resolution condemning President George Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq, calling instead for a greater focus on counter-terrorism measures. p
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  • Sri Lankan army drives out Tigers from coastal stronghold

    SRI LANKA: Sri Lanka's government yesterday promised to drive out Tamil Tiger rebels from jungles in the island's east after capturing a key insurgent stronghold in the area. But it said the rebels could avoid more fighting if they agreed to peace talks. p

  • Both parties have three frontrunners in election race

    US: With almost 20 candidates clamouring for attention a year before the first primary votes, each party has three frontrunners. On the Democratic side, New York senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is the favourite but faces serious challengers in Illinois senator Barack Obama and former vice-presidential candidate John Edwards. p

  • Mauritanians may be close to democratic rule

    MAURITANIA: After years of autocratic government, Mauritania is inching towards democracy - with a little distraction from the Paris-Dakar car rally. Pieter Tesch reports from Nouakchott p

  • Serb reform necessary before EU relents

    SERBIA: EU foreign ministers held out the prospect of future membership of the union for Serbia yesterday if its new government adopted reforms and co-operated with the international war crimes tribunal. p

  • Kostunica could well delay before entering coalition

    SERBIA: Serbia's prime minister may want others to take the first sip of the poisoned chalice of Kosovo, writes Daniel McLaughlin p

  • Scavengers invade English beach to pick up booty from stricken ship

    BRITAIN: Dozens of scavengers swarmed across a beach in south Devon yesterday, carrying off barrels of wine, car parts, clothes and, in a few cases, apparently perfect BMW motorcycles. p

  • Abbé Pierre, France's social conscience, dies aged 94

    FRANCE: Abbé Pierre, the priest who won an unrivalled place in the hearts of the French by campaigning for the homeless, died in a Paris hospital yesterday, aged 94, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris. p

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