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  • Hamas leader pledges to reach an agreement

    Palestinian gunmen from the Fatah movement attend a training exercise in the southern Gaza strip yesterday. Leader of Fatah and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said in Mecca yesterday: "Recent days have been very black and may God not allow them to return." PALESTINE:  Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas held crisis talks with Hamas in Saudi Arabia yesterday in an effort to forge a unity government and end internecine violence that has killed scores since December. p

  • Pessimism as nations gather for talks on N Korea

    CHINA: Delegates have gathered in the Chinese capital for the latest round of tortuous negotiations on North Korea's nuclear programme, with most envoys pessimistic about a speedy resolution to what are expected to be tough talks. p

  • Seventh letter bomb prompts nationwide alert

    BRITAIN: Police have put companies and the public on nationwide alert about a letter bomb campaign after confirming that seven explosive devices have been posted in England and Wales in the last three weeks. p
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  • Japan's embattled welfare minister lands himself in further hot water

    JAPAN: In politics there's a time to explain and a time to shut up, but Japan's embattled welfare minister, Hakuo Yanagisawa, doesn't seem to know the difference. p

  • Mugabe will not tolerate protests, he says

    ZIMBABWE: Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe suggested yesterday his government would not tolerate protests against an extension of his rule, saying such actions were being spearheaded by "deranged" people. p

  • Singer Frankie Laine dies at 93

    US: Frankie Laine, the full-voiced singer who became one of the most popular entertainers of the 1950s with such hits as I Believe , Jezebel and the theme to the TV western Rawhide , died on Tuesday at the age of 93. p

  • Debut novelist wins Costa literary prize

    BRITAIN: Debut novelist Stef Penney, once an agoraphobic too terrified to travel, has landed one of Britain's top literary awards for a haunting novel about the Canadian wilderness she has never visited. p

  • Trial starts of editor who published cartoons

    FRANCE: French secularism collided with Muslim devotion in a crowded, airless French courtroom yesterday, on the opening day of the trial of Philippe Val, the editor of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. p

  • 'Captain Gatso' emerges as voice behind motorist lib

    BRITAIN: The unexplained series of exploding letter bombs in England has raised the media profile of a self-styled Captain Gatso. p

  • Another Polish minister resigns from cabinet

    POLAND: Polish interior minister Ludwik Dorn resigned yesterday, the second senior cabinet member to quit this week over differences with conservative prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. p

  • Putin cautions Russian elite on western fears

    RUSSIA: Russia's oligarchs have been given a dressing down by President Vladimir Putin, who told them to stop scaring off foreign firms with aggressive language about "conquering" the rest of the world. p

  • Slovak speaker voices concern on constitution

    EU: "Some compromise" was needed on all sides to ensure passage of the EU constitutional treaty, the speaker of the Slovak parliament, Mr Pavol Paska, said on a visit to Dublin this week. But he expressed some impatience that no road-map to ratification had yet been proposed by Germany's EU presidency. p

  • Queen's help sought over Australian Guantánamo detainee

    AUSTRALIA: A leading Australian republican who overcame his distaste for monarchy to appeal to Queen Elizabeth in the case of a man being held at Guantánamo Bay has now sought intervention by the Pope and Nelson Mandela. p

  • Excavation at Jerusalem mosque sparks Islamic anger in Israel and Iran

    MIDDLE EAST: An Israeli Islamic leader warned of "religious war" and Iran's supreme leader urged retaliation against Israel yesterday over new excavations and repairs in Jerusalem's Old City, outside the Holy Land's most explosive religious site. p

  • Baghdad 'surge' gets under way as helicopter crashes

    IRAQ: The new US operation to pacify Baghdad began yesterday as American forces suffered a fresh blow when another helicopter crashed, killing seven. p

  • Bremer admits mistakes after Iraq invasion

    US: Former US civilian administrator in Iraq Paul Bremer has admitted that he made mistakes in the aftermath of the 2003 invasion but defended the decision to drive former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath party out of public service as "a good plan poorly implemented". p

  • Afghans abandon southern town as Taliban prepares to resist Nato forces

    AFGHANISTAN: More than 1,000 villagers have fled a southern Afghan town as Taliban fighters dig in to repel Nato efforts to drive them out, residents and officials said yesterday. p

  • Austrian resort tries to set quota on Russians

    AUSTRIA: To many resorts they would be viewed as dream guests: tourists prepared to spend huge amounts of money, day and night. But hoteliers in the luxury Austrian ski resort of Kitzbühel think otherwise. According to a memo leaked to the local press, they have voted to limit the number of Russian visitors to 10 per cent of the total number of guests at any one time. p

  • Hope returns to post-war Liberia with help of Irish Army

    Letter from Monrovia: "You had to practically jump over bodies to cross the road," Herbert Grigsby told me. "When the rebels captured central Monrovia, they made us line up along the street. A female fighter went up the row asking people which tribe they belonged to. One man had a cigarette, and told her he was a Mandingo. p

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