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  • Majority of whaling body snub Japanese meeting

    JAPAN: Japan's latest attempt to end the two-decade old commercial whaling ban got off to a shaky start yesterday when fewer than half the members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) turned up for a rival meeting in Tokyo. p

  • UK police urged to apologise over 'terror' raid

    BRITAIN: The London Metropolitan Police have been urged to issue a high-profile apology to two families involved in the "terrifying experience" of last year's Forest Gate anti-terror raid. p

  • Ex-governor Romney enters presidential race

    US: Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has entered the race for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008, hoping to become the first Mormon president in American history. p

  • Pöttering urges reform of EU to make it relevant

    EU: Europe needs to reform to make itself more relevant to its citizens, the new European Parliament president, Hans-Gert Pöttering, outlined yesterday. p

  • British, Hungarian bird flu linked

    BRITIAN: The H5N1 bird flu strains found in Hungary and Britain are 99.96 per cent genetically identical and almost certainly linked, according to a final analysis of the viruses by the EU Veterinary Laboratories Agency in Weybridge, southern England. p

  • Israeli academic rejects Irish call for boycott

    MIDDLE EAST: An Israeli professor has sharply criticised staff in Irish third-level colleges who called for an academic boycott of his country. Speaking during a visit to Ireland, Prof Asher Susser accused the 61 lecturers and professors who issued the boycott call in a letter to The Irish Times last September of being selective in their criticism. p

  • Gunman kills five in rampage at Utah shopping centre

    US: A gunman in a trench coat fired a shotgun randomly at shoppers in a Utah shopping centre on Monday night, killing five and wounding four before being killed by police. p

  • Tourism boost is likely spin-off from Ireland's debut in Brazilian soap opera

    BRAZIL: The plot lines may be impossibly far-fetched but Brazil's soaps have real clout when it comes to racking up global audiences, writes Tom Hennigan in São Paulo p

  • Anglican leaders meet to prevent split over gay issue

    TANZANIA: The leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans arrived in Tanzania yesterday in an attempt to prevent the church from splitting over the issue of gay clergy. p

  • Robbie Williams enters rehab again

    UK: Pop star Robbie Williams has been admitted into rehab for addiction to prescription drugs. p

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