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  • EU endorses damning report over CIA renditions

    EU: The European Parliament yesterday voted to adopt a report that strongly criticises 14 member states, including Ireland, for failing to deal properly with the rendition of terrorist suspects by the CIA. p

  • Bush 'certain' Iran is supplying roadside bombs

    Iraqi children run next to an armoured vehicle southeast of Baghdad yesterday. IRAQ: President Bush has said he is certain that Iran is supplying deadly roadside bombs that have killed US soldiers in Iraq but he admitted he has no evidence that the orders came from the highest levels of government in Tehran. p

  • Body Shop founder suffering from hepatitis C

    BRITIAN: The Body Shop founder Anita Roddick is suffering from liver damage after contracting the hepatitis C virus more than 35 years ago, she said on her website on yesterday. p

  • Ireland 12th in Unicef child wellbeing table

    IRELAND: Despite strong economic growth over the last decade and sustained anti-poverty efforts, children growing up in Ireland suffer greater deprivation than those in most other wealthy countries, according to a UN study. p
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  • Reaction: sharp criticism from Irish MEPs

    EU: There were sharp divisions among Irish MEPs following the parliament's decision to approve a report criticising covert flights operated by the CIA. Labour MEP Proinsias De Rossa accused Fianna Fáil of trying to remove key facts and criticisms from the report in relation to Ireland. p

  • Report should serve as a wake-up call, says ISPCC

    IRELAND: The Unicef study on child wellbeing in wealthy countries, which ranks Ireland 12th out of 21 countries, should "put it up to all of us to think about what kind of society we want for all our children", a leading children's rights organisation has said. p

  • Mahdi army chiefs lie low in Iran to avoid crackdown, says official

    IRAQ: Senior commanders of the Mahdi army, the militia loyal to the radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, have been spirited away to Iran to avoid being targeted in the new security push in Baghdad, a high-level Iraqi official revealed yesterday. p

  • Majority in Arab states view Israel, US as threats to stability, says poll

    MIDDLE EAST: A survey conducted in six pro-western Arab states reveals that nearly 80 per cent of their citizens consider Israel and the US the greatest threats to the stability of the region rather than Iran. These results could make it more difficult for the Bush administration to convince Arab leaders to join the US and Israel in an alliance against Iran. p

  • Divided Lebanon remembers assassinated Hariri

    LEBANON: Razor wire, troops and a political chasm divided them. On one side, about 300,000 flag-waving Lebanese poured into Beirut's Martyrs' Square to commemorate the former prime minister's assassination. Over the fence, opponents lay low in their protest camp, watching a show of support for the government they want to go. p

  • North and South Korea to resume talks today

    NORTH KOREA: One day after North Korea agreed to halt its nuclear programmes in exchange for energy aid and improved relations with the outside world, both South and North Korea said they would resume high-level talks aimed at normalising relations. p

  • Row erupts between Croatia, Italy over wartime killings

    EU: The EU is trying to defuse a bitter row between Croatia and Italy that has stirred up lingering resentment over atrocities committed by Italy and Yugoslavia during the second World War. p

  • British soldiers cleared of torture in Iraq

    IRAQ: The highest-ranking British army officer to face a court martial in modern times and three of his men were cleared yesterday of involvement in the systematic abuse of Iraqi civilian prisoners. p

  • Winehouse pips Lily Allen to take solo prize

    BRITAIN: For the second year running they failed to show. But that did not stop taciturn trailblazers Arctic Monkeys, credited with kick-starting a boom in young British guitar talent, from picking up yet another award for their record-breaking debut at last night's Brit awards. p

  • New Turkmen leader raises hopes for dialogue

    TURKMENISTAN: Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was sworn in as president of Turkmenistan yesterday immediately after being named the landslide winner of last weekend's election. p

  • Children in north Pakistan refused vaccine

    PAKISTAN: Rumours that a WHO vaccine was an American plot to sterilise Muslims has caused a jump in polio cases, writes Declan Walsh in Peshawar p

  • Conservative Anglicans set out their stall

    BRITAIN: The Archbishop of Canterbury spent yesterday pondering demands made by conservatives in the Anglican communion about the direction of the global church. p

  • Pre-election jitters puts military back on streets

    Letter from Nouakchott Pieter Tessch The sudden appearance of scores of armed gendarmes and police in full riot gear on the streets of Mauritanian capital Nouakchott when speaking last week in the run-up to the second round of Senate elections on February 4th indicated that the military council for democracy and justice (CMJD) was getting nervous. p

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