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  • Chirac bows out after 40 years

    President Jacques Chirac has announced he is to leave the Élysée Palace and will not be standing for a third term. Photograph: Eric Vidal/Reuters FRANCE: With an ardent declaration of love for France and its people, President Jacques Chirac last night announced his intention not to seek a third term in office. p

  • Opposition leader held after Harare rally

    Morgan Tsvangirai: criticised neighbours of Zimbabwe for not speaking out ZIMBABWE: Riot police broke up a prayer rally in Harare yesterday, arresting the country's main opposition leader and shooting dead a protester against President Robert Mugabe. p
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  • A better diagnostician than practitioner

    FRANCE: Economically the 12 years of Chirac's presidency have been a failure, writes Lara Marlow in Paris p

  • Rally protesters call for Zapatero to resign

    SPAIN: Tension mounts in Spain as opposition parties accuse the socialist government of giving in to Eta blackmail, writes Jane Walker in Madrid p

  • Iran plans to discuss nuclear activity directly with UN

    IRAN: Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is planning to respond in person to intensifying international pressure over his country's controversial nuclear programme, by taking his case directly to the United Nations Security Council in New York, it emerged yesterday. p

  • 29 perish in suicide bombings

    IRAQ: Suicide bombers killed 29 people in Baghdad yesterday, after a meeting of officials of world powers, Iraq and neighbouring states agreed it was vital to all to stop sectarian violence spreading across the region. p

  • Israeli, Palestinian peace talks fail to make headway

    MIDDLE EAST: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas held talks yesterday which yielded little sign of progress towards peace. p

  • Pardon must be granted in spurious Libby trial

    Opinion: There are lies and there are memory lapses. Bill Clinton denied under oath having sex with Monica Lewinsky. Unless you're Wilt Chamberlain, sex is not the kind of thing that you forget easily. Sandy Berger denied stuffing classified documents in his pants, an act not quite as elaborate as sex, but still involving a lot of muscle memory, and unlikely to have been honestly forgotten. p

  • In short

    A roundup of today's other stories in brief. p
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