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  • British furious at propaganda video of sailors

    UK/IRAN: Iran dramatically raised the stakes in its tense diplomatic stand-off with Britain last night, broadcasting a video of the British sailors and marines seized last week, including a "confession" that they had entered Iranian waters. p

  • Mugabe to face questions at African summit

    ZIMBABWE: The battered and slightly rusty-looking trombones and trumpets of the local brass band struck up just as the battered and slightly rusty-looking Zimbabwe Airlines jet rumbled off the runway and up to the welcoming committee. p
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  • Arabs propose land-for-peace deal

    SAUDI ARABIA: Arab leaders closed ranks to appeal to Israel yesterday to overcome its long-standing reservations and accept a landmark offer that could lead to a breakthrough in the Middle East peace process. p

  • Tsvangirai detained briefly

    ZIMBABWE: Police surrounded the main Zimbabwean opposition party headquarters and briefly detained its leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday as African leaders met in Tanzania to debate Zimbabwe's escalating political crisis. p

  • Appeal for food aid to North Korea

    UN: Millions of North Koreans could go hungry if they do not receive much-needed food aid soon, the World Food Programme (WFP) said yesterday. The UN agency appealed to its biggest donors, including Ireland, to keep diplomacy separate from humanitarian aid for the impoverished Stalinist state. p

  • Abortion debate rages in Poland

    POLAND: Pro- and anti-abortion groups demonstrated in Warsaw yesterday as politicians debated a proposal that could tighten Poland's already restrictive abortion laws. p

  • New study challenges theory on existence of modern mammals

    BRITAIN: Humans and other modern mammals do not owe their existence to the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, new research suggests. p

  • Tajik president calls halt to 'pompous' debs dances

    TAJIKISTAN: If Ireland was the first country to pioneer the smoking ban, then Tajikistan may be leading the way in calling for a ban on debs dances. p

  • Three Italians arrested in EU bribery inquiry

    EU: Belgian police have arrested three Italians in connection with a multimillion euro fraud involving the award of public tenders for EU representative offices abroad. p

  • Bush warns Democrats over Iraq

    US: President George Bush has accused Democrats in Congress of interfering with the conduct of the war in Iraq and endangering US soldiers and American security. Speaking a day after the Senate voted by 50-48 to include a timetable for withdrawal from Iraq in a new military spending Bill, Mr Bush warned that setting such a deadline would be disastrous. p

  • Night sky: asteroid in our orbit

    ASTRONOMY: An asteroid approximately 1.5km (one mile) across will come close enough to the earth to be seen through a telescope from today. p

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