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  • Quake aftermath triggers humanitarian crisis

    SOLOMON ISLANDS: A humanitarian crisis sparked by a huge earthquake and subsequent tsunami threatened thousands of homeless people in the Solomon Islands yesterday as aid began to trickle in and aftershocks rattled the country. p

  • Next 48 hours critical in Iran crisis, says Blair

    A student wears a mask depicting US president George Bush during a protest in Bogor, Indonesia, yesterday, against Indonesia's decision to support a UN resolution on Irans nuclear programme. BRITAIN: Britain has said it is ready to fly a delegation to Iran as part of attempts to secure the release of the British naval crew who were taken captive last month. However, London was still waiting yesterday evening for a green light from Tehran for talks to begin. p

  • Ukraine PM claims president plotting a coup

    UKRAINE: Ukraine's president Viktor Yushchenko has refused to reverse a decision to dissolve parliament and call early elections, despite accusations from allies of prime minister Viktor Yanukovich that the move was an illegal first step in a creeping coup d'etat. p
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  • Russia offers help but avoids taking sides

    RUSSIA: Russia offered to help resolve the political crisis in Ukraine last night but avoided taking strong sides in the battle between the pro- and anti-Moscow factions. p

  • Bush and Democrats renew funding fight over troops in Iraq

    US: The US president George Bush and Democrats in charge of Congress clashed again yesterday over funding for the Iraq war, with no end likely soon to a battle over how long American forces will stay. p

  • Forecasters predict active US hurricane season

    US: This year's Atlantic hurricane season will be far more active than usual with nine hurricanes, and the US has an above-average chance of being hit by a major storm, a closely watched forecasting team has said. p

  • Bayrou's Irish roots enliven talk of crisis

    FRANCE: François Bayrou's Irish ancestry injected a cheerful note into an otherwise serious press conference (the main focus was on crisis) during which the French presidential candidate presented his programme yesterday. p

  • Musharraf's foes unite to defend chief justice

    PAKISTAN: Thousands of boisterous opposition supporters massed outside Pakistan's supreme court yesterday in the largest show of support yet for the beleaguered chief justice Muhammad Iftikhar Chaudhry. p

  • Blair, Brown join Scottish campaign

    BRITAIN: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown hit the campaign trail in Glasgow yesterday in a joint effort to avert Labour humiliation at the hands of the Scottish National Party (SNP) in the Scottish parliamentary elections on May 3rd. p

  • Hitler stripped of town citizenship ahead of G8

    GERMANY: Germany's Baltic Sea resort of Heiligendamm has stripped Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler of his honorary citizenship, two months before world leaders arrive there for the G8 summit. p

  • Troops out in force as strike fails to bring Zimbabwe to a standstill

    ZIMBABWE: Thousands of troops and police were deployed yesterday to discourage protests as trade unions failed to bring Zimbabwe to a halt with a general strike. The protests are seen as a test of the opposition's ability to mobilise ordinary people against President Robert Mugabe's rule. p

  • Nuclear watchdog to hold Jordan talks

    MIDDLE EAST: International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei is to visit Jordan next week for talks on its plan to develop nuclear energy for civilian use. p

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