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Bush set to veto Senate Bill on troop pull-out
US: The US Senate has approved a Bill that would
make funding for the Iraq war conditional on a commitment to
withdraw combat troops within a year, triggering a showdown with
President George Bush. p
Putin in row with Nato over threat to end treaty
RUSSIA: New tensions between Nato and Russia erupted last night after President Vladimir Putin threatened to freeze his country's commitment to an international arms treaty. p
Civilians continue to die in fierce Mogadishu shelling
SOMALIA: The Somali capital, Mogadishu, suffered some of the heaviest bombardment in nine days of fighting yesterday as Ethiopian tanks supporting the interim government shelled new areas of the city, despite a claim by the Somali prime minister to have routed Islamist insurgents. p
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Separation wall plan a fiasco for US military
IRAQ: US officials have suspended work on a 12ft barrier cordoning off a large Sunni-dominated area in Baghdad, writes Mohamad Bazzi pUS officer held 'for aiding enemy'
IRAQ: A senior US army officer at a US-run prison in Iraq that holds former top aides to Saddam Hussein and insurgents has been charged with "aiding the enemy", the US military said yesterday. pDecision to allow prince to go to Iraq under review
BRITAIN: The British Ministry of Defence was in "a political pickle" last night as the head of the army, Gen Sir Richard Dannatt, reviewed the decision to allow Prince Harry to serve in Iraq. pHamas factions reaffirm truce in Gaza
MIDDLE EAST: Palestinian armed factions renewed their commitment to a Gaza Strip truce yesterday but said rocket salvoes from the territory could resume if Israel did not halt military operations in the occupied West Bank.Limit to lawyers visits to Guantánamo proposed
US: The Bush administration wants to put new restrictions on lawyers who represent detainees at Guantánamo Bay, limiting the number of times they can visit clients and allowing intelligence officers to read letters from lawyers to inmates. pNew date for Ukraine poll angers PM
UKRAINE: Ukraine's prime minister accused its president yesterday of reneging on a deal that could have ended the country's political crisis, by rescheduling controversial snap elections. pIran says it is close to 'united view' with EU on nuclear talks
IRAN: Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, said yesterday that Iran and the EU were nearing a "united view" in some areas of their talks and new ideas were raised to break an international impasse over Tehran's atomic programme. pHawking to float in zero-gravity flight
US: For almost four decades, astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has studied black holes, exploding stars and the origin of the universe from the confines of his wheelchair. pEstonian removal of war memorial angers Russians
ESTONIA: Estonia deployed riot police to guard excavation work at a Soviet war memorial yesterday amid fears of violent protest and threats of diplomatic and economic retaliation from Moscow. pGathering clouds of power mania darken future of Rainbow Nation
SOUTH AFRICA: Historian Pádraig O'Malley has written a new book which is highly critical of the ANC. He speaks to Joe Humphreys in Johannesburg pDarfur needs political deal, says UN chief
SUDAN: Any number of international peacekeeping forces will make little difference to Darfur's thousands of displaced people unless there is a peace deal to protect them, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. pSpector's lawyer says police approached case 'with murder on their minds'
US: Hours before her death from a single gunshot wound in the mouth, the actor Lana Clarkson watched a recording of Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, a James Cagney film, with music legend Phil Spector, who is on trial for her murder. pIn short
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