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  • Tehran expanding nuclear activity, says UN

    US WARSHIPS SAIL INTO GULF: American warships carrying 17,000 personnel enter the Gulf in a show of force off Iran's coast. IRAN:  The UN nuclear watchdog said yesterday that Iran was flouting international demands and expanding a uranium enrichment programme the West suspects is aimed at nuclear arms production. p

  • Furore over British plan to expand nuclear power

    BRITAIN: Britain's environmentalists joined furious battle with the Labour government yesterday as ministers moved remorselessly toward approving a new generation of nuclear power stations to secure the UK's future energy needs. p

  • Ex-paramilitaries guilty of Djindjic murder in Serbia

    Zvezdan Jovanovic, one of the ex-members of the Red Berets unit established by former Serb leader Slobodan Milosevic, who was sentenced yesterday to a 40-year jail term. SERBIA: Two former Serb paramilitaries and 10 accomplices were found guilty yesterday of the murder in 2003 of prime minister Zoran Djindjic, but supporters of the slain reformist demanded that the hunt continue for the people who ordered the assassination. Daniel McLaughlin reports. p
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  • Sarkozy set to force Turkey debate in EU

    FRANCE: French president Nicolas Sarkozy is to force a debate in the coming months over whether Turkey belongs in the European Union, despite visible reluctance by the European Commission to confront the issue. p

  • Jealousy the spur for Royal, book claims

    FRANCE: As any journalist knows, the secret motivations of politicians are choice ingredients for a book. p

  • 'Le Monde' journalists vote to oust director

    FRANCE: The future of Le Monde newspaper has been plunged into uncertainty following a vote by journalists to oust its director, Jean-Marie Colombani, whose name had become synonymous with the influential but loss-making journal. p

  • Army to enter Lebanon refugee camp

    LEBANON: A tense calm hung over the Nahr al-Bared refugee camp in northern Lebanon yesterday, with residents struggling through their fourth day without either electricity or water as the army prepared to breach the camp, ordering everyone to leave or risk harm in the impending showdown. p

  • Chief Iraqi players preparing for a US pull-out in next two years

    IRAQ: Shifts are taking place on Iraq's political stage as Iran broadens its client base, writes Michael Jansen p

  • US soldier's body found

    IRAQ: The body of one of three US soldiers kidnapped in Iraq two weeks ago was found yesterday in the Euphrates river, say Iraqi police. p

  • Pelosi to oppose Democrats' Bill

    US: Democrats in Congress have abandoned an attempt to link funding for the war in Iraq to a timetable for withdrawal and will today vote on a plan to fund the war until the end of September. As Republicans celebrated what they described as a Democratic capitulation on the war, House speaker Nancy Pelosi said she would vote against her own party's Bill. p

  • Ireland should be concerned, says CND

    IRELAND: The Irish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) has said British suggestions that nuclear power could be a solution to global warming do not address the realities of nuclear processing. p

  • EU to drop cross-border 'hot pursuit' policing proposal

    EU: EU justice ministers are expected to drop plans next month to allow police forces to cross national borders to prevent loss of life due to sensitivities over Northern Ireland. p

  • Portugal police question couple again

    PORTUGAL: Portuguese police yesterday reinterviewed two people in the case of the missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann as her parents travelled to the country's holiest shrine, at Fatima, to pray for her safe return. p

  • Deported islanders set for long trip home

    BRITAIN: Hundreds of Indian Ocean islanders who were forcibly deported from their homeland by Britain 40 years ago won a battle yesterday that could see them set sail for an emotional return within days. p

  • Ayalon pits his popularity against Barak's experience

    ISRAEL: The two frontrunners for the Labor Party leadership could know their fate as early as next Monday's primary, writes Peter Hirschberg in Jerusalem p

  • In Short

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