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  • Fatah threatens to quit coalition as strife worsens

    Palestinian Hamas militants take up position during clashes with members of the Fatah security forces in southern Gaza yesterday. MIDDLE EAST: Fatah threatened yesterday to quit the Palestinian government after forces loyal to its Hamas coalition partner seized a number of Fatah-controlled security posts in the Gaza Strip and ordered others to surrender. p

  • Bush pursues immigration reform

    US: President George W Bush has acknowledged that he faces a formidable challenge in persuading Republicans to back an immigration reform plan which would allow most illegal immigrants, including thousands of Irish citizens, to remain in the US legally. p

  • Barroso pleads for compromise on constitution

    European Commission president José Manuel Barroso, speaking in Brussels yesterday. Mr Barroso warned that failure to agree on the constitution could result in a 'Europe of egoisms and narrow national interests'. EU: European Commission president José Manuel Barroso and German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier have appealed to Poland and Britain to accept a revised version of the EU constitution. p
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  • Debt: resumption of aid urged

    MIDDLE EAST: Palestinians are facing soaring personal debts and three-quarters have nothing left to sell to meet personal needs, aid agency Oxfam said yesterday, urging donors to resume funding. p

  • $54m suit for long-lost trousers

    US: A US judge pressed a $54 million lawsuit yesterday against a dry cleaning shop which he said violated consumer protection laws when it lost his trousers. p

  • Blair assails media for acting like 'feral beasts'

    BRITAIN: British newspapers will and should be subject to some form of new external regulation, the outgoing prime minister, Tony Blair, said yesterday in a broadside that attacked the media for behaving like feral beasts and eschewing balance or proportion. p

  • Spector's DNA not on gun, says expert witness

    US: American record producer Phil Spector's DNA was not found on the gun that killed Lana Clarkson, said an expert, but he suggested it might have been hidden under the large amount of the actress's blood on the weapon. p

  • Chinua Achebe wins Man Booker international prize

    NIGERIA: One of Africa's most enduring writers, Nigerian master Chinua Achebe, has been awarded the second Man Booker International Prize for fiction. p

  • Gallery takes a grand tour of the London streets

    BRITAIN: London's National Gallery has unveiled a summer "Grand Tour", extending itself on to the streets of the capital by placing some 30 full-size reproductions from its permanent collection in unusual and unexpected places. p

  • Lots of trills the key to pulling birds

    CANADA: The number of different songs a bird can sing is a good indicator of its health, according to a new study. Scientists have found that male sparrows with big song repertoires have larger brains and stronger immune systems and are in overall better shape than their less talented counterparts. p

  • Illegal trade in bear products exposed

    CHINA: At special farms throughout China, over 7,000 bears eke out their lives in tiny cages. Every day their gall bladders are painfully "milked" for bile, which is used in 123 different kinds of traditional Asian medicines. p

  • Millenniums of resilience may not save tribe

    TANZANIA: The Hadzabe face extinction after a deal with a United Arab Emirates royal family, writes Stephanie McCrummen in the Y aeda Valley, Tanzania p

  • Exploding comet may have led to mammoth's end

    US: Scientists are offering a new explanation for the extinction of the woolly mammoth , writes Christopher Lee in Washington p

  • Nato ministers to focus on reducing civilian casualties in Afghanistan

    AFGHANISTAN: Nato defence ministers are shifting the alliance's stance on Afghanistan, placing greater emphasis on the battle for hearts and minds. p

  • Sudan accepts AU-UN hybrid force for Darfur

    SUDAN: Sudan has agreed to the deployment, mandate and structure of a combined United Nations and African Union peacekeeping force for its troubled Darfur region, a senior AU official said yesterday. p

  • Serb rebel leader gets 35-year sentence

    SERBIA: A former policeman who became the leader of the Serbian insurgency in Croatia in the 1991-95 war was sentenced to 35 years' jail yesterday for overseeing the murder of hundreds of elderly people and civilians and bombing a hospital. p

  • Palestinians take pride in renovating historic buildings

    Letter from Jerusalem: Khaled and I walk through Herod's Gate, turn sharply right and climb the shallow steps which lie beside the stone block wall of the Old City. Underfoot are pink, beige and white paving stones polished smooth over the centuries by the feet of thousands of Jerusalemites, visitors and pilgrims navigating the narrow alleyways and crooked streets of the thrice holy city. At its highest point stands the Spafford Children's Centre. p

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