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  • Victorious Hamas calls for new talks with Fatah

    Hamas fighters stand over a picture of Palistinian president Mahmoud Abbas in the customs hall after they captured Rafah crossing border between Egypt and the southern Gaza strip yesterday. Photograph:Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters MIDDLE EAST: Jubilant Hamas militants cemented their domination over Gaza yesterday but appeared to make conciliatory overtures to their Fatah opponents after a week of intense fighting that has effectively broken Palestine in two. p

  • Senate leaders agree immigrant Bill revival

    US: Democratic and Republican leaders in the Senate have agreed to revive a stalled Bill that would allow most of an estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States legally. p

  • Poland warned over EU voting demand

    POLAND: The president of the European Parliament, Hans-Gert Pöttering, has warned Poland not to wreck next week's EU summit or it could face a backlash from other states. p
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  • BBC journalist may be freed soon

    MIDDLE EAST: The captors of kidnapped journalist Alan Johnston have promised to release the BBC correspondent within 24 hours, a person close to the negotiations said yesterday. p

  • Israel may ease sanctions in West Bank

    MIDDLE EAST: Israel seemed to be preparing yesterday to ease economic sanctions in the West Bank while planning to keep them in place in Gaza as part of a bid to boost moderate Palestinian leaders and marginalise Hamas, following the Islamic movement's seizure of control in the coastal strip. p

  • Newly-named PM worked in World Bank

    MIDDLE EAST: Salam Fayyad - an economist, MP and former finance minister - is well known in western financial circles following an eight-year stint at the World Bank and six years as the International Monetary Fund's representative to the Palestinian Authority. p

  • Hamas will find they have won a Pyrrhic victory

    MIDDLE EAST: The fighting has divided the Palestinian territories politically as well as militarily and plays into Israel's hands, writes Michael Jansen p

  • Warsaw may lift veto threat if promised talks

    GERMANY: Polish president Lech Kaczynski will lift his threat to veto talks to create a new European treaty if Berlin agrees to put the EU's new voting system back on the discussion table. p

  • Backroom boy plots to put socialists to the sword

    FRANCE: A victory for the right deep in socialist territory would symbolise a rout, writes Lara Marlowe in Périgueux. p

  • Light visible at end of 34km cross-Europe train tunnel

    SWITZERLAND: The world's longest overland tunnel for trains linking Europe's north and south was opened in Switzerland yesterday after eight years of construction. p

  • Jail-bound 'hired help' Libby is 'thrown overboard' by Bush

    US: Lewis "Scooter" Libby, vice-president Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, is heading for prison in the next four to six weeks after he was denied bail pending an appeal against his two and a half year sentence for perjury and obstructing an investigation, writes Denis Staunton p

  • Quartet pledges support to beleaguered Abbas

    MIDDLE EAST: The Quartet of Middle East peace mediators pledged full support to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas yesterday and expressed concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza. p

  • Man convicted for role in 1964 killings

    US: An alleged former Ku Klux Klansman has been convicted of kidnapping and conspiracy in the murders of two black teenagers more than 40 years ago, in a case that could trigger new investigations into more than 100 unpunished killings from the civil rights era. p

  • Hundreds of child slaves discovered in Chinese kilns

    CHINA: Chinese TV viewers have been horrified by the sight of hundreds of children emerging hollow-eyed and emaciated from brick kilns in central China, where they were forced to work as slaves. p

  • Barrymore released without charge in murder inquiry

    ENGLAND: Entertainer Michael Barrymore (55) was last night released by police after being questioned on suspicion of the murder of a man found dead in a swimming pool at his home six years ago. p

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