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  • Car bombs put terror at top of Brown's agenda

    A policeman stands at a cordon in a street near Park Lane, London. Officers defused a car bomb nearby early yesterday and said the device made up of petrol, gas cylinders and nails could have caused significant loss of life. BRITAIN: Terror cast its shadow over the second meeting of Gordon Brown's new cabinet yesterday after police foiled the first of two car bomb attacks that would have brought "carnage" to the streets of London's West End. p

  • Ruling in US on school race issue criticised

    Billy Ray and Uraina Smith said they moved out of their local subdivision in Gainesville, Georgia because the neighbourhood had been overrun by misbehaving immigrants. US: Civil rights activists, educators and Democratic politicians have condemned a supreme court ruling that schools cannot use a student's race as a criterion for ensuring diversity in schools. In a five to four vote, the court outlawed schemes in Seattle and Louisville, Kentucky, aimed at ensuring that schools do not "re-segregate" on racial lines. p
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  • Key elements resonate with two previous Islamist plots

    BRITAIN: The methodology and the type of target in the latest incidents are not new, writes Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent p

  • Two vehicles 'clearly linked'

    BRITAIN: The head of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism command,Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, said the two vehicles found containing bombs in London yesterday were "clearly linked" and both were "potentially viable". p

  • Red Cross committee denounces abuses in Myanmar

    MYANMAR: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) yesterday accused Myanmar's ruling junta of committing serious abuses against detainees and civilians in a rare public censure from the humanitarian agency. p

  • Turkey ready to dislodge terrorist Kurds in Iraq

    TURKEY: Turkey has prepared a blueprint for the invasion of northern Iraq and will take action if US or Iraqi forces fail to dislodge the guerrillas of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from their mountain strongholds across the border, Turkey's foreign minister Abdullah Gul has warned. p

  • Military action would hurt harmonious trade relations

    TURKEY: There is growing co-operation between Turks and Kurds despite political tensions, writes Nick Birch p

  • Uribe says Farc killed politicians

    COLOMBIA: Colombian president Alvaro Uribe accused leftist rebels on Thursday of murdering 11 kidnapped politicians last week, after the guerrillas said they had been killed during a raid on their secret jungle prison. p

  • Brown appoints ex-police chief and industry leader

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Gordon Brown revealed his promised non-Labour Party appointments yesterday as he put the finishing touches to the ministerial line-up in his "new" government. p

  • Fugitive Karadzic's house searched

    SERBIA: Nato and European Union soldiers yesterday raided the house of the wife of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, looking for traces of him and the network supporting him. Karadzic, Bosnian Serb leader in the 1992-95 war in which some 100,000 people were killed, and who is wanted on charges of genocide by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, has been on the run for 10 years. "We are looking for items of interest to ICTY and for information about Karadzic's support network," Nato spokesman Derek Chappell said. p

  • Immigration alarms middle America

    US: Shifting patterns of settlement helped raised passions over immigration, writes NC Aizenman in Gainesville, Georgia p

  • Presenter makes news refusing to read Paris Hilton story

    US: A US television news presenter refused to lead her bulletin with the latest Paris Hilton story, then shredded and attempted to set fire to the script on air. p

  • Pet lovers hound Republican over Irish setter's rough ride

    US: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney may have to kiss goodbye to the dog-loving vote after it emerged that he once strapped Seamus, his family's Irish setter, to the roof of his car for a 12-hour trip more than 20 years ago. p

  • Opponents rue efficiency of Cheney's mysterious ways

    America Letter: While the Senate was killing off comprehensive immigration reform this week, the House of Representatives was debating a proposal to cut off funding for Dick Cheney's office, home, transport and entertainment expenses. p

  • In short

    Today's other stories in brief p
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