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  • Inspectors to verify N Korean nuclear shutdown

    NORTH KOREA: The UN nuclear watchdog's governing body agreed yesterday to send monitors to North Korea to verify a shutdown of its atomic bomb programme, launching what is likely to be a long and arduous disarmament process. p

  • Bush uses privilege to block testimony

    President George Bush at the White House Conference on the Americas, yesterday, in Arlington, Virginia. Last month, he asserted executive privilege in refusing to and over to Congress White House records related to the firing last year of nine federal prosecutors. US: President George Bush has escalated a showdown with Congress over presidential power by blocking the testimony of two former White House aides about the controversial firing last year of nine federal prosecutors. p
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  • Russia declassifies files on Stalin victims

    RUSSIA: Files on millions of victims of Stalinist repression, including those who perished in the Soviet Union's infamous gulags, have been declassified, Russia's federal security service announced yesterday. p

  • Tunnel-digging in Iran stokes US worries

    US: The sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a mountainside in central Iran might have passed for ordinary road tunnelling. But the site is the back yard of Iran's most ambitious and controversial nuclear facility, leading US officials and independent experts to reach another conclusion: it appears to be the start of a major tunnel complex inside the mountain. p

  • Four convicted of London Tube, bus bomb plot

    BRITAIN: Four men have been convicted of plotting to bomb London's transport system on July 21st, 2005, in a botched attempt to replicate Islamist suicide bombings that had killed 52 people two weeks earlier. p

  • Ethiopian prosecutors seek death penalty for opposition MPs

    ETHIOPIA: Ethiopian prosecutors have called for the death penalty for 38 opposition politicians and activists convicted of inciting violence following disputed general elections two years ago. p

  • 'Last chance' talks draw blankas mosque stand-off drags on

    PAKISTAN: Attempts to negotiate an end to a bloody stand-off at a Pakistani mosque failed to make progress yesterday, a day after authorities gave Islamist militants inside a "final warning" to surrender. p

  • Fine for BBC over fake 'Blue Peter' phone-in

    BRITAIN: The BBC was ordered to pay an unprecedented £50,000 fine yesterday over a faked phone-in contest on its flagship children's TV show. p

  • Call on Montenegrins to step up hunt for fugitives

    MONTENEGRO: The UN's chief war crimes prosecutor urged Montenegro yesterday to intensify its hunt for fugitives such as Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, three weeks after a wanted Serbian police general was discovered living quietly in a popular seaside resort. p

  • High-rise gardeners turning Asia green

    CHINA: Gardeners across the Far East are taking up trowels and pruning shears and digging for an environmental revolution, writes Clifford Coonan in Singapore and Beijing p

  • Nasa spacecraft to dig into icy Martian surface

    US: Nasa is set to launch a robotic spacecraft next month that will dig into the soil near the northern pole of Mars to check for conditions favourable to microbial life now or in the planet's past. p

  • French left fears trap as Sarkozy poaches its big beasts

    FRANCE: President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Brussels yesterday to defend France's budget deficits in the eurogroup and to campaign for the former socialist finance minister Dominique Strauss-Kahn to be Europe's candidate for the post of managing director of the International Monetary Fund. p

  • Scientists put EU in dock over failure to save fish stocks

    European Diary: Sergei Petrov drags the net from the water and lets its contents spill out over the deck. He has dragged about 300 fish up from the depths of the Atlantic, about 70 miles off the coast of Portugal. As they begin flapping around the 9m Portuguese fishing boat Success, the 43-year-old Russian fisherman begins plucking the edible species from the pile. p

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