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Burma crackdown amid world protests
Burma: Soldiers and police in Burma, who were
deployed across Rangoon yesterday, appeared to have gained the
upper hand as the number of protesters dwindled in the face of the
previous day's furious onslaught by the security forces. p
Kosovo dispute grinds on as talks stall
Serbia: Landmark talks between Serbian leaders and ethnic Albanian officials from Kosovo ended yesterday with little progress in the dispute over the future status of the breakaway province. p
First US combat troops withdraw from Iraq
Iraq: The first US military unit scheduled to
withdraw from Iraq under President George W Bush's plan to cut
troop levels has left the war zone. p
Other World Stories
Brown raises the stakes for election gamble
Britain: The electorate may soon be invited to bury what remains of Blair's government, argues Frank Millar , London Editor. p'I am losing hope. After such a joyful beginning'
Burma: A 39-year-old Burmese man who has taken part in this week's protests in Rangoon speaks on condition of anonymity: pJapan asks for truth about killing of journalist
Japan: Japan will decide whether to suspend humanitarian aid to Burma after investigating the killing of a Japanese photographer during anti-government protests, the chief cabinet secretary said yesterday. pCroat fury at mild penalties for massacre
Croatia: Croatia reacted with fury yesterday to the verdicts handed down to three Serbs charged over the massacre of more than 260 Croats at Vukovar in 1991. pMaliki rejects US Senate resolution on country's partition
Iraq: Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki yesterday rejected a US Senate resolution proposing the division of Iraq into autonomous Shia, Sunni and Kurdish regions. pMusharraf cleared to stand
Pakistan: Pakistan's supreme court has cleared the way for President Pervez Musharraf to seek another five-year term by throwing out a major legal challenge to his controversial re-election plans. pBush calls for new climate strategy
United States: US president George Bush has told the world's biggest polluters that it is time for a new approach to climate change, one that is focused on goals rather than mandatory cuts in greenhouse gas emissions. pRecord cocaine intake in Europe
Portugal: More Europeans are using cocaine following a sharp fall in the street price, the head of the European Union's drugs agency said. pBluetongue virus confirmed in UK
Britain: Britain's deputy chief veterinary officer yesterday confirmed an outbreak of bluetongue livestock virus in England, the second major cattle disease to hit the country this year. pRed Cross reports significant increase in African floods
Central Africa: The Red Cross has reported an eight-fold increase in floods in Africa over the past three years, blaming climate change for a wave of recent disasters across the continent. pRice in China dated to 8,000 years ago
China: New research shows that China's staple food, rice, has been cultivated in the country for a lot longer than previously thought - Stone Age man in eastern China planted rice in paddy fields 7,750 years ago. pDrinker survives fall down chimney
Germany: A German man who had been drinking heavily at Munich's Oktoberfest beer festival got stuck in a chimney for 12 hours while trying to climb into a friend's apartment, police said yesterday. pCourt ruling on lethal injections puts stay on execution
America : Thomas Arthur may have greeted the day more warmly than usual yesterday morning because, just 24 hours earlier, he thought he would be dead, writes Denis Staunton . pIn Short
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