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  • UN envoy 'encouraged' by junta's offer of talks with Aung San Suu Kyi

    Kyaw Tint Swe (left), Burmese ambassador to the UN with UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari. BURMA: The United Nations' special envoy to Burma said yesterday he was "cautiously encouraged" by the decision of its military rulers to hold talks with the country's main opposition leader, but anti-regime activists dismissed the conditional offer as an attempt to dupe the international community. p

  • Moves under way for historic meeting of churches

    Pope Benedict: no pope has met a Russian Patriarch RUSSIA: A senior figure in the Russian Orthodox Church has indicated that significant progress has been made towards a historic first meeting between Patriarch Alexiy II and Pope Benedict XVI. p
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  • Normality returning to Burma - but only on the surface

    BURMA: The numbers of dead, injured, missing and detained are impossible to verify, and detentions are continuing, writes a Special Correspondent in Rangoon p

  • Concern over aid distribution

    BURMA: Aid projects are running normally in Burma, but there is concern over the reactivation of a regulation banning gatherings of over five people, said Bernard Delpeuch, head of the European Commission's Humanitarian Aid Office (Echo) in Rangoon. p

  • Lead for Poland's ruling party rises

    POLAND: The party of Poland's ruling Kaczynski twins is widening its lead ahead of an early election, boosting their chances of keeping a strong hold on power in the former communist country, opinion polls showed yesterday. p

  • Court ruling leads to fresh confusion over Musharraf's political future

    PAKISTAN: Pakistan's supreme court kept Gen Pervez Musharraf on tenterhooks yesterday by allowing him to contest today's presidential election but denying him a widely expected victory. p

  • Spaniards drop taboo about criticising royals

    SPAIN: King Juan Carlos has been forced to defend himself and his family, writes Jane Walker in Madrid p

  • Pinochet's widow, children arrested

    CHILE: A judge has ordered the arrest of the widow and five children of Chile's former military dictator, Augusto Pinochet, on corruption charges stemming from more than $20 million (€14.15 million) found in Pinochet's US bank accounts. p

  • Asmal criticises South Africa over Zimbabwe

    SOUTH AFRICA: Former South African cabinet minister Kader Asmal has taken his country to task for failing to campaign against human rights abuses in neighbouring Zimbabwe. p

  • Saudi legal reforms welcomed

    MIDDLE EAST: Saudi officials, lawyers and reformers have welcomed a major restructuring of the kingdom's justice system decreed this week by King Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz. p

  • Craig insists he will stay in Senate

    US: Republican senator Larry Craig says he wants to stay in the Senate until 2009, despite a judge's rejection of his attempt to change a plea of guilty to disorderly conduct in a men's room at Minneapolis airport. p

  • Prince complains of paparazzi chase

    BRITAIN: Britain's Prince William complained yesterday that paparazzi chased him on motorbikes and in cars as he left a nightclub, days after an inquest opened into his mother's death in a high-speed crash. p

  • Clinton cackle irrelevant if Hillary has last laugh

    America Letter: Hillary Clinton may be far ahead of her Democratic rivals in the polls after launching a new plan for universal health care and taking contested positions on US policy towards Iraq and Iran. In parts of Washington, however, the talk over the past two weeks has been less about Clinton's policies or poll numbers than about her laugh - a loud guffaw critics claim she uses to deflect tough questions. p

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