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  • At least 5 youths killed in Wisconsin shooting

    US: A part-time police officer in Wisconsin killed at least five young people in a shooting rampage that sparked a manhunt that ended in his own death. An undetermined number of people were also injured in the shooting spree, writes Denis Staunton , Washington Correspondent. p

  • Violence shocks Switzerland as extremists disrupt far-right rally

    Riot police using water cannons against left-wing demonstrators in Berne SWITZERLAND: The Swiss capital of Berne was turned into a battle zone at the weekend when left-wing radicals seized control of the main square outside parliament, routing the main far-right political party two weeks before a general election and catching the Swiss police off guard, writes Ian Traynor in Berne. p

  • Gun battles in tribal belt follow Musharraf victory

    PAKISTAN: Gun battles raged in Pakistan's tribal belt yesterday as the political system was thrust into limbo after the controversial election victory on Saturday of the president, Pervez Musharraf, writes Declan Walsh in Islamabad. p
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  • Brown took people for fools, says Cameron

    UK: David Cameron has accused Gordon Brown of "treating the British people as fools" and "not being straight" with them about the reason for his decision not to call a general election, writes Frank Millar , London Editor. p

  • Allegation of election cynicism may stick

    UK: Brown's lonely decision to postpone calling an election came after a disappointing poll, writes Frank Millar . p

  • 9/11 has led to an erosion of human rights, law professor tells conference

    CANADA: Security measures in the "post 9/11" years have contributed to a backlash against human rights and equality issues, according to Canadian law professor and international human rights expert Kathleen Mahoney, writes Lorna Siggins , Western Correspondent. p

  • Yu Nakajima (16) crowned Rubik's Cube champion

    BUDAPEST: Japan's Yu Nakajima (16) won yesterday's World Rubik's Cube championship in Budapest, where Hungarian professor Erno Rubik invented the puzzle more than a quarter of a century ago, writes Daniel McLaughlin in Budapest. p

  • Human rights abuses continue, says lawyer

    TURKEY: Although Turkey has changed more than 50 laws relating to human rights, the bureaucracy of justice continues to resist change, writes Lara Marlowe . p

  • 'We've been cops for 15 years.Nobody can touch us'

    TURKEY: In his job as a lawyer, Muammer Oz had often heard stories of Turkish police brutality. "But I didn't think it could happen to me, in the biggest city in Turkey, in one of the most fashionable neighbourhoods of Istanbul." Lawyer Muammer Oz tells Lara Marlowe how he was beaten by policemen. p

  • Status of illegals should be regularised, says expert

    EU: Kinder policies towards illegal arrivals can help avert future problems, a migration expert tells Ruadhán Mac Cormaic , Migration Correspondent. p

  • Two main Shia factions agree on truce

    IRAQ: Rival clerics Muqtada al-Sadr and Abdel Aziz al-Hakim agreed to a truce on Saturday with the aim of ending months of violence between Iraq's two largest Shia factions, writes Michael Jansen . p

  • China's east coast battered by typhoon

    CHINA: The deadly typhoon Krosa hit China's eastern coast hard yesterday with heavy rain and high winds forcing 1.4 million people to evacuate their homes, after killing five in the neighbouring island of Taiwan, writes Clifford Coonan in China. p

  • 23 illegal miners killed in S Africa

    SOUTH AFRICA: Police in South Africa revealed yesterday that 23 miners working illegally in the country's central mining region were killed last week in an underground fire, writes Joe Humphreys in Johannesburg. p

  • Ironically, the space race made us long for Mother Earth

    OPINION: Fifty years ago this week, America was shaken out of technological complacency by a beeping 180-pound aluminium ball orbiting overhead. Sputnik was a shock because we had always assumed that Russia was nothing but a big, lumbering and all-brawn bear, writes Charles Krauthammer . p

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