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Turkey retaliates after US vote
TURKEY: Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan met advisers in Istanbul last night to decide on further retaliatory measures against the US. p
Muslim scholars address peace letter to Christians
VATICAN: More than 130 Muslim scholars from around the globe called yesterday for peace and understanding between Islam and Christianity, saying "the very survival of the world itself is perhaps at stake". p
McCartney and Mills fail to reach settlement
BRITAIN: As darkness fell outside the family
division of the high court in London last night, the two
protagonists in Britain's most keenly-watched divorce proceedings
left separately, and in silence. p
Other World Stories
Lessing awarded Nobel Prize in Literature at 88
BRITAIN: Eileen Battersby , Literary Correspondent, profiles the life and works of Doris Lessing pNeo-Nazis in Baltics tolerated by EU, Jewish lobby says
ESTONIA/LATVIA: The European Union is failing to tackle dangerous "neo-Nazi tendencies" in its Baltic states, the head of the European Jewish Congress claimed yesterday. pRomanian minister fired over bribery allegations
ROMANIA: Romania's farm minister was sacked yesterday after being accused of taking bribes and enduring severe criticism from the European Union over the pace of agricultural reform. pRepublic set to lose MEP seat as parliament accepts reform plan
EU: MEPs have voted to accept reform of the distribution of seats at the European Parliament despite threats by Italy to veto the plan. pMcCanns welcome paedophile sex ring inquiry
BRITAIN: Kate and Gerry McCann were said to be "extremely encouraged" yesterday by reports that Portuguese police had infiltrated a paedophile ring. pExtra payments for severely wounded British troops
BRITAIN: Britain announced an increase in payments for severely wounded soldiers yesterday, the latest move to provide more support for troops fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan following public criticism. pDamning report into superbug outbreak
BRITAIN: Appalling hygiene, a shortage of nursing and unacceptable management contributed to outbreaks of a hospital superbug that killed about 90 patients in southeast England, a damning report said yesterday. pFather of CJD victim defends Gummer remarks
BRITAIN: The daughter of a friend of former British agriculture minister John Gummer, who tried to show beef was safe by encouraging his four-year-old child to eat a hamburger, has died from the human form of mad cow disease. pEU funding of €92m to aid neighbourly relations
AZERBAIJAN: Azerbaijan will receive a total of €92 million from the EU under the European Neighbourhood Policy in the three years to 2009. pGod's gift to a strict post-Soviet regime
AZERBAIJAN: Oil and gas have given Azerbaijan the fastest-growing GDP in the world, writes Arthur Beesley in Baku pDiana death inquest jury sees photos of paparazzi at crash
FRANCE: Police mugshots of the paparazzi, taken in the wake of the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, were shown at her inquest yesterday pGates denies plan to move marines to Afghanistan
US: US defence secretary Robert Gates yesterday played down a newspaper report that the US marine corps was pressing to remove its forces from Iraq and switch to a leading role in Afghanistan. pRace-fixing trial told of secret betting accounts
BRITAIN: Miles Rodgers, the leader of the alleged "bet to lose conspiracy", in which champion jockey Kieren Fallon is accused of conspiring to throw races, surreptitiously ran a dozen different accounts at the same online betting exchange, Betfair, under the names of friends, neighbours and family, the jury in the race-fixing trial heard yesterday. pWarning of Palestinian violence if US talks fail
MIDDLE EAST: Palestinian chief negotiator Ahmad Qurei warned yesterday that if the US-sponsored regional summit in November does not provide Palestinians with a clear route to statehood, they could respond with violence. pReliving Dantès's inferno on a voyage to the Château d'If
Letter from Marseilles: The sun had hovered low, a teasing purple plate that eventually dipped into the Marseilles bay. Hungry crowds of Ramadan-observing Muslims emerge, taking nightfall as their cue to break their daylong fast. In homes all over France's second city, they devour couscous and tagines; in simple restaurants they choose steaming bowls of chorba and sip gold-embossed glasses of mint tea. Since morning in the streets off Rue Canebière and around Noailles, Arab butchers had sold halal meat; grocers had weighed out loose semoule and bakers had flicked soft paintbrushes over trays of honey-swimming makroud and baklava cakes to disperse a sticky plague of flies. pIn short
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