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Putin visit gives Iran a morale boost in struggle with West
IRAN: Russia's president Vladimir Putin gave Iran's
leaders a public morale boost in their nuclear dispute with the
West yesterday by issuing a veiled warning to the US not to resort
to military strikes over the issue. p
Clinton amasses $50m campaign war chest
US: Hillary Clinton has overtaken Democratic rival
Barack Obama in fundraising as well as opinion polls for the first
time this year, with almost $35 million (€24.7 million) to
fight the primaries and a further $16 million earmarked for the
presidential election if she becomes her party's nominee. p
Iraq incursion could be scenario for coup
Inside Turkey Mumtaz Soysal, leader of the Party of the Independent Republic, provides an insight into a tense power struggle between the military and government. p
Campbell was treated shabbily, allies claim
BRITAIN: An expected Commons confrontation later today with David Cameron over his refusal of an EU treaty referendum is likely to set the stage for Gordon Brown's prime ministerial debut at the European summit in Lisbon tomorrow. p
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Bush defies Chinese anger with Dalai Lama meeting
US: President George Bush yesterday welcomed the Dalai Lama to the White House, ignoring Chinese warnings that the meeting could damage relations between Washington and Beijing. The meeting took place, however, in the president's residential quarters rather than the Oval Office and, in deference to Chinese sensitivities, the White House excluded the media and did not release a photograph. pMenezes had taken cocaine, court told
BRITAIN: Traces of cocaine were found in Jean Charles de Menezes after he was shot dead by British firearms officers, a court heard yesterday. pItalian centre-left coalesces in mass party
ITALY: As was widely anticipated, Rome mayor Walter Veltroni has won a landslide victory in Sunday's primary-style vote held to determine the leadership of Italy's new centre-left Partito Democratico (PD). Mr Veltroni polled more than 75 per cent of the votes cast by some 3.4 million voters, who each paid one euro for the chance to elect the new leader. pCongress provides reminder of how Chinese power structure operates
CHINA: It was very much business as usual as China's communist elite set about choosing a new generation of leaders and reinforcing the party's grip on power at the high-profile 17th congress in Beijing yesterday. pArgentina's lady in waiting evokes spirit of Evita
ARGENTINA: There is nothing but praise, mingling with awe for Cristina Fernández Kirchner, the woman expected to be the next president, writes Jude Webber in Santa Fe, Argentina pSpanish warship boards treasure-hunter
SPAIN: A Spanish warship forced a US treasure-hunting vessel back into port at gunpoint yesterday as it tried to leave Gibraltar, in the latest episode in a battle over what is claimed to be the world's largest recovery of treasure from the sea. pIn Short
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