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At least 115 killed in attack on Bhutto homecoming convoy
Pakistan: Two explosions hit former Pakistani prime
minister Benazir Bhutto's convoy yesterday, killing up to 89 people
as she returned to Pakistan from eight years in self-imposed
exile. p
Deal on EU reform treaty expected today
EU: European leaders edged closer to agreeing the EU reform treaty last night despite last-minute reservations expressed by both Poland and Italy on aspects of the deal. p
Iraq dismisses Turkish threat
Iraq: Iraq's foreign minister yesterday played down
fears that Turkey might invade northern Iraq while stressing that
his government was "not comfortable" with a vote in Ankara's
parliament on Wednesday giving its military the green light to hunt
members of the Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) in Iraq. p
Burma's protest movement far from finished
Burma: Monks and civilians have paid a heavy price
since September's demonstrations, writes a Special Correspondent in
Mandalay, Burma. p
Other World Stories
MPs to investigate claims of CIA jail on British territory
Britain: Allegations that the CIA held al-Qaeda suspects for interrogation at a secret prison on sovereign British territory are to be investigated by British MPs. pRussia rejects December deadline for Kosovo deal
Russia: Russia has rejected any deadline for talks on the status of Kosovo, amid Serb claims that the United States is blocking a compromise deal on the province's bid for independence. pKaczynski accused of using smear tactics
Poland: Poland's liberal opposition, with a slim poll lead ahead of Sunday's general election, has accused the ruling national conservatives of using smear tactics to influence the outcome. pWorkers to benefit under Charter of Fundamental Rights
EU: Irish workers may benefit from new rights if the reform treaty is ratified, John Monks, general secretary of the European Confederation of Trade Unions, said. pPolice chief 'told five times' de Menezes was suspect
Britain: The London police chief who gave the order that led to Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes being shot dead in a London subway train carriage said yesterday that she was told five times that surveillance officers believed the man they were following was a terrorist suspect. pReform and religion key issues at China's congress
China: Deliberations about the future leadership at the 17th National Congress of China's ruling Communist Party are being held in secret, but the five-yearly gathering is yielding valuable insights on key issues, including democratic reform, religion and attitudes to Taiwan. pStrike causes transport chaos
France: Nicolas Sarkozy faced his first major showdown with France's powerful trade unions yesterday as a 24-hour strike over pension reform caused transport chaos. pLeft accuses Sarkozy of using his divorce as a diversion
France: Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife, Cécilia, announced their divorce yesterday, ending an 11-year marriage which had become a national soap opera and blurred France's strict boundaries between public and private life. pElephants able to sniff out friends or foes, study finds
Kenya: Elephants can literally smell danger, according to a study published yesterday that shows the animals can sniff out whether humans are friends or foes. pSydney shocked by child-in-case murder
Australia : The murder of a young boy whose body was stuffed in a suitcase and thrown into a lake in a Sydney park has shocked Australia's biggest city. pSupreme Court halts execution in Virginia
United States: The United States Supreme Court has halted an execution in Virginia, and two other states have postponed executions planned for next month, in what legal experts described as a de facto moratorium on the use of the lethal injection. pDeborah Kerr (86), class act of cinema's golden age, dies
Britain: Deborah Kerr, the Scottish-born Hollywood actor who melted the heart of Yul Brynner in The King and I , all but broke that of Cary Grant in An Affair to Remember , and positively singed the screen with her passionate kiss in the surf with Burt Lancaster in From Here to Eternity , has died in England at the age of 86. pWoolmer died of heart disease - pathologist
Jamaica: Heart disease was the probable cause of death of Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer during last spring's Cricket World Cup, a British pathologist said yesterday. pIn Short
A roundup of today's other world stories in brief: p
