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  • Two die as gales spread wildfires

    Wildfires destroy dozens of houses near Fallbrook, California, yesterday. Santa Ana winds are pushing through southern California, driving numerous major wildfires into communities surrounded by native chaparral habitat and burning hundreds of homes US: More than half a million people have been told to leave their homes in California as scorching, gale-force winds whipped up wildfires in an area stretching from the Mexican border to Santa Barbara. p

  • Four drown while trying to save children off Portuguese coast

    PORTUGAL: Four British children and one German child were yesterday coming to terms with tragedy after powerful currents off southern Portugal left two of them without both their parents, two without their mother and another without a father. p
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  • Civilians killed in US air strike

    IRAQ: The US military said it killed 11 people in a helicopter attack on a group of men seen planting a roadside bomb north of Baghdad yesterday, but police and residents said the dead were farmers, women and children. p

  • Iran could strike at Europe, warns Bush

    US: President George Bush has described the need for a missile defence system in Europe as "real and urgent", warning that some European countries could soon be vulnerable to attack from Iran. p

  • Matron at Oprah Winfrey school in South Africa accused of abuse

    SOUTH AFRICA: Fresh details have emerged surrounding the suspension of an employee at Oprah Winfrey's plush Leadership Academy for Girls in South Africa. p

  • Iraq bans PKK to avert Turkish incursion

    IRAQ: Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's prime minister, yesterday ordered the closure of the operation of the PKK Kurdish separatist group in his country in an attempt to prevent a Turkish military incursion across the border. p

  • Mafia is Italy's biggest company - report

    ITALY: "Mafia Inc" is Italy's biggest company. With revenue that comes from extortion, loan-sharking, burglary, theft, counterfeiting, contraband, kickbacks and control of public-contracts, Italian organised crime has an estimated annual turnover of €90 billion, or 7 per cent of Italian GDP. p

  • Ahmadinejad signals lack of interest in nuclear talks

    IRAN: Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday said Tehran had no need for negotiations over its nuclear programme, indicating a lack of interest in the round of discussions between Iranian officials and Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief. p

  • EU proposes 'blue card' to attract skilled workers

    EU: The European Commission yesterday proposed setting up the equivalent of the US green card to attract much-needed highly skilled workers to the EU. p

  • Mother missing since girl's fall in Mallorca

    SPAIN: Spanish police were yesterday continuing the search for a British woman who disappeared after her seven-year-old daughter was severely injured in a fall from a fifth-floor hotel balcony in Mallorca. p

  • Macho domestic violence still persists in Europe

    Letter from Rome: Last Wednesday, I thought a lot about "Mary". There was a major news item from Reggio Emilia, up near Bologna, that troubled me. It concerned a 40-year-old Albanian, Klirim Fejzo, who had shot and killed his wife, Vyosa, in court that day. p

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