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  • Darfur mission 'at risk' due to lack of helicopters

    SUDAN: An international peacekeeping mission to Darfur will fail unless donor countries come forward with desperately needed helicopters, according to the man who will command the 26,000-strong force. p

  • Bush to survey disaster area as wildfires force mass evacuations

    Firefighters sleep by the roadside after fighting fires in Lake Hodges, near San Diego, California, yesterday. Relentless wildfires raged into a fourth day yesterday, forcing the largest evacuations in California's modern history. US: US president George Bush will visit California today to view the impact of four days of wildfires that have prompted the biggest evacuation in the state's history. Earlier this week, the White House said Mr Bush would stay away from the disaster area to avoid hampering the emergency response. p

  • Kirchners set for power transfer

    ARGENTINA: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: front-runner gets up close and personal Argentina's government is throwing state resources behind its candidate - the president's wife, writes Tom Hennigan p
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  • Satellite images show possible Syrian reactor

    SYRIA: Independent experts have pinpointed what they believe to be the Euphrates river site in Syria that was bombed by Israel last month, and satellite imagery of the area shows buildings under construction roughly similar in design to a North Korean reactor capable of producing nuclear material for one bomb a year, the experts say. p

  • Leader urges continuing pressure on Burma junta

    BURMA: The Burmese prime minister in exile has urged the international community to continue pressuring Burma's military junta, saying the country is in "a state of fear" following the regime's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests. p

  • Cubans must see beyond Castro, says Bush

    CUBA: President George Bush has urged the international community to look past Fidel Castro's rule and help Cubans prepare for a new democracy after communism. p

  • Bishops deny Padre Pio faked stigmata

    IRELAND: Suggestions in a new book that the saint Padre Pio faked his stigmata through the use of carbolic acid on his hands have been dismissed by a spokesman for Ireland's Catholic bishops. p

  • Bin Laden urges jihad in Sudan

    SUDAN: Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has called for Muslims in Sudan to wage "Jihad" against peacekeeping forces in the country. He urged "people of Islam" in the state and surrounding areas to attack the combined United Nations-African Union peacekeeping force to remove them. p

  • Mother accused of handing son to Mafia to be murdered

    ITALY: A 57-year-old woman was in jail in Sicily last night accused of handing over her son to the Mafia to be murdered. Her daughter was also in custody, accused of the same offence. Police said they attended the mobsters' "summit" at which his fate was planned. p

  • Amnesty accuses Hamas, Fatah of rights abuses

    MIDDLE EAST: Amnesty International yesterday issued a report sharply critical of Hamas and Fatah for violating Palestinian human rights. p

  • Polish PM blames defeat on dark forces

    POLAND: Polish prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has hit out at the jubilant reaction across Europe to his election defeat last weekend. p

  • Victims put pressure on Erdogan to go after PKK

    TURKEY: The office of the Turkish Veterans, Martyrs, Widows and Orphans Association is a good place to understand the pressure building up on prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to send the army into northern Iraq. p

  • Developments in Turkey's geographic, political and economic core reflect the country's changing policies

    TURKEY: Kayseri, in central Turkey, is Abdullah Gul's birthplace. But it is also famous for the industrialists who have made it one of the richest places in the country p

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