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  • Bush meets victims of Californian wildfires

    George Bush tours a home destroyed by wildfires around San Diego, California, yesterday US: As improving weather conditions raised hopes that the worst of the Californian wildfires may be over, President George Bush flew in to view the devastation from the air and meet firefighters and householders affected by the blazes. Denis Staunton , Washington Correspondent, reports. p

  • Turkey is running out of patience, warns Gul

    TURKEY: President Abdullah Gul warned Kurdish rebels yesterday that Turkey's patience was running out after Turkish forces said they had repelled a guerrilla attack near the Iraqi border, writes  Evren Mesci in Ankara p

  • Suu Kyi holds talks with Burmese junta

    BURMA: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's detained Nobel Prize-winning democracy advocate, held talks yesterday with a senior member of the ruling junta as the military regime sought to deflect criticism of their crackdown on Buddhist monks and civilian protesters last month. p
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  • 'I'm glad I stayed because I saved my house'

    US: As the wildfires swept through California's residential areas, some people defied evacuation orders, writes Denis Staunton p

  • US targets Iran's elite forces with tough new sanctions

    US: The Bush administration has announced tough new sanctions against Iran, declaring that the elite Quds division of the Revolutionary Guards Corps supports terrorism and accusing the entire corps of proliferating weapons of mass destruction. p

  • US offers payments to Blackwater victims

    IRAQ: The US embassy in Baghdad has begun offering tens of thousands of dollars in payments to the victims of the September 16th shootings in Baghdad involving Blackwater Worldwide security guards, say relatives and US officials. p

  • Brown pledges to extend civil liberties

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Gordon Brown sought to regain the political initiative yesterday with a renewed promise of "a new British constitutional settlement" and a national consultation about a Bill of rights and duties pointing the UK towards a written constitution. Frank Millar , London Editor, reports. p

  • Kaczynski gives top role to senator who doubts Holocaust

    POLAND: Polish president Lech Kaczynski has put himself on a collision course with the country's new government after appointing to a senior parliamentary post a man who has questioned details of the Holocaust. p

  • Playboy (77) sues 19-year-old who spurned him

    GERMANY: A 77-year-old Berlin playboy is suing a 19-year-old woman, accusing her of age discrimination for refusing to sleep with him. Derek Scally in Berlin p

  • Environment woes threaten survival of humans, says UN

    UN: A failure to address major problems faced by the planet including climate change, extinction of species and unsustainable development could threaten the survival of humanity, a UN report warned yesterday. p

  • Feminist writer says Egyptian poverty and corruption rising

    EGYPT: For decades Nawal El Saadawi has been a thorn in the side of Egypt's political and religious establishment. One of the Arab world's most prominent feminists, her tireless campaigning against the veil, polygamy and female circumcision has led to official opprobrium, a spell in jail and death threats, writes Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent p

  • UN warns Lebanese factions against rearming

    UN: UN secretary general Ban Ki-Moon has warned Lebanese factions against rearming and training militias and urged them to end a year-long political deadlock by agreeing on a candidate for president. p

  • Israel to retaliate for attacks by cutting Gaza's power supply

    ISRAEL: Defence minister Ehud Barak yesterday approved a plan whereby Israel will gradually begin reducing the supply of electricity and fuel to the Gaza Strip in a bid to halt the firing of rockets by militants. p

  • Islam is compatible with Western society, says imam

    IRELAND: Exiled radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed delivered a pre-recorded video message to a packed house at Trinity College Dublin last night as part of a debate on Islam's compatibility with Western liberal society. p

  • Darfur kidnap is latest blow to peace talks

    SUDAN: Darfuri rebels yesterday said they had captured two foreign oil workers after attacking a Chinese installation in the neighbouring region of Kordofan. p

  • Nato to scale back reaction force

    NATO: Nato defence ministers agreed yesterday to scale down the alliance's ambition to keep a 25,000-strong rapid reaction force on standby, ready to intervene in crises around the world. p

  • In Short

    A round-up of today's other stories in brief. p
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