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  • Putin stirs the ghosts of cold war

    José Manuel Barroso, president of the EU Commission, Russian president Vladimir Putin, Portuguese PM José Socrates and Javier Solana, European Union foreign policy chief, at a news conference after the EU/Russia summit in Mafra, Portugal yesterday. Mr Putin likened the US administration to "a madman running around with a razor blade". EU/Russia Summit : Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, stirred the ghosts of the cold war yesterday by comparing the Pentagon's plan to site elements of its missile shield in Europe to the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, when the US and the Soviet Union went to the brink of nuclear war. p

  • Helicopters and fighter jets pound Kurdish positions

    Demonstrators wave Turkish national flags during a march against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in Ankara yesterday. Public pressure on Turkish authorities to act has grown since rebels killed some 40 soldiers over the last month. Turkey: Turkish helicopters and fighter jets pounded Kurdish rebel positions yesterday as diplomatic efforts got off to a rocky start in Ankara to avert a major offensive against the guerrillas based in northern Iraq. p

  • Californians return home as fires die down

    United States: Thousands of Californians returned to their homes yesterday as firefighters reported progress in battling wildfires near San Diego, but a fire in Orange County, which is believed to have been started deliberately, remained out of control. p
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  • Flagging SPD changes direction in Germany

    Germany: Germany's Social Democratic Party will adopt a new party programme today, promising to reverse its shift to the political centre and abandoning key social reforms of the Schröder era. p

  • Kostunica says West threatens Serb people

    Serbia: In angry rhetoric reminiscent of the final days of Yugoslavia, Bosnia's Muslim and Croat leaders have denounced Belgrade for making its twin goals the protection of Serbs in Bosnia and the prevention of Kosovan independence. p

  • ANC rivals bask in Springboks' limelight

    South Africa: There is nothing like a nation's sporting success to bring out the brass neck in politicians. p

  • Hillary at 60 makes pitch for older women

    United States: The key numbers from Hillary Rodham Clinton's birthday extravaganza were 60 - her age - and $1.5 million, the approximate amount of cash she raked in thanks to Elvis Costello and Billy Crystal. p

  • US strike on Iran would see global price of oil skyrocket

    United States: The prospect of pandemonium in the oil markets makes US military action unlikely, writes Steven Mufson in Washington. p

  • Clergy killed in Spanish civil war to be beatified

    Spain: Nearly 500 priests, monks and nuns killed during the 1936-39 Spanish civil war will be beatified in Rome tomorrow. It will be the largest beatification ceremony seen in a single day. p

  • 700 years on Vatican admits Templars not heretics

    The Vatican: A mere 700 years after the fact, the Vatican has attempted to set the record straight on the Knights Templar, the medieval military order charged with protecting pilgrims to the Holy Land during the Crusades. p

  • China pollution concerns ahead of Olympic Games

    China: Beijing's Olympics organisers have been warned again that the city's foul air is a concern for the staging of the 2008 games in August, although the hosts have also been praised for fulfilling many of the environmental pledges made when it bid to host the games. p

  • De Menezes acted in an 'aggressive and threatening manner'

    Britain: A Brazilian man shot dead two years ago by British police, who thought he was a suicide bomber, had been acting in an "aggressive and threatening manner" when confronted by officers, a London court heard yesterday. p

  • Salmond tells SNP delegates independence on the agenda

    Britain: Alex Salmond yesterday set the SNP's eyes on independence and claimed Labour had lost touch with Scotland. p

  • Girls in England to get cervical cancer vaccine

    Britain: All girls aged 12 to 13 in England will be vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes most cervical cancer cases, the British government said yesterday. p

  • Image owned by singer not indecent

    Britain: A photograph owned by Sir Elton John and seized as part of a child pornography investigation is not an indecent image, according to the Crown Prosecution Service. p

  • Just when you thought it was safe to cross the Atlantic

    America : If you thought Americans were gullible to believe the case their leaders made for war in Iraq, a new poll suggests that the world's most powerful nation is even more credulous than you might imagine, writes Denis Staunton . p
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