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  • Madrid train bombs trial convicts 21

    Spain: A Spanish court convicted three men of mass murder yesterday for their part in the 2004 Madrid train bombings, while another man alleged in court to be one of the ringleaders was acquitted. p

  • Tax row delays new coalition in Poland

    Poland: Poland's prospective coalition partners have entered the final round of negotiations, with disagreements over a proposed flat tax delaying a deal. p
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  • Monks on streets in Burma again

    Buddhist monks: demanding release of Aung San Suu Kyi Burma: About 100 Buddhist monks took to the streets in central Burma yesterday in the first protests since pro-democracy demonstrations were bloodily suppressed by troops in late September. p

  • €3,700 compensation for Czech baby mix-up

    The Czech Republic: Czech authorities have offered the equivalent of €3,700 in compensation to two couples whose babies were swapped by hospital staff shortly after birth 10½ months ago. p

  • Madrid woos provinces over holiday home demolition plan

    Spain: A row over plans to demolish holiday homes in Spain continued yesterday as uncertainly remained over the implication for foreigners with property there. p

  • Deal on Franco symbols in regime victims' legislation

    Francisco Franco: churches can retain some symbols of regime Spain: A controversial law aimed at recognising victims of the Spanish Civil War and the Franco dictatorship was passed yesterday with a last-minute change to allow Spain's Catholic Church to keep Francoist symbols. p

  • 50 Taliban die in move towards southern city

    Afghanistan: Afghan and Nato-led troops have killed about 50 Taliban fighters and surrounded up to 250 more, close to Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar, the provincial police chief said yesterday. p

  • Chad says EU peacekeeping mission unaffected by arrests row

    Chad: The row over 16 Europeans accused of attempting to illegally transport more than 100 children from Chad to France will not affect the upcoming deployment of an EU peacekeeping force to the country, the Chadian government has said. p

  • Iraqi Kurdish leaders now targets

    A Turkish army commando platoon stands guard near Ikizce, in the southeastern Turkish province of Sirnak. Turkish troops are massing at the border with Iraq. Turkey: Turkey's deep-felt fear is that Iraqi Kurdistan's increased freedoms could act as a red rag to restive Turkish Kurds, writes Nicholas Birch in Yuksekova, southeast Turkey. p

  • Clinton's rivals take heart after robust debate

    US: Hillary Clinton's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination were hoping yesterday that a debate in Philadelphia on Tuesday that saw her come under relentless attack from other candidates could mark a turning point in the campaign. p

  • Bush nominee in torture wrangle

    US: Michael Mukasey, President George Bush's nominee as US attorney general, faced a growing prospect of rejection by the senate after he told senators that he could not say if "waterboarding", a form of simulated drowning allegedly used by CIA interrogators, was illegal. p

  • Halt on execution by lethal injection

    US: Minutes before Earl Wesley Berry was due to die at Mississippi state penitentiary on Tuesday, the US Supreme Court postponed his execution, signalling a de facto moratorium on the death penalty in the US until the court rules on the constitutionality of the lethal injection used in most states. p

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