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  • US offers Turkey help in targeting rebel PKK

    US president George W Bush welcomes Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan to the White House. Mr Bush, facing Turkish threats of a military offensive in Iraq to root out Kurdish rebels, assured Mr Erdogan he would help combat the rebels through intelligence sharing. US: The United States has promised to share intelligence with Turkey about the activities of the Kurdish separatist PKK in northern Iraq, hoping to avert a Turkish military incursion. p
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  • US stuck with Musharraf for fear of worse

    Pakistan: President Bush compromised neoconservative democratic principles to secure the support of Pervez Musharraf in the war on terror - but the general has not delivered, writes Paul Richter p

  • Rice and Abbas want to broker peace deal within the Bush era

    Middle East: Condoleezza Rice and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that they wanted to reach a Middle East peace agreement before President Bush leaves office in just over a year's time. But the secretary of state finished another Middle East visit without announcing a date for a planned peace summit. p

  • Government concerned over emergency rule

    Pakistan: The Government and Opposition parties have expressed concern over the state of emergency in Pakistan and called for a peaceful transition towards democracy and civilian rule. p

  • Warning that Iraqi Kurdistan could go the same way as Palestine

    Iraq: Iraqi Kurdistan is so afflicted by mismanagement and corruption that people are calling for change, writes Michael Jansen in Sulaimaniyah p

  • Pakistani lawyers put under cosh by emergency rule

    Pakistan: Karachi's jittery stock market plunged yesterday on jitters about President Pervez Musharraf's crackdown. But on the tense, troop-lined streets of Islamabad, the price of barbed wire was surely strong. p

  • Egyptian policemen jailed for torturing detainee

    Egypt: A Cairo court sentenced two policemen to three years in prison on Monday for torturing a man, in a case that sparked public outrage in Egypt and drew criticism from international rights groups. p

  • Guatemala elects left-wing leader in rejection of past

    Guatemala: Centre-left politician Alvaro Colom won Guatemala's presidential election on Sunday, defeating a retired general who wanted to unleash the army to fight a violent crime wave. p

  • Romanian leaders urge Italy to prevent attacks on immigrants

    Italy: Romania's leaders have urged Italy to prevent vigilante attacks on their compatriots, amid furious reaction to the alleged murder of an Italian woman by a Romanian immigrant. p

  • Winfrey removes staff from academy

    South Africa: US talk show host and media magnate Oprah Winfrey said yesterday she was "cleaning house" at her exclusive all-girl academy in South Africa after a dormitory matron was charged with abusing students. p

  • Olympic ticket fever hits China as computer system buckles under strain

    China: Organisers of next year's Olympic Games have decided to revert to a lottery system to allocate tickets after the computerised booking system buckled under the weight of overwhelming phone, online and retail outlet orders for the second batch of tickets. p

  • Commission asked to rethink policy to snuff out 'snus'

    European Diary: The little ball of fine black tobacco fits snugly under my upper lip. Within seconds it begins working its magic, dispensing nicotine into the blood stream. Those tortuous cigarette cravings, which have blighted every trip to the pub since I quit smoking six months ago, disappear almost immediately under the calming effects of "snus". p

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