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Bhutto threatens to lead mass rally to Islamabad
PAKISTAN: The mood of confrontation in Pakistan
intensified yesterday when Benazir Bhutto threatened to lead a mass
rally to the capital, Islamabad, unless president Pervez Musharraf
met her demands to step down from the army and restore
constitutional rule. p
Sarkozy receives standing ovation at US Congress as speech mends relations
US: The long years of animosity between the US and
France formally ended just after 11am yesterday when French
president Nicolas Sarkozy entered the US House of Representatives
to applause and yelps of approval. p
Burma rejects UN bid for three-way talks
BURMA: Burma's ruling junta has rejected UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari's bid for three-way talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit, official media said on Tuesday. p
Other World Stories
Serb politician goes on trial for war crimes
UN: The leader of Serbia's most popular political party was accused yesterday of inciting ethnic hatred that led to the death of hundreds of thousands of people in former Yugoslavia. pAssembly passes no confidence vote in Blair
BRITAIN: The London Assembly passed a vote of no confidence in Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair yesterday. pEU Chad mission must be clearly defined from start
CHAD: Terrain, rebels and civilians will all pose challenges to the work of the 4,300 troops, writes Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent pGeorgia plunged into crisis after state of emergency declared
GEORGIA: Georgia was gripped by its most serious political crisis since the 2003 Rose Revolution last night as the president declared a state of emergency. pLeaning tower of Pisa loses crooked crown
GERMANY: Move over Pisa: according to the Guinness Book of World Records, another tower has stolen the crooked crown from Italy's famous leaning tower. pScientists discover fifth planet in 'habitable zone'
US: The discovery by Nasa scientists of a fifth planet circling a star beyond our solar system marks "an exciting next step in the search for worlds like our own", astronomers have said. pSurgeons separate child from 'parasitic' twin
INDIA: Indian surgeons successfully separated a two-year-old girl from a conjoined headless twin and reconstructed her body yesterday in a gruelling operation lasting nearly 27 hours. pPakistani judge emerges as unlikely poster boy for opposition to Musharraf
PAKISTAN: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry is an unlikely folk hero. The deposed chief justice has a gruff demeanour, a hangdog face, a thick moustache and is slightly cross-eyed. No one would call him charismatic. pAfghans mourn country's worst suicide bombing
AFGHANISTAN: Afghans began three days of national mourning yesterday for 41 people, many of them children, killed in the country's worst suicide attack. pSixteen feared dead in aftermath of Mexican mudslide
MEXICO: Mexican soldiers have been digging for victims of a giant mudslide that buried a village when torrential rains caused a soaked hillside to collapse. pJapanese food scandals leave bitter aftertaste
JAPAN: TV audiences in Japan couldn't get enough of the steam-bun video. Shot secretly in China and screened repeatedly on Japanese networks, the footage showed a street vendor soak and mince corrugated cardboard, stuff it into dough and sell it as a pork-filled bun. pThe lobster's feelings on being boiled alive
BRITAIN: Sensitive chefs, avert your eyes now. An investigation into the most contentious of kitchen dilemmas has reached its unpalatable conclusion: lobsters do feel pain. pBrazil succumbs to football fantasy as 2014 World Cup host
Sao Paulo Letter: Who wouldn't want a World Cup in their own country? Surely it's a no-brainer. The world comes to your place to party for a month as you host the greatest sporting gig on earth. pIn short
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