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  • Clashes at neo-Nazi march in Prague

    Czech anti-fascist activists march in Prague to oppose an illegal march by a far-right party. Photograph: Petr Joske/Reuters GERMANY:  Czech police arrested more than 30 people after clashes between neo-Nazis and anti-fascist protesters in Prague's historic Jewish quarter on Saturday. p

  • Black Sea hit by oil spill after ships sink in storm

    UKRAINE: A severe storm broke a Russian oil tanker in two near the Ukrainian port of Kerch yesterday, spilling up to 2,000 tonnes of fuel oil in what a Russian official said was an "environmental disaster". p
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  • A brawler who never pulled a punch

    US: Time finally ran out. The death of US writer Norman Mailer at the age of 84 leaves a silence, Eileen Battersby salutes Norman Mailer, a consummate American author and definitive public man who was his own soap opera p

  • Clinton campaign officials sniped that many of the Obama people looked too young to vote

    US: The bleachers on one side of the Des Moines vast Veterans Memorial Hall were an ocean of red T-shirts as Barack Obama's mostly young supporters kept up the loudest racket at Saturday's Jefferson Jackson Dinner. p

  • Writer Norman Mailer dies at 84

    US: Norman Mailer, the pugnacious two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was a dominating presence on the US literary scene for more than half a century, died over the weekend of kidney failure, his family said. He was 84. p

  • Madison County: a bridge to the presidency

    US: Only two dozen people showed up at the local museum in Winterset, Iowa, birthplace of John Wayne and home to the bridges of Madison County, to hear about Hillary Clinton on Friday night, but campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe was satisfied. p

  • Slovenia set to elect centre-left president

    SLOVENIA: Left-leaning diplomat Danilo Turk was poised to become Slovenia's new president last night, after election exit polls placed him far ahead of his government-backed opponent. p

  • Queen leads remembrance of war dead

    BRITAIN: Queen Elizabeth led the remembrance of Britain's war dead at the Cenotaph in London yesterday amid renewed political skirmishes over the Labour government's alleged failure to honour the "military covenant" with serving members of the armed forces. p

  • Tories bring Aitken back into the fold

    BRITAIN: The Labour Party in Britain last night accused the Tories of returning to their "disgraced, scandal-ridden past" after it emerged that Conservative former cabinet minister and former prisoner Jonathan Aitken is being rehabilitated. p

  • Poll promised by January 9th

    PAKISTAN: Pakistan was on course for what may well be troubled elections yesterday after President Pervez Musharraf promised polls by early January but said they may be held under emergency rule. p

  • Chavez told to 'shut up' as Spain's king loses patience

    SPAIN: When Hugo Chavez is in full flow, politicians and diplomats know better than to try and cut him dead. But not kings. p

  • Merkel and Bush agree on Iran sanctions

    US: US president George Bush and German chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed that a third round of UN sanctions against Iran will be unavoidable if Iran does not halt its nuclear programme. p

  • US facing hard choices when dealing with Pakistan

      Opinion: Islamist barbarians are at the gates. The president declares de facto martial law. The country's democratic forces of the centre and left, led by well-dressed lawyers and a former prime minister, take to the streets, writes Charles Krauthammer p

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