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  • Brown reaffirms the primacy of US-British bond

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Gordon Brown moved to dispel any lingering impressions of a policy rift with Washington last night in a major foreign policy speech strongly reasserting the primacy of the Anglo-American alliance. p

  • Black Sea coast facing 'ecological catastrophe'

    An oil tanker on the Ukraine coast near where the Volgoneft-139 broke up in fierce storms on Sunday RUSSIA: Long stretches of Russia's Black Sea coast face an ecological catastrophe, local authorities said yesterday, after a fierce storm broke up a tanker, disgorging hundreds of tonnes of oil on to the shore. p

  • Musharraf and Bhutto head for showdown on march

    Benazir Bhutto (centre) visits the family home of Zaheer Abbas Bolas, a supporter killed at the suicide bombing aimed at Ms Bhutto in Karachi last month. PAKISTAN: Benazir Bhutto and President Pervez Musharraf were headed for a fresh showdown last night as the opposition leader vowed to press ahead with a "long march" across Punjab province today even as the government promised to thwart it. p
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  • Olmert may free 400 in advance of meeting

    MIDDLE EAST: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a parliamentary committee yesterday he is considering the release of a large number of Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture ahead of a Middle East peace summit the US is hoping to host in Annapolis, Maryland, in the coming weeks. p

  • Fund 'compliant with sharia law' runs into trouble

    DUBAI: A multinational property company, which will next year launch what it claims will be the first global investment fund compliant with sharia law, is facing complaints that it has broken a Muslim entreaty by refusing to treat with "honour and dignity" the workers who clean its US headquarters in Indianapolis. p

  • Trial of France's 'most wanted' man begins

    FRANCE: They sat face to face in the special assize court yesterday, the aggrieved silver-haired widow Dominique Érignac and the Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna, accused of murdering her husband. p

  • Opposition in Georgia names its candidate

    GEORGIA: Georgia's opposition has named a wealthy winemaker to run against President Mikhail Saakashvili in January's snap election, amid signs that its much-vaunted unity is already under severe strain. p

  • Bird flu confirmed on turkey farm in England

    BRITAIN: An outbreak of bird flu has been confirmed at a turkey farm in eastern England although the exact strain is not yet known, Britain's farm ministry said yesterday. p

  • France and Germany face more rail strikes

    FRANCE/GERMANY: France prepared for an extended rail strike from this week as both unions and government dug in over a pensions dispute that is shaping up as the first major battle over President Nicolas Sarkozy's economic reform plans. p

  • Song urges Germans to change their tune on Turkish integration

    GERMANY: They came, they saw, they sang. The foreign ministers of France and Germany put on an unprecedented show of harmony in Berlin yesterday, singing backup on a new song calling for better integration of Turks in Germany. p

  • Anonymous novel about wolf wisdom is howling success

    CHINA:  A publicity-shy Chinese author who published his book anonymously has won Asia's first major literary prize for a best-selling novel that blends philosophy, arcane history about gods and ruling dynasties and messages about learning from the wolf. p

  • Lithuania's interior minister and police chief resign

    LITHUANIA: Lithuania's interior minister and the country's police chief both resigned yesterday over a drunk police officer who drove his car into three 10-year-old boys, killing them last week. p

  • Russian who killed Swiss air traffic controller leaves jail

    SWITZERLAND: A Russian man convicted of killing an air traffic controller linked to a 2002 mid-air collision was released from jail and was thought to be flying back to Russia late last night, Swiss media reported. p

  • Officer who shot fan dead may face charges

    ITALY: An Italian policeman who shot and killed a soccer fan on Sunday is being investigated for involuntary manslaughter, according to Arezzo police commissioner Vincenzo Giacobbe. p

  • Havel returns to his writing with controversial new play

    CZECH REPUBLIC: Almost two decades after Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution transformed him from dissident writer into post-communist president, Vaclav Havel is returning to his creative roots with a long-awaited new play. p

  • Groovy designers turn roads into soundtracks

    JAPAN: Motorists used to listening to the radio or their favourite tunes on CDs may have a new way to entertain themselves, after engineers in Japan developed a musical road surface. p

  • All-island bid to join Schengen could eliminate borders

    European Diary: The citizens of nine European Union states will get an early Christmas present next month when internal border checks are removed between them and 13 other countries participating in the Schengen free travel area. p

  • Human specimen shows slow pace of evolution

    KENYA: A skeleton from the cradle of humankind has set Christians against scientists as the row over Darwin's theory erupts again. Rob Crilly reports from Nairobi p

  • In short

    A roundup of today's other stories in brief. p
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