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  • Heathrow expansion creates turbulence

    Britain: A coalition of environmentalists, politicians and Londoners accused the British government of betrayal yesterday after it unveiled plans for a third runway at Heathrow airport. p

  • Musharraf likely to drop army role after judgment

    Pakistan: Pakistan's supreme court, stacked with judges friendly to President Pervez Musharraf, yesterday threw out a final challenge to his re-election and paved the way for him to quit as army chief. p

  • Arab states in a bind over peace conference

    A view of the concrete wall, part of Israel's controversial security barrier in Abu Dis, on the edge of Jerusalem. Middle East: In the more than seven years since President George Bush took office, Arab states have repeatedly called on the White House to throw itself into Middle East peacemaking. p
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  • Top Polish post for camp survivor

    Poland: New Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has named a war hero, Auschwitz survivor and former foreign minister as his special adviser on the country's complex relations with Germany, Russia and Israel. p

  • Defender of human rights goes on the offensive

    UN : The United Nations human rights commissioner, Louise Arbour, talks to Mary Fitzgerald . p

  • Foot-and-mouth disease leak 'probable'

    Britain: Farm organisations here and in Britain have expressed concern at the "probable" new leak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) at the Merial animal health facility in Pirbright, Surrey. p

  • Iran has not done enough, IAEA told

    Iran: European powers said yesterday Iran had not done enough to regain trust in its atomic work and the UN should now consider tougher sanctions. p

  • Rasmussen plans euro referendum

    Denmark: Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said he wants the country to adopt the euro and plans a referendum on the currency and other Danish EU opt-outs before 2011. p

  • Feeling grows that Italy is too soft on Roma criminality

    Rome Letter : These days, manual labourer "Adrian" does not like to tell people he is Romanian. Generally, he is careful not to say much to anyone but, if asked, he now tells people he is Polish. Just at the moment, Romanians are finding it uncomfortable in Italy. p

  • Howard's party caught using dirty tricks

    Australia: With Australians going to the polls tomorrow the Liberal-National government's re-election campaign has been thrown into disarray by an anti-Muslim slur designed to hurt the opposition Labor Party. p

  • Teenager's suicide spurs virtual vigilantism

    United States: The cruel words that drove Megan Meier to take her own life were not written, as she thought, by her online friend "Josh", writes PJ Huffstutter in Missouri. p

  • Canada to protect vast boreal wilderness from developers

    Canada: Canada's government has set aside 25 million acres of wilderness - almost 1.5 times the size of Ireland - for conservation, a move environmentalists called one of North America's most important acts of nature preservation. p

  • Boot camp help for internet addicts

    South Korea: South Korea, the world's most wired country, is hoping the short, sharp shock of the boot camp can help it to deal with a dangerous new phenomenon - internet addiction. p

  • In Short

    A roundup of today's other world stories in brief: p
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