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  • Polish PM pledges to withdraw troops from Iraq

    Polish prime minister Donald Tusk POLAND: Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has pledged to withdraw his country's troops from Iraq in 2008 and end the confrontational politics pursued by the previous administration, writes Jamie Smyth in Warsaw. p

  • 154 escape sinking vessel

    ANTARCTIC: Four Irish people were among more than 150 passengers and crew who escaped unhurt after their cruise ship hit ice in the Antarctic and started sinking yesterday, the ship's owner and coast guard officials said. Cesar Illiano in Buenos Aires. p
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  • Brown fights ex-defence chiefs' claims of neglect

    UK: British prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday hit back at claims by former UK defence chiefs that he had treated the armed forces with contempt, saying he had nothing but respect for British soldiers. p

  • Croatia's 'Blair' slightly ahead in opinion polls

    CROATIA: Croatia goes to the polls tomorrow, with its two main parties neck and neck in surveys and both vowing to lead their country into the European Union, writes Daniel McLaughlin . p

  • Slovakian coalition may collapse

    SLOVAKIA: Slovakia's coalition government could collapse today after prime minister Robert Fico asked the country's president to sack its farm minister over a property scandal, writes Daniel McLaughlin . p

  • Saudi Arabia presence a boost for peace talks

    MIDDLE EAST: The US-brokered Annapolis peace conference was given a significant boost yesterday when heavyweight Saudi Arabia decided to send its foreign minister to the launch of the first peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians in seven years. p

  • EU relations with Russia must be 'remodelled'

    IRELAND: The EU's relationship with Moscow needs to be remodelled into one based on common interests and leading to a deep partnership built around far-reaching economic integration of the whole of Europe, including Russia, the Irish ambassador to Russia told a conference in Dublin yesterday, reports Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent. p

  • Baghdad market bombing kills 13, wounds 57

    IRAQ: A bomb hidden in a box of birds killed 13 people and wounded 57 at a popular pet market in central Baghdad yesterday, police and witnesses said, describing the deadliest attack in the Iraqi capital in two months, writes Paul Tait in Baghdad. p

  • US proposals on missile defence shield fail to allay Russian concern

    RUSSIA: US overtures aimed at easing Russian concerns over a planned missile defence shield fall short of Moscow's expectations, a Russian foreign ministry source has been quoted as saying. p

  • Sharif plans return to Pakistan to fight election

    PAKISTAN: Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is poised to return home again after eight years in exile and a failed attempt to return in September, his party said yesterday, writes Declan Walsh . p

  • Sectarian murder trial tests Turkey's religious tolerance

    TURKEY: Five men went on trial yesterday in the eastern city of Malatya for the brutal murder of three Christian missionaries, in a case that is seen as a test of Turkey's willingness to stamp out growing signs of religious intolerance here, writes Nicholas Birch in Istanbul. p

  • Somali Red Crescent chief named as PM

    The president of Somalia has nominated a humanitarian administrator and former police colonel to become the next prime minister of the troubled Horn of Africa nation, writes Edmund Sanders in Nairobi. p

  • Cult of Che ignores apocalyptic vision of its hero

    Buenos Aires Letter: Publishers are experts at the art of cashing in on anniversaries, writes Tom Hennigan . p

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