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  • 'Teddy' teacher she was well treated

    BRITAIN: A British teacher jailed in Sudan for letting her pupils name a teddy bear Mohammad arrived in London yesterday after being pardoned and said she had been well treated in prison and was sorry to leave the country. p
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  • Denmark unlikely to hold poll on EU treaty

    DENMARK: The Danish justice ministry has said there is no need to hold a referendum on the EU reform treaty because it does not transfer sovereignty from Copenhagen to Brussels. p

  • Polish PM urges tough EU stance on Russian poll

    POLAND: In his first visit to Brussels since being elected prime minister last month, Mr Tusk urged EU member states to demand that Russia comply with democratic standards. p

  • Poll triumph could turn out to be poisoned chalice for Putin

    RUSSIA: Having delivered a sweeping election victory for his party, Russian president Vladimir Putin now faces more difficult challenges, writes Quentin Peel p

  • Deal moves Bosnia closer to EU

    BOSNIA: Bosnia reached a preliminary deal on closer ties with the EU yesterday, putting the ethnically divided country on the path towards eventual membership of the bloc. p

  • Two Czech babies accidentally swapped returned to parents

    CZECH REPUBLIC: Two Czech baby girls who lived with the wrong families for almost a year after being accidentally swapped just after birth have been returned to their biological parents in time for their first birthdays. p

  • Hitmen murder nine Mexican folk singers in last 18 months

    MEXICO: Sergio Gomez, lead singer for the group K-Paz de la Sierra, was kidnapped in the southern state of Michoacan late on Saturday and had been missing for two days. p

  • Mystery deepens on return of 'dead' canoeist

    BRITIAN: The family of the British canoeist John Darwin, who reappeared at the weekend having gone missing in 2002, said last night that he cannot remember anything from the past seven years, as questions surrounding his reappearance - and his wife's whereabouts - intensified. p

  • Hunt for climate deal begins

    CLIMATE CHANGE: The 190-nation climate summit in Bali yesterday began a hunt for a new global deal to fight global warming by 2009 with skirmishing about how far China and India should curb surging greenhouse gas emissions. The meeting, which runs until December 14th, will involve 10,000 participants who will try to launch talks on a climate pact to succeed the UN's Kyoto protocol. p

  • 'Here we live like dead people'

    COLOMBIA: A letter from hostage Ingrid Betancourt reveals her desolation but also tiny sparks of hope, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris p

  • 13,000 'Rape of Nanking' victims listed by China

    CHINA: One week before the 70th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of people by Japanese troops in the wartime capital Nanjing, China has published an eight-volume list of 13,000 victims of the invasion. p

  • Chad mission understaffed, says study

    CHAD: The planned EU deployment to Chad is undermanned and underequipped for its mission, and risks becoming engulfed in the region's conflicts, according to a study published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). p

  • Flood threat to port cities increasing

    CLIMATE CHANGE: As many as 150 million people in the world's big coastal cities are likely to be at risk from flooding by the 2070s, more than three times as many as now, according to a report released yesterday. p

  • Car park threat to epic panorama

    HOLLAND: The world-famous Dutch Panorama Mesdag, a vast 19th-century 360-degrees painting, covering a square mile of canvas and attracting hundreds of thousands of admirers annually, is in danger of collapse. p

  • 'Pink gang' uses tough tactics against misbehaving males

    Letter from India Rahul Bedi A group of vigilante women dressed in pink saris and armed with sticks and axes have declared "war" on corrupt officials, caste discrimination and chauvinistic males in one of India's poorest and most backward regions in northern Uttar Pradesh state. p

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