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  • Bush demands honesty on nuclear issue

    US: Struggling to maintain international pressure on Iran after this week's admission by US intelligence agencies that Tehran abandoned its nuclear weapons programme four years ago, President George Bush demanded yesterday that Iran "come clean" about its nuclear activities. p

  • 'Missing' canoeist held on suspicion of fraud

    John Darwin who was declared dead 13 months after he went missing in March 2002. BRITAIN: Detectives were due to question missing canoeist John Darwin today as the story surrounding his sudden reappearance - and his wife's decision to sell up and move to central America - began to unravel. p
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  • Iran report guided by fear of past US mistakes

    US: Critical new intelligence data helped trigger a US reassessment of Iran's nuclear weapons programme, writes Greg Miller in Washington p

  • Guantánamo detainee cut throat with fingernail

    US: Despite sweeping measures to prevent suicides among the 305 prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, a detainee slashed his throat with a sharpened fingernail recently and could have bled to death if guards had not rushed to his aid, officers said on Tuesday. p

  • Irish hostility to EU-wide defence falling, says McCreevy

    EU: Internal market commissioner Charlie McCreevy has said public opposition to a common European defence policy is declining in the Republic. p

  • Latvian PM and cabinet quit as corruption scandal widens

    LATVIA: Latvian prime minister Aigars Kalvitis and his cabinet resigned yesterday, following criticism from the public and president of his attempt to sack an anti-corruption prosecutor who was investigating possible financial irregularities by the ruling party. p

  • Chinese lawyers want abolition of 're-education through labour'

    CHINA: A group of leading Chinese lawyers and academics have demanded immediate abolition of the country's infamous system of "laojiao" (re-education through labour), saying it is a serious impediment to efforts to bring about the rule of law in China. p

  • Mother suspected of killing five children

    GERMANY: Five children between the ages of three and nine were found dead in a house in the northern German village of Darry yesterday, police said. p

  • Taking of prints at airports in US extended

    US: Foreign visitors arriving at Washington's Dulles airport yesterday had all 10 fingerprints scanned as part of an enhanced security screening system that will be extended to nine other United States airports early next year. p

  • UK bars unskilled migrants from outside EU

    UK: Unskilled migrants from countries outside the European Union will no longer be eligible to work in the UK, barring thousands of potential newcomers from countries such as India and Pakistan, the British government said yesterday. p

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