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Serbia angered by EU move to send mission to Kosovo
EU SUMMIT : EU leaders have agreed to send an EU
police and civilian administration mission to Kosovo despite strong
opposition from Serbia. p
Devil is in the detail as talks enter key phase
BALI CONFERENCE : The crafting of language
preoccupied negotiators at the final all-night session of the UN
conference, writes
Frank McDonald. p
New Jersey to abolish death penalty
UNITED STATES: The state of New Jersey has voted to abolish the death penalty, positioning it to become the first since 1965 to eliminate capital punishment. p
Bali Climate Change Conference
Bali talks demonstrate real drive to tackle climate change
Analysis : The choice now for the US is to give real leadership on environmental issues or get left behind as other countries get on with it, writes Frank McDonald in Bali. pChina says its glaciers are melting
CHINA: High-altitude glaciers in China's remote west have shrunk by up to 18 per cent over the last five years due to global warming, state media said yesterday, citing preliminary results from an ongoing survey. p
Senators in Italy petitioned to clean up politics
ITALY: Controversial comedian and political activist Beppe Grillo rode up to the Italian Senate in a rickshaw yesterday to present a petition, signed by 350,000 people, calling for a "clean parliament". pConcern in US at Putin's one-man stance
RUSSIA: US officials are worried that Vladimir Putin is moving towards one-man rule in Russia and that, as a result, international disputes over Kosovo and Georgia are more likely to flare out of control. pSuitcase of cash opens Argentina, US wounds
ARGENTINA: Argentine and Venezuelan officials have angrily denounced a US criminal case linking a suitcase full of cash from Caracas to the campaign of newly installed Argentine president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. pMale politicians get Royal treatment
FRANCE: France's defeated socialist presidential candidate is making her political comeback with a tell-all book, writes Lara Marlowe . pClaims of mismanagement against US fraud investigator in Iraq
IRAQ: The man credited with rooting out fraud in efforts to rebuild Iraq is himself mired in allegations of overspending and mismanagement, writes Robin Wright in Washington. pMitchell shocks US with drugs in baseball report
AMERICA : In a distinguished public career, George Mitchell has been a federal judge and Senate majority leader and an international peace negotiator, helping to broker the Belfast Agreement in the North. pObama leads Clinton in New Hampshire
UNITED STATES: Barack Obama has edged ahead of rival Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire less than a month before the state's nominating primary in the 2008 race for the White House, a new poll showed on Friday. pJury deadlocked over Sears Tower bomb plot
UNITED STATES: A US federal court jury has acquitted one member of a group accused of plotting to blow up Chicago's Sears Tower and declared themselves deadlocked in deciding the fate of the six other defendants in the case of the so-called "Liberty City Seven". pLetters to Dodi read out at Diana inquest
BRITAIN: More than 10 years after Princess Diana and Dodi al-Fayed died, the emotional turmoil generated reduced one witness to tears and upset another, writes Owen Bowcott in London. pMusharraf expected to lift emergency order today
PAKISTAN: Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's president, is expected today to lift a six-week state of emergency that has drawn international condemnation and tested relations with Washington, his biggest ally. pSenior Fatah adviser seized by Hamas
MIDDLE EAST: A senior member of the Palestinian Fatah movement was detained by Hamas gunmen in Gaza yesterday in a fresh round of friction between the two groups. pBosnia starts deporting fighters after US pressure
BOSNIA: Bosnia has begun deporting hundreds of foreign "Mujahideen" fighters to whom it gave citizenship as a reward for their volunteering to fight in the country's 1992-5 war. pCocaine use up among UK combat troops
AFGHANISTAN: The British army, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, is losing the equivalent resources of more than one battalion (500-600 soldiers) a year as a result of illegal drug use, researchers said yesterday. pTurkish leader fined over pro-Kurdish comment
TURKEY: A Turkish court has ordered the prime minister, Tayyip Erdogan, to pay a symbolic fine to families of soldiers slain by Kurdish guerrillas for using a derogatory word to describe the dead men. pBluetongue disease found in cow imported into Britain
BRITAIN: The bluetongue virus has been found in an imported cow, the British Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said yesterday. pRepublican Ron Paul 'outgoogles' Clinton, Britney more popular than Paris Hilton
Google has released its 2007 zeitgeist, a listing of the most popular terms that users have searched for on the web, writes John Collins . pIn Short
A roundup of today's other world stories in brief: p
EU mission to Chad to get approval
A delayed EU peacekeeping mission to Chad should be approved next week following the offer of helicopters and medical facilities by EU states. pSpanish PM to chair review group
Felipe González, the former Spanish socialist prime minister, has been named chairman of an independent EU group of experts to review the future challenges facing the Union. pIreland's €2.6bn EU aid plan sanctioned
The European Commission has formally sanctioned the Government's €2.6 billion spending programme for EU structural funds for the period 2007 to 2013. p
