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  • US anti-immigrant candidate drops out

    Republican candidate Mike Huckabee wipes sweat from his brow as he speaks at the Scott County Republican headquarters in Davenport, Iowa yesterday US: Republican presidential candidate Tom Tancredo, who campaigned on the single issue of illegal immigration, has dropped out of the race and thrown his support behind former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. p

  • Mbeki says he will serve his fulll term

    Thabo Mbeki, president of South Africa, gestures during his press conference in Pretoria yesterday SOUTH AFRICA: South Africa's President yesterday insisted he saw no reason why his government would not serve its full term. And he admitted the African National Congress (ANC) has no contingency plan for dealing with the possible conviction of its new leader Jacob Zuma for fraud. p

  • Karimov looks set to win Uzbek election

    UZBEKISTAN: Uzbekistan votes in a presidential election tomorrow, but few people in the Central Asian state or further afield have any doubt about who will win. p
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  • 55 killed in suicide attack on Pakistan mosque

    PAKISTAN: More than 50 people were killed yesterday when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a crowded mosque near the home of Pakistan's former interior minister on one of Islam's major holidays. p

  • Corruption fear after court ruling

    US: The US justice department has asked the Supreme Court to overturn an appeals court decision limiting law enforcement searches of congressional offices, arguing that the sweep of the ruling last summer may kill ongoing public corruption investigations. p

  • Japan suspends humpback hunt

    JAPAN: Japan's whaling fleet in the Antarctic will avoid killing humpback whales for now, but will press on with plans to kill 1,000 other whales by early in the new year, according to a government official. p

  • Brown suffers fresh poll blow

    BRITAIN: British prime minister Gordon Brown's woes piled up yesterday as a new poll showed him facing a "meltdown" at the next election and the opposition accused him of breaking a pledge to deport foreign criminals. p

  • McCann parents tell Madeleine to 'be brave' in Christmas message

    BRITAIN: Kate and Gerry McCann have sent a public message to their missing daughter Madeleine expressing their anguish. p

  • A nation torn between two centres of power

    SOUTH AFRICA: Thabo Mbeki may have to quit if he can't work with the ANC's new president, writes Musa Zondi p

  • Chinese to salvage 800-year-old wreck

    CHINA: A Chinese salvage team is gearing up to salvage the wreck of the Nanhai No 1, an 800-year-old merchant ship laden with exquisite porcelain, from the murky depths of the South China Sea. p

  • 'Orphans' were not kidnapped - aid group

    CHAD: The leader of a French aid group accused of trying to kidnap 103 African children in Chad, told a N'Djamena court yesterday his actions had been a legitimate humanitarian mission to save war orphans from Darfur. p

  • Terror alert in Belgium as al-Qaeda jailbreak foiled

    BELGIUM: A full-scale security alert was in place across Belgium last night after 14 Islamic extremists were accused of plotting the jailbreak of a would-be al-Qaeda suicide bomber. p

  • Hamas has consolidated control in Gaza - report

    MIDDLE EAST: Six months after seizing control of the Gaza Strip, Hamas remains in control and is unlikely to be ousted by international isolation and sanctions, reports the International Crisis Group (ICG). p

  • Lebanese vote is postponed for 10th time

    LEBANON: A Lebanese presidential poll scheduled for today has been postponed until December 29th, parliament speaker Nabih Berri said yesterday, the 10th delay to the election. p

  • Security weak at Brazil gallery

    BRAZIL: Thieves who stole a valuable Picasso painting from a Brazilian art museum this week didn't have to work very hard. On Friday, officials admitted there wasn't much of a security system in place at the cash-strapped museum. p

  • Former PM set to cast shadow over Thai polls

    THAILAND: Fifteen months after the bloodless coup that unseated prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, Thailand will go to the polls again tomorrow to restore the democracy taken by the generals. p

  • No rest for voters as airwaves campaign goes on

    America: After months of relentless campaigning, America's presidential candidate will take a short break over Christmas, giving the voters of Iowa and New Hampshire a couple of days' respite from mailshots, automated phone calls and personal visits at the door. p

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