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Kosovo to declare independence 'next week'
Serbia: Kosovo will declare independence a week
from tomorrow, Serbia's minister for the restive province said
yesterday, amid growing impatience among its 90 per cent Albanian
population and signs of rising tension in the rest of Serbia. p
Clinton, Obama set for battle in five states
United States: Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are campaigning across the United States as five states vote in the first primaries and caucuses since Super Tuesday left the two candidates virtually tied. p
Darfur rebel leader on Irish Aid board
Sudan: A leading member of one of Darfur's rebel
groups sits on the advisory board of Irish Aid, the Government's
overseas development division,
The Irish Times has learned. p
Other World Stories
Poland out to mend strained Russian relations
Poland : Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has moved to mend strained relations with Russia, saying the two countries are "tired of an icy atmosphere". p'EU should be prepared to take the risk'
Sudan: Mary Fitzgerald meets the Maynooth academic and leading Darfuri figure who urges EU for mission to deploy now to Chad. pGalway woman on humanitarian mission still being detained in Egypt
Middle East: A Galway woman who travelled into Gaza last week to distribute charity relief was still being held for questioning by Egyptian authorities last night. pPeace accord unlikely in 2008
Middle East: Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad said yesterday a lasting peace accord with Israel was unlikely in 2008 despite renewed diplomatic efforts to resolve the long-running conflict. pHostile response to Williams's sharia comments
Britain: The Archbishop of Canterbury stands charged of naivety over his remarks on sharia law, writes Frank Millar , London Editor. pCzech president awaits second-term decision
Czech Republic: Czech president Vaclav Klaus, a scornful critic of the European Union and environmentalism, was on tenterhooks last night over his bid for a second term in office. pDemocrats anxious at prospect of contest dragging on
America : With Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in a dead-heat after Super Tuesday as Republicans start to unite around John McCain, Democratic leaders are growing ever more anxious at the prospect of a nominating contest that could drag on for months. pIpswich accused claims that coincidence links him to murders
Britain: The former publican accused of murdering five young women claimed yesterday to be the unfortunate victim of numerous coincidences that linked him to each of them shortly before they went missing. pDeath toll from smoking predicted to reach billion
United States: One billion people may die of tobacco-related illness this century, almost all of them in developing countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned as it rolled out an unprecedented global campaign to limit the spread of smoking. pBig bankroll no substitute for authenticity
United States: Romney never overcame charges that he had flip-flopped his way through his political career, writes Janet Hook in Washington. pGunman who killed five had ongoing dispute with council officials
United States: A gunman in the US killed two police officers and three city officials on Thursday night when he stormed into a city council meeting in a suburb of St Louis, Missouri, police said. pTwo children die after eating cakes laced with thallium
Iraq: Iraqi authorities are investigating a case of poisoning at a Baghdad sports club popular with the army, in which two children have died and nine people have been taken to hospital. pLe Pen fined over war comments
France: A French court gave far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen a three-month suspended prison sentence yesterday and fined him €10,000 for saying that the Nazi occupation of France was "not particularly inhumane". pBritish investigators say Bhutto killed by bomb blast
Pakistan: Scotland Yard waded into the controversy around Benazir Bhutto's death yesterday when it released a report supporting the official explanation of how the opposition leader was killed. pSpanish court bans two Basque political parties for links to Eta
Spain: The Spanish high court yesterday banned two Basque parties for three years because of their links to separatist guerrilla group Eta, preventing them from taking part in next month's general election. pIn Short
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