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Fingerprinting part of proposed EU security plan
EU: The European Commission has proposed fingerprinting all non-EU citizens visiting the 24 European states in the Schengen border-free zone to tackle illegal immigration. p
Yushchenko vows not to allow Nato bases on Ukraine soil
UKRAINE: President Viktor Yushchenko vowed
yesterday that Ukraine would never host Nato bases on its
territory, after his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, warned
that such a move could prompt Moscow to train its missiles on the
country. p
Chinese media ignore Spielberg games walkout
CHINA: China's Olympic coverage on state broadcaster CCTV yesterday evening focused on athletes preparing for the games in August and neither the TV channel, which boasts one billion viewers, nor any other domestic media, gave any space to Steven Spielberg's decision to quit as artistic adviser to the 2008 games over China's inaction on Darfur. p
Other World Stories
Abortion set to become Italian poll issue
ITALY: Thirty years after abortion was legalised in Italy, the question seems set to become a campaign issue in the April 13th-14th election. pWritten constitution may follow UK Bill of Rights
UK: British justice secretary Jack Straw has signalled that a new "Bill of Rights and Responsibilities" could pave the way for a written constitution for the United Kingdom. pBruni apologises over Nazi methods remark
ITALY: Carla Bruni, the wife of French president Nicolas Sarkozy, apologised yesterday for comparing the methods used by a French news magazine to those of Nazi collaborators during the second World War. pResidents return to charred rubble in West Darfur
SUDAN: The stench of burning hung in the air of Sirba, a town in West Darfur, as its inhabitants returned home to find their belongings in a charred pile, their animals dead and their food gone. pEmotion high as PM apologises to Aborigines
AUSTRALIA: Thousands of Aborigines and other Australians hugged, sobbed or stood applauding yesterday as the country united for a new era in race relations. pWriters' strike in US over
US: Film and television writers have voted decisively to end their 100-day-old strike against major studios and began to return to work yesterday, formally ending the worst union dispute to hit Hollywood in 20 years. pLama to become Chinese official
TIBET: Tibetan politics look set to take centre stage in China if, as widely reported, the Panchen Lama, anointed while still a boy as a top religious figure by Beijing against the wishes of most Tibetan Buddhists, is appointed a Communist Party official at the annual parliament in March. pIndia's tigers dying out
INDIA: India's tiger population has alarmingly declined to 1,411, less than half the previous estimate, due to poaching and encroachments on their habitat, a government census has revealed. pUS applauds assassination of senior Hizbullah leader
US: The assassination in Damascus on Tuesday night of one of Hizbullah's most senior commanders, Imad Mugnieh, long on the US's most-wanted list for attacks on Israeli and western targets, was last night applauded by the US. pFront-runners beginning to close in on prize
US: The momentum is now with Obama as Clinton falters and McCain looks secure, writes Denis Staunton pClinton will not regain lead, says Obama aide
US: Barack Obama's campaign has claimed that it is now "next to impossible" for Hillary Clinton to reclaim the lead in pledged delegates to the convention that will choose the Democratic presidential nominee. pTD clashes with Roche on Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE: A Fianna Fáil TD yesterday publicly clashed with a Junior Minister over what he said was the Government's failure to "make a fuss" about Zimbabwe. p
