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Clinton attacks Obama tactics
US : HILLARY CLINTON has adopted a harsher tone in
her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, accusing
frontrunner Barack Obama of misrepresenting, in mailshots to
voters, her positions on healthcare reform and free trade. p
Bomb blast in tent near Baghdad kills 40 pilgrims
IRAQ : A SUICIDE bomber detonated a vest packed with metal ball bearings in a refreshment tent full of Iraqi pilgrims heading to a Shia festival yesterday, killing 40 people and wounding 60, police said. p
Six more bodies may be buried in Jersey home
JERSEY: MORE BODIES may be buried at a former children's home in Jersey, where a youngster's remains were found by detectives investigating allegations of widespread child abuse on the island, police said yesterday. p
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Turkey sends another 25 tanks into Iraq
IRAQ: TURKEY SENT military reinforcements into
northern Iraq yesterday as clashes with militants from the
Kurdistan Workers' party (PKK) continued for a fourth day. pCuba embarks on new era as Raul Castro takes over
CUBA : CUBA'S NATIONAL assembly has named Raul Castro as head of state, formally ending 49 years of Fidel Castro's dominance. pCommons speaker Martin under pressure over expenses
BRITAIN: MICHAEL MARTIN, the speaker of the British House of Commons, was under growing pressure last night to explain his use of generous parliamentary expenses and allowances. pNepalese election may face further delays
NEPAL : AS THE clock ticks towards Nepal's third attempt to hold nationwide elections following a historic peace agreement in 2006, hopes are fading for a breakthrough in negotiations that would see the polls take place in April. pCharisma and organisation could shade it over policy
EYEWITNESS : THE CROWD was chanting "Hillary, Hillary" and waving signs in Spanish and English but with the Texas primary only 10 days away, Bill Clinton had no time for such displays of fervour. pIsrael on alert over Gaza border protest
MIDDLE EAST : ISRAEL PUT paramilitary police on standby and boosted surveillance along the Gaza border in case Palestinians try to break through into Israel as they did in Egypt last month, security sources said yesterday. pFurther blow for Kenya as bush fires destroy tracts of wildlife park
KENYA : BUSH FIRES have destroyed swathes of one of Kenya's most famous national parks. Smoke was still rising yesterday from Lake Nakuru National Park, home to more than a million flamingos. pCanada pledges €370m in aid to impoverished Haiti
HAITI : CANADIAN FOREIGN minister Maxime Bernier highlighted his country's $555 million (€370 million) aid package to Haiti as he wrapped up a three-day visit to the impoverished Caribbean nation. pDirectors criticise Spielberg over Olympics pull-out
CHINA : CAUGHT IN the fall-out from Steven Spielberg's decision this month to quit as artistic director to the Beijing Olympics, a trio of international film directors defended their decision to take part in a series of short films about the games, saying their films were not propaganda but art. pChina in rare call on ally Sudan over Darfur
SUDAN: CHINA, UNDER international pressure to help end the conflict in Darfur, made a rare call on its Sudanese ally yesterday to do more to allow foreign peacekeepers to deploy to the region. pFour arrests in Vienna as anti-Kosovo protest leaves two policemen injured
AUSTRIA: FOUR PEOPLE were arrested and two policemen were injured yesterday when a protest in the Austrian capital against the secession of Kosovo turned violent, according to police. pSarkozy caught on video telling bystander to get lost
FRANCE: A VIDEO of French president Nicolas Sarkozy telling a bystander to "get lost" has become a hit on the internet. pCommunist wins presidential election in Cyprus
CYPRUS: DEMETRIS CHRISTOFIAS yesterday became the first communist to be elected president of Cyprus and the EU's only communist head of state and government. pHolocaust opera fails to strike the right note with public
BREMEN DIARY: CAN YOU set the Holocaust to music? The new opera Raoul , which has just premiered in Bremen, is a brave attempt to do just that. pHamburg election results heighten coalition tensions
GERMANY: GERMAN CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel's conservatives held on to power in a state election in Hamburg yesterday which also dealt a blow to the Social Democrats (SPD) and could heighten tensions in Berlin's "grand coalition". pChina acknowledges 45% rise in Aids cases last year
CHINA: THE CHINESE government has admitted to a staggering 45 per cent surge in Aids cases last year, saying that changing social attitudes and better data collection were behind the increase. pDemocrats will only be happy if Iraq is abandoned
OPINION : No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area . . . If the US provides sustained support to the Iraqi government - in security, governance, and development - there is now a very real chance that Iraq will emerge as a secure and stable state." - Anthony Cordesman, from The Situation in Iraq: A Briefing from the Battlefield, February 13th, 2008. pIn Short
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