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  • 70% US aid to Pakistan claimed to be misspent

    PAKISTAN: AMERICA'S MASSIVE military aid package to Pakistan is being scrutinised after allegations that as much as 70 per cent of $5.4 billion in assistance to the country has been misspent. p
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  • Campaign funding hits new records

    US: THIS YEAR'S US presidential contest has been groundbreaking in many ways, but none more than in the race for campaign cash. p

  • Video of white students abusing black cleaners outrages S Africa

    SOUTH AFRICA: A VIDEO of white South African university students feeding black cleaners soup they had urinated in has caused outrage in a country scarred by decades of apartheid. p

  • Italian court frowns upon the personal touch

    ITALY: ITALY'S HIGHEST appeals court has ruled it is a criminal offence for Italian men to touch their genitals in public - a judgment that has far-reaching implications for superstitious males. p

  • Landslide for Putin protege assured

    RUSSIA: CHOOSING RUSSIA'S new president appears to be child's play. p

  • US veteran of revolution comes to terms with new China

    CHINA: SIDNEY RITTENBERG was born into a well-heeled family in Charleston, South Carolina, but his destiny has become completely entwined with China and the revolutions that transformed the country throughout the last century and into the current era. p

  • Earthquake felt all over UK caused €13m damage

    BRITAIN: AN EARTHQUAKE measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale hit the UK early yesterday morning, resulting in at least one injury and damage likely to exceed £10 million (€13 million) according to the Association of British Insurers. p

  • Students test new scarf policy with march on college

    TURKEY: TURKEY HAS partially lifted the ban on students wearing Muslim headscarves but covered women are still marching on university gates demanding to be let in. p

  • Israelis support direct Hamas talks

    MIDDLE EAST: ISRAEL IS under growing pressure to talk directly to the Islamist Palestinian group Hamas, which fired a barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel yesterday, killing a student. Last night Israeli military aircraft bombed the Hamas-run interior ministry in Gaza city, according to a Hamas official. The blast killed a six-month-old baby and wounded at least 14 other people, hospital officials said. p

  • Dealer donates art worth €165m to UK museums

    BRITAIN: AN ART dealer has given a collection of modern art worth £125 million (€165m) to British museums. p

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