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  • Olmert threatens further actions in Gaza

    A Palestinian youth carries a burning tyre in Shuafat refugee camp, outside Jerusalem. MIDDLE EAST: Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert has promised more military action in Gaza, while Hamas leaders declared victory yesterday, just hours after Israeli troops ended a deadly incursion into the coastal strip and militants ceased firing rockets into Israel. p

  • West responds cautiously to Russian result

    Police detain a protester at a protest march against the election in Moscow on Sunday. RUSSIA: EUROPE AND the United States gave a guarded welcome to Russian president-elect Dmitry Medvedev yesterday, amid complaints from local and international monitors that his election was flawed, and small anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and St Petersburg. p
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  • Zanu founder backs Mugabe rival's campaign

    ZIMBABWE: ZIMBABWEAN PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was dealt a significant blow last weekend when senior members of his party came out in support of one of his challengers. p

  • India to pay bounty to poor to bring back the 'missing girls'

    A mass marraige being celebrated in Bavia, western India yesterday. Sociologists worry that a lack of girls is leading to trafficking and other problems. INDIA: Ten million female foetuses have been aborted in the country in 20 years, writes Randeep Ramesh p

  • Security Council tightens Iran sanctions over nuclear plans

    IRAN: THE UN Security Council imposed a third round of sanctions on Iran yesterday for refusing to suspend sensitive nuclear activities but Tehran dismissed the council's decision as illegal and illegitimate. There were 14 votes in favour, no votes against and one country, Indonesia, abstained. Previous sanctions resolutions were adopted unanimously in December 2006 and March 2007. p

  • Suicide bombers kill 19 in Baghdad attacks

    IRAQ: TWO BOMB blasts killed 19 people in Baghdad yesterday, police and Iraqi security forces said, despite an increased security presence across the capital for a historic visit by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. p

  • Jersey police told of child suicides after abuse

    JERSEY: JERSEY DETECTIVES are trying to establish whether staff at a home where scores of children were physically and sexually abused might have concealed suicides. Several abuse victims have told detectives they knew of a number of boys who hanged themselves after being raped at Haut de la Garenne, and some believe others died in the home's sick bay. p

  • Remains of St Padre Pio exhumed in Italy

    ITALY: FORTY YEARS after his death, Italian saint Padre Pio remains a highly controversial figure. Even as his body was being exhumed from his tomb in the church of Santa Maria delle Grazie in San Giovanni Rotondo, Puglia, southern Italy, on Sunday night, a group of devotees was taking legal action to try to stop the exhumation process. p

  • UN human rights official Arbour set to resign in June

    UN: LOUISE ARBOUR, the top UN human rights official, will step down on June 30th, according to sources close to her. It will end a four-year term that has been highlighted by confrontation with the Bush administration over the Iraq war, the death penalty and US efforts against terrorism. p

  • On a wing and many prayers: Hamburg airport crash landing averted

    Amateur video footage showing the Airbus A320 buffeted by crosswinds as it trys to land on Saturday at Fuhlsbuettel airport near Hamburg. GERMANY: GERMAN AIRLINE Lufthansa said yesterday its pilots had averted a crash at Hamburg airport after a strong gust of wind caused an aircraft, with 130 passengers on board, to veer dangerously on landing. p

  • Girl (16) held over killing of family members

    US: A WEEKEND killing spree in rural Texas has left a mother and her two sons dead and the father wounded, in a shooting and stabbing attack police say was carried out by the family's teenage daughter and the boyfriend her parents disliked. p

  • US supreme court may rule against broadcast of expletives

    US: THE US supreme court this week may reopen for the first time in more than 30 years the debate over what qualifies as an "indecent" broadcast. p

  • Texan Democrats divide along generational lines

     US: Today's vote will decide whose voice is stronger: older Latinos intensely loyal to Hillary Clinton, or younger, better-educated Latinos who identify with Obama?, writes Ed Saslow in Brownsville, Texas p

  • Lenihan makes his Brussels debut at justice ministers' meeting'

    JAMIE SMYTH EUROPEAN DIARY BRIAN LENIHAN made his inaugural trip to Brussels as Minister for Justice last week to attend a council of ministers' meeting with his counterparts from other EU member states. p

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