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  • Spitzer being pushed to resign as he faces possible charges

    US: NEW YORK governor Eliot Spitzer was last night under mounting pressure to resign as he faced possible criminal charges over his involvement with an expensive prostitution ring. As Mr Spitzer stayed inside his Manhattan apartment, Republican legislators warned that they would move to impeach him unless he stepped down within 48 hours. p

  • Top US commander for Middle East to resign

    US: ADMIRAL WILLIAM Fallon, head of US Central Command, will step down on March 31st, because of perceived differences on policy with the Bush administration, defence secretary Robert Gates said yesterday. p

  • Aborigines consider suing over claimed ejection from hostel

    AUSTRALIA: A group of 16 Aborigines were last night considering suing an Australian backpacker hostel they say threw them out for being black. p

  • Beijing seeks to reassure on air quality for Olympics

    CHINA: BEIJING'S OLYMPIC organisers yesterday sought to reassure the world that the capital's air would be clean during the August games after Ethiopian athlete Haile Gebrselassie said that he would not compete in the marathon because of concerns about pollution. p

  • Tibetan marchers defy ban imposed by Delhi

    INDIA: A GROUP of Tibetan exiles living in India resumed a protest march to their homeland yesterday despite a ban on the demonstration. p

  • Proposals unveiled to boost citizens' pride in Britishness

    BRITAIN: IN A wide-ranging set of proposals designed to boost pride in Britishness a report reviewing citizenship by the former British attorney general Lord Goldsmith yesterday recommended setting up a new British national day. p

  • Concern over German data deal with US

    GERMANY: GERMAN DATA protection experts have expressed concern over a bilateral data-sharing deal agreed in Berlin yesterday between the US and Germany. p

  • 46 die in day of violence in Iraq

    IRAQ: AT LEAST 46 people died in violence across Iraq yesterday, including 14 mourners from one family killed when a roadside bomb hit a bus in a southern province, security officials said. p

  • Wacko and Tony, once united in friendship, now divided by war

    LETTER FROM BOSTON : THERE WAS a time, back in the 1950s, when Harry Truman was in the White House and communists were everywhere, that Anthony "Tony" Flaherty and John "Wacko" Hurley were the best of friends, writes KEVIN CULLEN p

  • Death toll from Afghan warup sharply to 8,000 in 2007

    AFGHANISTAN: INSURGENT AND terrorist violence in Afghanistan increased sharply in 2007, with more than 8,000 conflict-related deaths and an average of 566 incidents a month, United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon has reported. p

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