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Mississippi win wipes out Clinton gains
US: BARACK OBAMA and Hillary Clinton are digging in
for a six-week campaign ahead of Pennsylvania's primary on April
22nd following Mr Obama's resounding victory in Mississippi on
Tuesday. p
Spitzer resigns over call girl scandal
US: NEW YORK governor Eliot Spitzer has announced
his resignation following allegations that he used the services of
an expensive prostitution agency, declaring that he could not allow
his "private failings" to disrupt the work of government. p
Hamas waiting for reply to ceasefire proposals
MIDDLE EAST: DEPOSED PALESTINIAN prime minister Ismail Haniyeh announced yesterday that Hamas is waiting for Israel's reply to ceasefire proposals put forward by Cairo. "The ball is in Israel's court," he said during a graduation ceremony at Gaza's Islamic University. p
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Brussels summit to clear way for climate package
EU: EU LEADERS fly to Brussels this evening for a two-day summit that is expected to broadly back the European Commission's climate change package published in January and address the turmoil currently engulfing the world's financial markets. pSerbs remember murdered leader
SERBIA: THE UNITED States and top EU officials urged Serbs to follow the political path of pro-western former prime minister Zoran Djindjic yesterday as the deeply divided nation marked five years since his assassination by ultra-nationalists. pRecent strife in Chad will not disrupt EUfor mission's timetable, MEPs told
EU: RECENT EVENTS in Chad will not disrupt the timescale for the EU's peacekeeping mission in that country, which is expected to reach its planned initial operational capacity later this month, the European Parliament heard yesterday. pAustrian society still divided over meaning of 'Anschluss'
AUSTRIA: PRESIDENT HEINZ Fischer of Austria has said his country's annexation to the Third Reich, 70 years ago yesterday, sealed the country's fate as both Nazi victim and perpetrator. pLast French veteran of first World War dies aged 110
FRANCE: FRANCE'S LAST surviving veteran of the first World War, an Italian immigrant who fought in the trenches with the Foreign Legion, has died at the age of 110. pFinnish islands may vote to reject Lisbon Treaty
FINLAND: Finnish prime minister Matti Vanhanen insisted yesterday he will not let the Aland Islands block ratification of the Lisbon Treaty. pCroat general denies campaign of murder and plunder
CROATIA: A CROATIAN offensive to retake a Serb-held enclave in 1995 had US backing and ultimately brought peace to former Yugoslavia, lawyers for former Croatian general Ante Gotovina said yesterday. pJudge to decide if McCain eligible to stand
US: A JUDGE has been asked to decide whether John McCain is a "natural born" American citizen, a constitutional requirement for the US presidency. pObama's delegate lead now 163
US: BARACK Obama's wins in Wyoming and Mississippi have restored his comfortable lead over Hillary Clinton among the delegates who will choose the Democratic nominee at next August's convention in Denver. pIran 'rift' at root of US admiral's resignation
US: THE SURPRISE resignation on Tuesday of Admiral William Fallon, the US military commander in the Middle East, followed a magazine article that portrayed the former fighter pilot as a lone officer taking on US president George Bush over his Iran policy. pDemocrats fear losing support of blue-collar workers to McCain
US: WITH TWO celebrity-class candidates, Democrats have seen their presidential contest draw record voter turnout and an influx of Hispanics and younger Americans to the party. But some are becoming concerned that the party risks losing its hold on a more established set of needed supporters: blue-collar workers. pSecurity forces fire tear gas at monks
CHINA: THOUSANDS OF Chinese security personnel fired tear gas to try to disperse more than 600 monks taking part in a second day of street protests in Tibet, a source and Radio Free Asia said yesterday. pUganda set for confrontation with ICC
UGANDA: THE UGANDAN president, Yoweri Museveni, is heading for a confrontation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) after saying he will not hand over leaders of his country's rebel Lord's Resistance Army indicted for war crimes to The Hague. pCase against Bhutto widower dropped
PAKISTAN: A PAKISTANI court dismissed one of two corruption cases against the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto yesterday, his lawyer said, in a step towards clearing the way for him to hold government office. pIraqi asylum seekers told it is safe to return home
IRAQ: MORE THAN 1,400 rejected Iraqi asylum seekers are to be told they must go home or face destitution in Britain as the British government considers Iraq safe enough to return them. pZuma accused of being political polygamist
SOUTH AFRICA: Determined to become South Africa's next leader, the tarnished ANC president is bending over backwards to please - but not everyone is impressed, writes Bill Corcoran in Johannesburg pIn short
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