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Obama confronts US racial divisions in major speech
US: BARACK OBAMA has used a controversy over
incendiary remarks by his former pastor to confront America's
racial divisions in the most wide-ranging speech on the issue by
any major politician for more than a generation. p
Chinese premier Wen blames Dalai Lama for unrest in Tibet
CHINA: AS CHINA tightened its grip on Tibet, its
premier Wen Jiabao launched a vitriolic attack against the Dalai
Lama, accusing the exiled Tibetan leader of orchestrating last
week's riots and of trying to wreck the Beijing Olympics. p
UN officer dies after Serb riots
KOSOVO: NATO PLACED the Kosovan town of Mitrovica
under de facto military law yesterday after riots by a Serb
population hostile to independence killed one UN policeman and
forced the pull-out of UN personnel. p
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Polish PM vows to call referendum if Kaczynski blocks Lisbon Treaty
POLAND: POLISH PRIME minister Donald Tusk has said he will call a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski continues to block parliamentary ratification. pLivingstone facing tough mayoral battle
UK: LONDON MAYOR Ken Livingstone has launched his
bid for a third term in office to the backdrop of an opinion poll
showing him trailing Conservative challenger Boris Johnson by as
much as 12 points. pEvidence from Mills less than candid, finds divorce judge
LONDON: HEATHER Mills presented a case based on "make-believe" that was wholly exaggerated and at times "devoid of reality", said the judge who presided over her messy divorce from Paul McCartney. p'Shoah fills us with shame' - Merkel
GERMANY: IN A historic first-ever address by a German chancellor to the Israeli parliament, Angela Merkel told Israeli lawmakers yesterday that the Holocaust fills her countrymen "with shame" and vowed to work against the danger of a nuclear Iran, saying Germany would always stand by Israel. pExiled leader warns he will step down if violence explodes
TIBET: THE DALAI Lama said yesterday he would resign as leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile if violence veers out of control in Tibet and denied accusations from China that he was inciting riots. pKillings by two old ladies for insurance straight out of 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
US: Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay are accused of murdering two homeless men and collecting on their insurance policies. All their story lacks is Cary Grant, writes Karl Vick in Los Angeles pCrucial legal case begins in US over gun laws
US: THE US capital's strict gun control law faced a barrage of sceptical questions yesterday from the US supreme court's conservatives. pFatah government losing support among Palestinians, poll reveals
MIDDLE EAST: THE US-BACKED Palestinian leadership is losing popular support and the Fatah government is regarded as less legitimate than the rump Hamas cabinet dissolved last July, a new poll has found. p'English Patient' director Minghella dies at age of 54
BRITAIN: BRITISH FILM director Anthony Minghella, who won an Oscar for The English Patient , died in a London hospital yesterday after a short illness, his agent said. He was 54. pHamas says it is open to Yemeni peace initiative
MIDDLE EAST: A TOP Hamas official said his group was ready to accept a Yemeni bid for reconciliation with Fatah, which voiced willingness to start a national dialogue when its Islamist rival agrees to the terms of Yemen's initiative. pIn Short
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