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Crackdown in Tibet dominates Taiwan elections
CHINA: China's actions may have damaged the chances
of the Beijing-friendly KMT party, writes
Clifford Coonan p
Hispanic governor gives his backing to Obama
US: SENATOR BARACK Obama has received a long-sought
endorsement from Bill Richardson, a former rival for the Democratic
presidential nomination, in a boost for his campaign after its most
difficult month to date. p
Cypriot leaders agree on fresh negotiations to reunify the island
CYPRUS: NEWLY ELECTED president of Cyprus Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat agreed yesterday to launch fresh negotiations to reunify the island, divided since Turkey occupied the north in 1974. p
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Judges to rule on case for closure of Turkey's AKP
TURKEY: A PROSECUTOR has called for Turkey's ruling AK Party (AKP) to be closed down, in a move that has been described as the final reckoning between establishment secularists and a former Islamist party in power since 2002. p5,000 protest in Kabul over reprinting of cartoon
AFGHANISTAN: SOME 5,000 Afghans chanted "death to Denmark" and "death to The Netherlands" in Kabul yesterday, protesting against the reprinting of a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers and a Dutch film on the Koran. pRussian journalist found strangled
RUSSIA: A RUSSIAN television journalist who had reported from the turbulent North Caucasus region was found strangled in his Moscow apartment yesterday, prosecutors said. pSerbia denies plan to partition Kosovo
SERBIA: PRESIDENT BORIS Tadic has denied that Serbia wants to partition Kosovo along ethnic lines and has denounced a senior ally of nationalist prime minister Vojislav Kostunica for conducting dangerous policies in Kosovo without government approval. pSarkozy announces cuts in France's nuclear arsenal
FRANCE: FRENCH PRESIDENT Nicolas Sarkozy announced cuts in France's atomic arsenal yesterday, but vowed to keep a strong enough deterrent against threats such as the possibility of a nuclear-armed Iran. pEverest hitch to Olympic torch journey
NEPAL: Bearing the Olympic flame up Mount Everest was meant to be the highlight of the relay. But two days before the torch is lit in Ancient Olympia the gesture appears to have backfired. pNew writing genre of 'blog-lit' lifts coveted Japanese prize
JAPAN: A singer-songwriter has astonished literary conservatives, writes David McNeill in Tokyo pIsraeli passenger aircraft to carry anti-missile flares
MIDDLE EAST: ISRAEL IS to begin fitting some of its passenger aircraft with flares to counter potential missile attacks, according to defence officials. pFailure to rerun Michigan a blow to Clinton
US: The effort to schedule a June revote for the Michigan Democratic primary has collapsed, dealing a potentially serious blow to Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. pSecurity council reform: draft proposal circulated
UN: Cyprus and Germany have circulated a draft text which proposes adding seven new members to the UN Security Council, the latest attempt to try to break a deadlock on the issue of expanding the council. pUN asks top donors for extra $1.1bn in funding
UN: THE UNITED NATIONS this month presented its top donors with a request for nearly $1.1 billion (€712 million) in additional funds over the next two years, boosting current UN expenses by 25 per cent and marking the organisation's highest-ever administrative budget, according to internal UN memos. pBhutto's son set to name Pakistan's prime minister
PAKISTAN: BENAZIR BHUTTO'S teenage son and political heir, Bilawal, will announce the identity of Pakistan's next prime minister by the end of this weekend, his party has said, ending weeks of backroom wrangling and setting the stage for a confrontation between the new government and the embattled president, Pervez Musharraf. pIn short
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