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Securocrats seek to bolster Mugabe
ZIMBABWE: As Zanu-PF reels from scale of election
defeat, security chiefs are key to how regime responds, writes
Alec Russell p
Tories confident Johnson can oust Livingstone
BRITAIN: CONSERVATIVE CHALLENGER Boris Johnson has
a 10-point lead over Labour's Ken Livingstone with just a month to
go to polling day in London's mayoral election. p
Turkish courts to put party on trial
TURKEY: TURKEY'S TOP court voted yesterday to hear a case calling for the ruling party to be closed down, in a move that looks set to open the bitterest bout yet in a 50-year war pitting popularly elected governments against the secular establishment. p
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Where water and toilet paper are privileges
CUBA: Carol Williams describes a day in the life of a detainee at Guantánamo's detention centre pGore wants 10 million to lobby on climate
US: AL GORE yesterday launched a drive to mobilise 10 million volunteers to force politicians to act on climate change - twice as many as the number who marched against the Vietnam war or in support of civil rights during the heyday of US activism in the 1960s. pIsraelis unveil plan to expand West Bank settlement
MIDDLE EAST: Israel's Jerusalem municipality yesterday announced plans to build 600 new housing units in a Jewish settlement, in an area of the occupied West Bank the Israeli government considers part of the holy city. pEven in death, controversial Belgian author keeps debates alive
EUROPEAN DIARY: THE LIFE of Hugo Claus, one of Belgium's most renowned authors, was celebrated at a ceremony in Antwerp last Saturday following his death by euthanasia on March 19th. pPolish parliament to vote on Lisbon Treaty
POLAND: THE POLISH parliament will meet at noon today to vote on the Lisbon Treaty after a political standoff between the government and the opposition was resolved at the weekend. p'No evidence' Prince Philip ordered Diana's death
BRITAIN: A coroner said yesterday there was no evidence Queen Elizabeth's husband ordered the "execution" of Princess Diana in a 1997 car crash, dismissing the conspiracy theories of her late lover's father. pHungarian coalition's fall signals end of reforms
HUNGARY: Hungary's junior coalition party said yesterday it would quit the government in protest at Socialist Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany's refusal to back its economic reforms, but pledged not to force an early election. pViolence casts pall over Beijing as Olympic torch is lit
CHINA: SCENES OF tight security and carefully chosen cheerful Tibetans greeted the Olympic torch yesterday as it arrived on Beijing's Tiananmen Square to start its relay around the world before the Summer Games in August. pGroup calls for Tibet protests inquiry
CHINA: MEMBERS OF the Tibetan community in Ireland were among those who demonstrated in Dublin yesterday to support the Dalai Lama's call for an international investigation into China's crackdown on recent protests in Tibet. pGreece may veto Macedonia's bid to join Nato
GREECE: Ahead of Nato's summit in Romania, several applicant countries face opposition, writes Daniel McLaughlin pChad pardons French volunteers
CHAD: SIX FRENCH voluntary workers sentenced to eight years' hard labour for trying to illegally fly children out of Chad and hand them to European families were pardoned yesterday by Chad's president, Idriss Deby. pDith Pran, subject of 'Killing Fields' film on Cambodia atrocities, dies at 65
US: DITH PRAN, a journalist and human rights advocate who became a public face of the horrors in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge and whose life was portrayed in the influential film The Killing Fields, has died at 65 of pancreatic cancer. He lived in New Jersey. pIn short
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