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US presses for Ukraine to join Nato ahead of summit
US: US PRESIDENT George Bush
has pledged to do everything possible to secure a Nato invitation
for Ukraine and Georgia and insisted that Russian anger will not be
enough to stymie their membership bids at the alliance summit today
in Romania, writes
Daniel McLaughlin . p
Sarkozy's Afghan troop plan criticised in assembly debate
FRANCE: FRENCH DEPUTIES felt so aggrieved that president Nicolas Sarkozy announced the reinforcement of French troops in Afghanistan in Westminster last week that they demanded to hold their own debate in the national assembly yesterday, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris. p
EU court ruling boosts pension rights of same-sex couples
EU: EUROPE'S HIGHEST court has ruled that gay partners are entitled to survivor's pensions in EU states where homosexual couples have partnership rights similar to marriage, writes Jamie Smyth , European Correspondent. p
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Gay couple visit Warsaw in response to use of wedding clip in Kaczynski TV address
POLAND: TWO WEEKS ago, Drogheda-born gay activist Brendan Fay and his partner, Tom Moulton, made an unexpected appearance on Polish national television, writes Derek Scally in Berlin. pFinnish minister sacked over text messages to dancer
FINLAND: FINNISH FOREIGN minister Ilkka Kanerva was sacked yesterday after a gossip magazine published suggestive text messages he sent to an erotic dancer, writes Derek Scally . pPolish lower house votes strongly for Lisbon Treaty
POLAND: THE LOWER house of the Polish parliament backed the European Union's reform treaty yesterday, allaying concerns that Poland could trip up its ratification across the bloc. pZimbabwe results put opponents alongside ruling party
ZIMBABWE: AS SPECULATION ran rife in Harare over the future of president Robert Mugabe, a trickle of parliamentary election results continued to emerge suggesting the prospects of a tight parliament, writes Bill Corcoran in Johannesburg. pB-movies rule in long wait for figures
ZIMBABWE: THESE LAST few feverish days in Zimbabwe have provided a particular challenge for the schedulers of state television - not to mention the usually slavishly sycophantic editors on state newspapers, writes Alec Russell . pChad says Sudan-backed rebels have breached recent accord
CHAD: CHAD HAS accused Sudan-backed rebels of launching a fresh offensive yesterday, less than a month after the two countries signed a non-aggression pact, writes Rob Crilly in Khartoum. pIntimidation closes acclaimed film about shrine to Japanese war dead
JAPAN: A CRITICALLY acclaimed film about Yasukuni shrine, Japan's controversial memorial to millions of dead soldiers, has been pulled from Tokyo cinemas amid a campaign of right-wing intimidation and death threats against the distributors, writes David McNeill in Tokyo. pChinese say Tibetans planning suicide attacks
CHINA: CHINA ACCUSED the Dalai Lama and his supporters yesterday of plotting suicide attacks in the wake of last month's violent protests in Lhasa. p'We don't need the help of others . . . to settle the Tibetan problem'
IRELAND: LIU BIWEI, China's ambassador to Ireland, talks of the Dalai Lama and the Olympics in an interview with Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent. pNew road to Damascus paved with Arab unity and rising affluence
SYRIA: SYRIA REMAINS the 'beating heart of Arabism' while also embracing modernism, writes Michael Jansen . pClinton vows to stay in race and fight like 'Rocky'
US Elections: HILLARY CLINTON has compared herself to fictional boxing legend Rocky Balboa, declaring that she will not bow to pressure to withdraw from the Democratic presidential race, writes Denis Staunton in Washington. pChinese ATM thief has life term cut to five years
CHINA: A MIGRANT worker who was jailed for life for stealing €16,000 from a faulty cash machine has had his term reduced to five years after a public outcry prompted a retrial, writes Clifford Coonan in Beijing. pScientists identify smallest black hole ever found
US: NASA SCIENTISTS have identified the smallest black hole ever found - less than four times the mass of our Sun and about the size of a large city. pIn Short
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