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  • Olympic flame runs into more trouble from Tibet protesters

    Police officers apprehend a demonstrator as he tries to interrupt the Olympic torch parade in Paris yesterday in protest at China's Police officers apprehend a demonstrator as he tries to interrupt the Olympic torch parade in Paris yesterday in protest at China's policies on human rights and Tibet. Security officials were forced to extinguish the Olympic torch several times. FRANCE: THE OLYMPIC flame was extinguished twice here yesterday. Protests by thousands of Free Tibet activists, the Green Party and the Reporters Without Borders group forced police to carry the torch in a bus for much of its journey. p

  • Tsvangirai urges world leaders to act against Mugabe

    Riot police keep watch outside the high court in Harare, Zimbabwe, yesterday. The court said it has jurisdiction to decide on an opposition bid to force the release of presidential election results, but has delayed the decision until today. ZIMBABWE: ZIMBABWE'S MAIN opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, yesterday called on world leaders "to take strong action" against president Robert Mugabe, saying a failure to act would call into question their democratic values. p

  • London inquest finds Diana was killed unlawfully

    Deputy commissioner Paul Stephenson and former Metropolitan police commissioner Lord Stevens speak to the press outside the High Court in London. UK: THE JURY at the inquests into the deaths of Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed last night finally and definitively decided that they had been unlawfully killed by a combination of the driving of their Mercedes by their chauffeur Henri Paul and the driving of following vehicles - the posse of paparazzi photographers who were dogging their final journey. p

  • Photographers cannot be prosecuted in Britain despite verdict

    UK: IN THE aftermath of the Paris crash photographers and press motorcyclists were hauled in by French police for questioning. The inquest heard that some took photographs of the scene from less than two metres away, with the dead and seriously injured clearly visible inside the mangled Mercedes, and while passers-by tried to help. p
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  • Russia's largest party wants Putin to lead it

    RUSSIA: VLADIMIR PUTIN has been offered the leadership of Russia's dominant political party, United Russia, when he gives up the presidency and becomes prime minister in May. p

  • Clinton loses strategist who pushed deal she opposed

    US: HILLARY CLINTON'S campaign is set to take a less combative approach following the resignation of her chief strategist Mark Penn, who was lobbying privately on behalf of a trade deal the New York senator publicly opposes. p

  • 42 arrested in Calabria in effort to stem Mafia warfare

    ITALY: SIMMERING GANGLAND warfare formed the background to a major police operation yesterday morning in and around Crotone in the southern Italian region of Calabria in which 42 alleged mafiosi were arrested. p

  • Maliki warns Sadrists on poll

    IRAQ: IRAQI PRIME minister Nuri al- Maliki has warned that the movement of radical Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will be barred from politics and taking part in coming elections unless its militia is disbanded. p

  • Israeli minister says Iran will be destroyed if it attacks

    ISRAEL: IN AN uncharacteristically blunt statement on a highly sensitive topic, a senior Israeli minister yesterday warned Iran that if it attacked Israel, it would draw an Israeli response that would spell the "end" of Iran. p

  • Iran rules out halting nuclear plans

    IRAN: Iran has ruled out halting or limiting sensitive nuclear work in exchange for trade and other incentives from major powers and instead suggested it could announce new developments in the programme this week. p

  • Farc hostage Betancourt still needs medical help, insists French minister

    FRANCE: Ingrid Betancourt, the hostage held by Colombia's Farc rebels, may not be as ill as previously thought, but Paris still wants a doctor to visit and treat her, France's foreign minister said yesterday. p

  • Incestuous relationship of father and daughter shocks Australia

    AUSTRLIA: AN AUSTRALIAN father and daughter who have conceived an apparently healthy child are being monitored by police and social services after going public about their incestuous relationship. p

  • Darfur's defiant rebel leader sticks to his price for peace talks

    DARFUR: Abdel Wahid el-Nur, known as 'Mr No', insists security must come before talks, writes Mary Fitzgerald , Foreign Affairs Correspondent. p

  • Italian politician issues call to 'arms'

    ITALY: NOT FOR the first time, Italy's Northern League leader Umberto Bossi finds himself at the centre of controversy after he issued a call to "arms" on Sunday by way of protest at the confusion created by the ballot papers that will be used at next weekend's general election. p

  • Workers picket EU summit over jobs

    EUROPEAN DIARY: THEY TRAVELLED in their thousands from all across Europe to Slovenia's picturesque capital Ljubljana to protest against low pay, corporate greed and rising prices. p

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