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Protesters gather in their thousands to oppose relay
US: CONFUSION SURROUNDED the start of the relay of
the Olympic torch through San Francisco yesterday, as thousands of
China supporters and protesters converged along the planned
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416 children feared at risk of abuse removed from polygamy sect
US: INTERVIEWS WITH hundreds of children removed from a polygamist sect in Texas have revealed that several underage girls were forced into "spiritual marriage" with much older men as soon as they reached puberty and were then made pregnant, according to investigators. p
Moscow's minorities live in fear after surge in murders
RUSSIA: Attacks by neo-Nazis rise as authorities are accused of underplaying the issue, writes PETER FINN p
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Zambia calls urgent regional summit over Zimbabwe crisis
ZIMBABWE: ZAMBIA YESTERDAY called an emergency
meeting of the Southern African Development Community for next
Saturday in Lusaka at which Zimbabwe's disputed elections will be
discussed amid fears of spreading violence and an exodus of
refugees. pEducation system onthe brink of collapseas teachers take flight
ZIMBABWE: An exodus of teachers to work abroad has left 150,000 vacancies that can't be filled, writes a correspondent in Mufakose, Zimbabwe pClinton vows to visit Ireland as president and proposes bonds scheme to aid North
US: HILLARY CLINTON has promised to visit Ireland during her first term as president and proposed a system of bonds to raise millions of dollars from Irish-Americans for economic development in the North. pObama stretches national lead by 10 points
US: HILLARY CLINTON is ahead by five points in Pennsylvania, where Democrats vote on April 22nd, but Barack Obama has a 10-point national lead, according to polls published yesterday. pPaisley begins four-day US visit
US: NORTHERN IRELAND'S First Minister the Rev Ian Paisley has begun a four-day visit to the United States in preparation for next month's investment conference in Belfast. pShannon Matthews' mother remanded in custody
BRITAIN: The mother of Shannon Matthews was remanded in custody yesterday when she appeared before magistrates accused of repeatedly concealing information about the whereabouts of her daughter. pBaby with two faces born in Indian village
INDIA: A BABY born with two faces - two
noses, two pairs of lips, two pairs of eyes - has been worshipped
as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess in her northern Indian
village, where the one-month old is healthy and doing well. pFrench vow to continue mission to help Betancourt
COLOMBIA: France will try to find another way
to help hostage Ingrid Betancourt after it abandoned a mission to
send a medical team to the Colombian jungle where she is held,
foreign minister Bernard Kouchner said yesterday.
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