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MDC will not contest any run-off election in Zimbabwe
ZIMBABWE : ZIMBABWE'S MAIN opposition party has made it clear it will not take part in any second-round run-off of the presidential election against incumbent Robert Mugabe. p
China claims to have foiled Olympic terror attack plots
CHINA : Chinese authorities have foiled plots
to kidnap foreigners and carry out suicide attacks around the
Beijing Olympics, police said yesterday, in a fresh blow to the
image of harmony China has sought to promote before the games. p
Berlusconi retracts remarks on president after furore
ITALY : AS IT comes down to the wire, Italy's
general election contest is getting a bit heated. For most of this
campaign the tone of the electoral debate has, by Italian
standards, been restrained and dignified with much less of the
personalised mud-slinging that has marked other campaigns. p
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Bush orders freeze on troop withdrawals from Iraq
UNITED STATES: PRESIDENT GEORGE Bush has ordered an indefinite halt to troop withdrawals from Iraq from July, effectively ensuring that a substantial US military presence will remain in that country when he leaves office next January. p'There are to be two dead farmers' here by Monday
ZIMBABWE: REPORTS CONTINUE to emerge from Zimbabwe of seizures of land from white farmers by groups of so-called "war veterans" with the apparently tacit encouragement of the government. pCowen set to be invited to Olympics opening ceremony
CHINA: THE LEADER designate of Fianna Fáil, Brian Cowen, is to be invited to the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in the coming weeks. pUS debate heats up over extent of Iran's role in Iraq
UNITED STATES: The perceived enemy for US troops has changed once again following Gen Petraeus's testimony to Congress, writes PETER SPIEGEL . pNo-confidence vote in Bulgarian government takes place today
BULGARIA: THE PARLIAMENT of Bulgaria will hold a vote of no-confidence in the government today, amid a spate of lurid murders, allegations of high-level corruption and the release of a report that suggests drug-trafficking through the country helps to fund radical Islamic groups. pHigh food price trend hard to reverse, says UN expert
INDIA: Nations will move to increase food supplies but the world is living through a structural shift towards higher food prices that will be hard to reverse, the chief of a United Nations agency fighting rural poverty has said. pLas Vegas lakeside will offer leaders a route to 'the highest place within'
UNITED STATES: FORGET CAMP David, Chequers and Versailles. The next time George Bush, Gordon Brown or Nicolas Sarkozy need a bolthole in which to recharge their batteries, they might find themselves lured to a new retreat on the shores of Lake Las Vegas, a privately owned lake in Nevada. pSlovakia ratifies Lisbon Treaty despite media law row
SLOVAKIA: SLOVAKIA'S PARLIAMENT ratified the EU's Lisbon Treaty last night, after a small ethnic-Hungarian party split with other opposition groups and pledged to support the accord. pIn Short
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