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Berlusconi poised to become Italian PM for third time
ITALY: MEDIA MAGNATE Silvio Berlusconi last
night looked poised to win the weekend's Italian general
election. p
Obama hits back over 'small-town' remarks
US: BARACK OBAMA has hit back at his presidential rivals over his description of small-town Americans as "bitter", describing Republican John McCain as out of touch and accusing Hillary Clinton of double talk over free trade. p
Zimbabwe court rejects call to release result
ZIMBABWE: ZIMBABWE'S HIGH court dashed hopes of a speedy resolution to the country's electoral crisis yesterday when it refused to order the immediate release of the presidential election result. p
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Chinese claim guns found after raid on Tibet temple
CHINA: CHINESE FORCES found firearms hidden
throughout a Tibetan temple in an ethnic Tibetan area of
southwestern China which has been the scene of anti-Chinese riots
in recent weeks, state television has reported. pUnesco destroyed 100,000 of its own books, audit reveals
FRANCE: FOR MORE than two decades, 250 historians and specialists laboured to produce the first six volumes of the General History of Latin America , an exhaustive work financed by Unesco, the UN organisation created to protect global culture and heritage. p24 executed each week last year, says Amnesty
WORLD AT LEAST 24 people a week were executed officially last year and a further 64 sentenced to death, Amnesty International said in a report, adding that this was likely to be an underestimate. pVatican expects pope's first US visit will come under intense scrutiny
VATICAN: The pontiff may respond to the "open wound" of clerical abuse within Catholic Church, writes Paddy Agnew in Rome pKosovars reject organs trade claim
KOSOVO: SENIOR FIGURES in Kosovo and Albania have angrily rejected allegations by former chief UN war crimes prosecutor Carla del Ponte that hundreds of Serb and other civilians were murdered for their organs at the end of the 1998-9 Kosovo war. pAlly says Merkel 'interested only in retaining power'
GERMANY: CHANCELLOR ANGELA Merkel has been attacked by a political ally as a Machiavellian leader interested only in retaining her grip on power. pBulgarian cabinet to be reshuffled as key minister resigns
BULGARIA: BULGARIA'S PRIME minister Sergei Stanishev is poised to reshuffle his cabinet after interior minister Rumen Petkov resigned following a string of crime and corruption revelations. pMaoists defy expectations by taking lead in Nepal poll
NEPAL: NEPAL IS in the throes of a massive political upheaval, with the Maoist party (Communist Party-Maoist) taking an unexpected and dramatic lead as counting continues in the first nationwide elections since 1999. pAl-Sadr's Mahdi Army remains focus for Maliki's struggling government
IRAQ: THE STRUGGLING Iraqi government of Nuri al-Maliki yesterday continued a two-pronged offensive against the populist movement headed by dissident Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. pSnubbed by Israel, Carter condemns Hamas rocket fire
ISRAEL: JIMMY CARTER yesterday condemned the firing of rockets by Palestinian militants from Gaza into Israel, but Israeli leaders continued to shun the former US president during his visit to the country because of his intention to meet the leaders of Hamas, which has been responsible for the firing of many of the rockets. pWagner family feud at an end
GERMANY: THE WAGNER family feud over who should take the helm at the Bayreuth opera festival appears to have ended with the daughters of the current head agreeing to call a truce and share the role. pTravel writer's claims cast doubt on credibility of 'Lonely Planet' guides
US: THE LANGUAGE was hardly typical of the chief executive of a respected travel guide publisher. "This is a s**t," Lonely Planet chief executive Judy Slatyer wrote to employees. "None of you deserve it, given the effort you put in." pPotter author tells court that fan 'copied' her work
US: HARRY POTTER author JK Rowling said yesterday that a bid by a fan to print an unofficial encyclopedic companion to the boy wizard series left her unsure if she had "the heart" to publish her own version. pRussia's foreign policy strategies fuelled by oil and gas power
EUROPEAN DIARY/JAMIE SMYTH: WHEN MIKHAIL Khodorkovsky was arrested on fraud charges at an airport close to the town of Ob in Siberia in October 2003, he was Russia's richest man. pIn Short
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