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US sets goal to end its emissions growth by 2025
US: US PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday set a goal for the US to stop the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025, as he tried to head off more stringent measures from Congress and in international negotiations. p
Barroso downplays Irish fears and insists treaty is only common sense
EU: THE EU has no plan B if Ireland rejects Lisbon, EU Commission president José Manuel Barroso, who is in Dublin today, tells Jamie Smyth p
Bush backs pontiff's call to respect all human life
US: THOUSANDS OF well-wishers sang "Happy Birthday"
to Pope Benedict XVI on the South Lawn of the White House at the
start of his first visit to the United States since he succeeded
John Paul II three years ago. p
Israelis kill 19 Palestinians in Gaza strikes
MIDDLE EAST: AT LEAST 19 Palestinians, among them a Reuters cameraman, were killed yesterday in Israeli military strikes in Gaza just hours after three Israeli soldiers were killed in an ambush by Palestinian militants in the coastal strip. p
Other World Stories
Women in majority as Spain's cabinet gets to work
SPAIN: KING JUAN Carlos, accompanied by Queen Sofia, Crown Prince Felipe and other members of the royal family, yesterday formally opened the ninth legislature of the Spanish parliament since democracy was restored 30 years ago. Only on such state occasions is the crimson and gold tapestry canopy unfurled, the red carpet unrolled and the main door opened to admit the head of state. pCDU-Green coalition deal alters Germany's political landscape
GERMANY: GERMANY'S POLITICAL landscape experienced a minor earthquake in Hamburg yesterday when the Christian Democrats (CDU) agreed in principle to form a coalition with the Green Party. pTypical Berlusconi 'joke' does not appeal to all tastes
ITALY: MEDIA MAGNATE Silvio Berlusconi, winner of last weekend's Italian general election, may not have yet formally taken over the reins of power, but he has already provoked a minor international incident. pPutin orders closer ties with Abkhazia
RUSSIA: RUSSIA HAS announced that it will establish legal links with neighbouring Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, a move whicn Georgia has condemned as a breach of international law. pZanu-PF gangs beat opposition voters to teach them a lesson
ZIMBABWE: IT IS called Operation Makavhoterapapi - Shona for "Where did you put your cross?" - and it descended on 15-year-old Privilege Chikwana as she was doing her homework. pBan Ki-moon calls for UN role to resolve post-election crisis
UN: SOUTH AFRICA and its regional partners came under pressure at the United Nations yesterday to act decisively to resolve a political crisis in Zimbabwe that could ultimately pose a threat to international peace and security. pDash to biofuels a risk to poor
EGYPT: The demand for biofuels has combined with other issues to whip up a "perfect storm" on food prices and supply, writes Mary Fitzgerald from Alexandria in the second part of her series World food security pZuma speaks of 'deepening crisis'
SOUTH AFRICA: JACOB ZUMA, leader of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) party, has, in his toughest statement yet on Zimbabwe, expressed apprehension at the post-election deadlock there and its impact on its neighbours. pMistrial declared for alleged al-Qaeda plotters
US: A US judge declared a mistrial yesterday for six men accused of joining forces with al-Qaeda to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago as part of an Islamic jihad against the United States. p44 children killed in crash
INDIA: AT LEAST 44 schoolchildren and three adults were killed yesterday when their bus veered off a bridge and plunged into a canal in western India, police said. pObama's remarks not yet alienating voters, polls show
US: BARACK OBAMA and Hillary Clinton met in Philadelphia last night for their first debate in six weeks as new polls suggest that Mr Obama's controversial remarks about small-town Americans have yet to alienate many voters. pExecutions to resume in US as court challenge fails
US: DEATH CHAMBERS are set to reopen at prisons across the United States after the Supreme Court ruled that the lethal injection used for most executions does not violate a constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment. pPlight of N Korea's people may deteriorate into 'tragedy' - UN
NORTH KOREA: THE IMPOVERISHED existence of North Korea's 23 million inhabitants is at risk of deteriorating into "a tragedy", the UN food agency warned yesterday. pIn short
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