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Labour grapples with party unrest ahead of key votes
THE SPECTRE of defeat over the detention of terror suspects was
revived yesterday as the Labour government battled to avoid a
backbench rebellion in a crucial budget vote ahead of next week's
local and London elections. p
Olympic protesters turn attention to sponsors
OLYMPICS: THE LINKED rings on every Chinese Coke
bottle and the leaping athletes on each McDonald's paper bag
testify to the power the world's biggest corporations believe this
summer's Olympics wields. p
Voting brisk in Pennsylvania as sniping continues
US: VOTING was brisk across Pennsylvania yesterday as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made final pitches to voters in the state's Democratic primary. p
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German court ruling inconclusive as former Stasi spies fight for privacy
GERMANY: FOR NINE years, Holm Singer spied on friends and work colleagues for the East German secret police, the Stasi. pEU agriculture policies blamed for food-price riots
EU: EU AGRICULTURE policies are partly to blame for riots sparked by rising food prices across the globe, the European Parliament in Strasbourg heard yesterday. pChildren's teeth found in former Jersey home
UK: Specialists searching suspected underground "punishment rooms" in the former Jersey children's home at the centre of abuse claims, have found children's teeth, it was revealed yesterday. pGreece bans lamb in dispute over Macedonia name
GREECE: MACEDONIAN LAMB has become the latest victim of Greece's demand that its Balkan neighbour change its name, after Athens banned imports of the meat ahead of this weekend's Orthodox Easter celebrations, when it is normally eaten by the tonne. pEthnic Serb soldiers sentenced for 1992 murders of civilians
BOSNIA: Bosnia's war crimes court yesterday sentenced an ethnic Serb former soldier to 29 years in jail and two others to 21 years each for the killing of 23 Muslim civilians early in the country's 1992-1995 war. pBulgarian ministers sacked in graft purge
BULGARIA: Bulgaria's prime minister, Sergei Stanishev, sacked three cabinet ministers yesterday to avert the threatened loss of millions in EU aid over Sofia's failure to tame corruption and crime. pZimbabwe-bound weapons freighter may now return to China with cargo
ZIMBABWE: A CHINESE-OWNED freighter carrying weapons destined for Zimbabwe may return to China following the apparent refusal of four southern African countries to facilitate the cargo's delivery. pZuma calls for quick end to results delay
GERMANY: South African ruling party leader Jacob Zuma said yesterday Africa must send a mission to Zimbabwe to end a delay in issuing election results, which he called unacceptable. pIllegal opening of boxes renders recount futile
ZIMBABWE: INDEPENDENT ELECTION monitors say they have seen significant irregularities, including the illicit opening of ballot boxes, that makes the partial recount under way of Zimbabwe's election an exercise in "futility". pChinese police open fire on mine-construction protest
CHINA: POLICE IN southwestern China opened fire on protesters trying to block the construction of a gold mine earlier this week. pHamas to respond to call for truce with Israel
GAZA: Hamas plans to give Egyptian mediators its final response tomorrow to a proposed truce with Israel, a Hamas official said yesterday. pColombian authorities order arrest of president's cousin
COLOMBIA: Colombian authorities yesterday ordered the arrest of president Alvaro Uribe's cousin and one of his closest allies for suspected ties to paramilitary death squads in a deepening political scandal. pIn short
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