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  • Clinton says latest win raised $10m for her campaign

    US: HILLARY CLINTON raised $10 million within 24 hours of winning Pennsylvania's primary this week, her campaign said yesterday as the New York senator campaigned in the next battleground state of Indiana. p

  • Fukuda to hold trade talks in Moscow

    Dmitry Medvedev: his support is sought on gas emissions RUSSIA: YASUO FUKUDA, Japan's prime minister, flies to Moscow today for talks aimed at strengthening the two countries' growing commercial relationship and winning Russian support for Japan's stance on global warming. p
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  • People flock to see Padre Pio's exhumed body

    ITALY: PADRE PIO still pulls them in. An estimated 15,000 pilgrims flocked to the small Puglia village of San Giovanni Rotondo yesterday to attend a Mass held to mark the day the saint's recently-exhumed body went on display for public veneration. p

  • Lithuania maintains EU-Russia talks veto

    LITHUANIA: EU FOREIGN ministers may not be able to agree a long-delayed mandate required to begin partnership talks with Russia next week due to continued opposition from Lithuania. p

  • Choirmaster who abused 40 girls escapes jail

    CZECH REPUBLIC:: IN THE former Eastern bloc's largest ever sexual abuse trial, a Czech court has found the director of the internationally acclaimed children's singing ensemble Bambini di Praga guilty of molesting 40 teenage girls between 1984 and 2003. p

  • Britain's summer sunshine could keep roads ice-free in winter

    BRITAIN: THE OLD question of how drivers of salt-spreading lorries get to work could soon be answered under British government plans to recycle summer sunshine collected by roads and use it to keep them ice-free in winter. p

  • 'Zimbabwe came through the barrel of the gun' said the gang

    ZIMBABWE: Eyewitnesses speak of broken limbs and burnt homes, writes a special correspondent in Harare p

  • Chinese snuff out Canberra torch protest

    AUSTRALIA: More than 10,000 Chinese Australians staged the biggest pro-Beijing rally of the protest-marred Olympic torch relay yesterday, bringing a sea of red Chinese flags and drowning out Tibetan demonstrators. p

  • Taliban leader in Pakistan declares ceasefire

    PAKISTAN: A SENIOR Taliban commander in Pakistan's tribal areas has declared a ceasefire as part of secret peace talks with the new civilian-led government. p

  • Rocketing rice prices put squeeze on the most vulnerable in Manila slums

    PHILIPPINES: Discontent is beginning to grow in the Philippines capital's poorest districts, as rice price hikes threaten the poor, writes Bruce Wallace in Manila p

  • Superdelegates want decision taken before convention

    US: HILLARY CLINTON'S Pennsylvania win has bought her time - but not much - to make her case to the Democratic Party's superdelegates, many of whom expressed a strong desire since the result to end the nominating contest once the final votes are cast. p

  • UN agencies stop Gaza services due to fuel embargo

    UN: UN AGENCIES yesterday suspended or curtailed humanitarian operations in Gaza due to Israel's fuel blockade. p

  • US alleges N Korea helped Syria build reactor

    US: The United States revealed intelligence yesterday it believes shows North Korea helped Syria build a suspected nuclear reactor destroyed by Israel last year, a step that may complicate its diplomacy on the Korean peninsula and in the Middle East. p

  • UN walkout at Libya's Holocaust view

    UN: Western UN envoys walked out of a Security Council discussion on Wednesday evening after Libya's UN ambassador likened the plight of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the Nazi Holocaust. p

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