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Zimbabwe's MDC opposition offices raided by police
ZIMBABWE: UP TO 300 supporters of Zimbabwe's main opposition who were taking refuge at the party's Harare headquarters from post-election violence were arrested yesterday after armed police raided their offices and those of independent election monitors. p
Comments by former pastor keep Obama on defensive
US: BARACK OBAMA has sought to calm a renewed
controversy over his former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, who said this
week that the Democratic presidential candidate was acting as "a
politician" in denouncing his controversial sermons. p
Court clears police of all charges over NY shooting
US: A JUDGE in New York yesterday cleared three detectives on all charges involved in the killing of Seán Bell, the bridegroom who died in a hail of 50 police bullets outside a nightclub hours before his wedding. p
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Iraq's women stepping into the breach as husbands vanish through violence
IRAQ: Countless numbers of Iraqi women have been obliged to take on tough new roles and family responsibilities now that their menfolk are missing, writes Ernesto Londono , in Baghdad pRejection of Gaza truce plan adds to Hamas difficulties
MIDDLE EAST: THE DISMISSAL yesterday by Israel of a proposal for a six-month ceasefire in Gaza has placed Hamas and Cairo in a difficult situation. pIran says US did not fire at vessel in gulf
IRAN: Iran denied yesterday that there had been any confrontation between its forces and a US vessel in the Gulf, Iranian media reported, after a US official said a vessel contracted by the US Military Sealift Command fired on an Iranian vessel. pAl-Sadr calls for end to clashes with Iraqi army
MIDDLE EAST: IRAQI PRIME Minister Nuri al-Maliki received a boost yesterday when Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called for an end to clashes with the Iraqi army and said his followers would wage war only against foreign forces. pAtomic Energy Agency to investigate US Syria claims
UN: THE INTERNATIONAL Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said yesterday it would investigate US claims Syria had tried to build a nuclear reactor with North Korean help, but "deplored" the delay in handing evidence to its inspectors. pIndian soap operas in firing line as Afghan regime cracks down on 'un-Islamic' TV
AFGHANISTAN: TV stations see a political agenda behind state's support for a religious-inspired ban on popular programmes, writes Jon Boone in Kabul pMedia curbs backed after Putin denies divorce claim
RUSSIA: Russian politicians have voted for restrictions on the news media after a Moscow newspaper reported that Russian president Vladimir Putin had divorced his wife and planned to marry a champion gymnast. pChurch tackles plague of 'pastoral plagiarists'
POLAND: POLAND'S 28,000 Catholic priests have been told by church authorities that they may be fined if they are discovered to have plagiarised their sermons from the internet, and could face three years in prison. pEU ruling blocks Malta's quail hunt
MALTA: THE TRADITIONAL spring hunt for wild quails and turtle doves in Malta could be outlawed following a ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in a case pitting hunters against conservationists on the popular tourist island. pAnglers reeling as buyer nets profit
CHINA: THREE HONG Kong anglers thought they had hit the big time when they sold their rare giant fish for HK$20,000 (€1,650), but they missed out on a HK$1 million (€82,000) bonanza from a mainland Chinese restaurant. p'Moonies' founder hands reins to son (28)
US: SUN MYUNG Moon, the founder of the Unification Church, known as the "Moonies", has handed over control of the movement to his Harvard-educated youngest son in what is being seen as an attempt to broaden the controversial religious organisation's appeal. pDisquiet over forced separation of sect's mothers and children
US: THE CALL to a Texas child protection hotline on March 29th could hardly have been more alarming. The caller said she was a 16-year-old victim of physical and sexual abuse at Yearning for Zion, a ranch run by a polygamous sect. pSinger Winehouse under arrest over suspected assault
BRITAIN: SINGER AMY Winehouse has been arrested on suspicion of assault after voluntarily attending a police station in London. pNew study supports theory that chickens are closest living descendants of dinosaurs
US: PROTEIN RETRIEVED from a 68-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex bone closely resembles the main protein in chicken and ostrich bones and is only distantly related to lizards, strengthening the popular idea that birds, not reptiles, are the closest living descendants of dinosaurs. pIn short
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