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  • Congress protects firms from wiretap lawsuits

    Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan is sworn in to testify in Washington yesterday before the House judiciary committee hearing to investigate vice-president Dick Cheney's role in the leak of Valerie Plame's CIA identity. Photograph: Susan Walsh/AP US: THE US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a new domestic spying bill that protects telecommunications companies from legal action for helping president George Bush's warrantless phone and computer tapping. p

  • Protesters besiege Thai government

    Anti-government protesters surround police vans after breaking through the riot police barrier outside Government House in Bangkok. Photograph: Udo Weitz/Bloomberg THAILAND: POLITICAL TENSIONS in Thailand grew yesterday when thousands of protesters, demanding that the five-month-old government quit, pushed through police lines to lay siege to Government House. p
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  • Modest progress in Cyprus negotiations

    CYPRUS: GREEK AND Turkish Cypriot negotiators yesterday announced a modest breakthrough in the four-year stalemate in talks on the re- unification of Cyprus, divided since Turkey occupied the north in 1974. p

  • South Korea's president faces wave of protests

    South Korean's Lee Myung-bak: replaced all his top aides SOUTH KOREA:  South Korea's embattled president, Lee Myung-bak, replaced all his top aides yesterday in a bid to make a fresh start after policy blunders sparked massive street protests against his four-month-old government. p

  • Security tight in Tibetan capital for Olympic torch relay arrival

    CHINA: SECURITY WAS tight in Lhasa as the city geared up for the arrival of the Olympic torch today, with a shortened relay planned for the Tibetan capital following anti-Chinese protests in March. p

  • Ukraine mired in crisis as PM's allies block work of parliament

    UKRAINE: UKRAINE IS again teetering on the brink of political crisis, as allies of Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko block the work of parliament and the opposition demands the immediate dissolution of her pro-western government. p

  • Naomi Campbell given more community service

    Supermodel Naomi Campbell hides her face at Uxbridge magistrates court in London. Photograph: Luke MacGregor/Reuters BRITAIN: SUPERMODEL NAOMI Campbell was ordered yesterday to do 200 hours of unpaid community service after admitting kicking and spitting at police officers as she "went berserk" when her luggage went missing during the Heathrow airport Terminal 5 baggage fiasco. p

  • End of slavery day a timely reminder of Poor People's Campaign

    AMERICA: While the rich have seen their fortunes multiply in the last 40 years, the lot of the poor is unchanged, writes Denis Staunton p

  • Obama and Clinton to campaign together

    US: BARACK OBAMA and Hillary Clinton will campaign together next week for the first time since the former first lady left the presidential race. p

  • Israel tight-lipped on report of attack rehearsal

    MIDDLE EAST: THE ISRAELI military would not make any specific comment yesterday about a report that it had recently carried out extensive aerial manoeuvres that appeared to be a rehearsal for an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, but Israeli military experts said it was "logical" that the air force would be training for such a mission. p

  • 'Pregnancy pact' suspected among teens in US high school

    US:  An investigation is under way in a Massachusetts city into an apparent teenage "pregnancy pact" that has at least 17 high-school girls expecting babies, four times more than last year, including many aged 16 or younger. p

  • UN acts against rape as a 'military tactic'

    UN:  The UN Security Council has demanded that warring governments and factions act to halt violence against women, saying rape was no longer just a byproduct of war but a military tactic. p

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