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OPENING Mideast peace talks under the shadow of fresh violence, US President Barack Obama vowed yesterday not to allow “extremists and rejectionists” to undercut long-stalled negotiations on creating a sovereign Palestinian state beside a secure Israel.
TONY BLAIR risked plunging the Labour leadership contest into civil war yesterday by issuing a warning to the party not to drift to the left.
THE US yesterday moved into the final phase of its military involvement in Iraq, with administration officials saying the war was ending even as the new commander of the remaining 50,000 troops warned of the ongoing threat from “hostile elements”.
POLICE shot a gunman and safely freed the three people he had taken hostage in an hours-long standoff at the Discovery Channel headquarters outside Washington, police said.
GREENPEACE said about 500,000 Facebook users have urged the world’s largest social network to abandon plans to buy electricity from a coal-based energy company for its new data centre in the US.
APPLE has unveiled new iPod media players, has added social-networking features to its iTunes software and introduced a service that lets users rent shows and movies.
GUNMEN in eastern Congo opened fired yesterday on a private plane carrying international aid workers at a landing strip. The workers escaped and were later rescued, workers from the International Medical Corps told the Associated Press.
BRITISH Foreign Secretary William Hague denied having an improper relationship with an adviser yesterday who resigned as a result of pressures placed on his family by “untrue and malicious allegations”.
PAKISTAN’S economic growth will plunge 2% due to the floods crisis and lead to massive job losses, the prime minister warned yesterday. Yousuf Raza Gilani said a fifth of the country’s irrigation infrastructure, livestock and crops were destroyed.
A HOST of celebrities from footballers to film stars appear in the pages of Tony Blair’s memoirs.
THREE bombs ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said.
GREEK smokers were under pressure to curb their habit as a new law banning smoking in public places went into effect in Europe’s most nicotine-addicted nation.
THE effort to save 33 men trapped deep in a Chilean mine was an unprecedented challenge, experts said yesterday.
TWO Yemeni men arrested on arrival from the United States on suspicion they may have been conducting a dry run for an airline terror attack were released without charge yesterday after investigations turned up no evidence to link them to a terror plot, Dutch prosecutors said.
A DOCTOR involved in an ‘on-again, off-again’ relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s home by sliding down the chimney, police in California said. Her decomposing body was found there three days later.
A SENIOR Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange yesterday, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.
THE High Court yesterday refused to ban a book which reveals that Top Gear’s The Stig is racing driver Ben Collins.
A MAN entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 million (€1.01m) painting said it disappeared while he was in a drunken haze, according to a lawsuit filed by a co-owner of the canvas.
POWERFUL Hurricane Earl wheeled toward the East Coast, driving the first tourists yesterday from North Carolina vacation islands and threatening damaging winds and waves up the Atlantic seaboard over Labour Day weekend.
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