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TENSION BETWEEN India and Pakistan deepened yesterday as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice tried to persuade New Delhi to adopt a more measured stance towards Islamabad after last week's terrorist strike on Mumbai that claimed more than 180 lives, writes
Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
JUST TWO weeks after French police arrested Garikoitz Aspiazu, the alleged leader of Eta, two gunmen yesterday afternoon shot and killed Ignacio Uria, a leading Basque businessman, as he left his office to meet a group of friends in a restaurant for a game of cards, writes
Jane Walker in Madrid
FAMINE, ISOLATION, a collapsing economy and a leader reportedly near death - times are tough for North Korea, writes
David McNeill in Tokyo
A worker dismissed for joining a union is in the national spotlight, writes
Nicholas Birch in Istanbul
A PROMINENT Conservative councillor has resigned because of the disclosure of her close associations with the Provisional IRA in the early 1970s, writes
Dan Keenan , Northern News Editor
UNITED NATIONS, New York – The International Criminal Court prosecutor told the United Nations yesterday to prepare to arrest Sudan’s president if he is indicted on genocide charges, and not to protect him in a “cover-up”.
LEADING ZIMBABWEAN human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was abducted from her home at dawn yesterday by a group of armed plain-clothes men who identified themselves as police. Her whereabouts are now unknown, writes
Patrick Smyth
OTTAWA – Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper was due to address the nation last night as part of a high-stakes political and constitutional battle over whether the opposition should be allowed to replace his government.
A roundup of today's other international news stories in brief .
Plain-speaking president says market could stabilise in the last half of 2009Oversupply of properties is one of the big problems with the current market, IAVI president Edward Carey tells Rose Doyle
Sifting reality from mythFor many, Babylon represents excess, greed and sexual licence, but its rich culture gave us the first numbers, law-making and astronomy
If you can't sell, swap: how the rich do itA Dublin property developer has acquired the Canadian embassy residence on nine acres opposite Bono's house in Kiliney in exchange for a D6 home - and €3m
Donations to political parties not given to support democracyAt last, it's official: people give political donations not because of altruistic concerns for democracy but because they want an "in" with ministers - and Des Richardson has confirmed it
Asexual revolution breaks out in the labUCD researchers have discovered a deadly fungus that may help transplant and other patients who are at high risk from a common fungus, writes Claire O'Connell