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- Firm shelves city biomass plant
- Road chaos in icy 'perfect storm'
- Budget cash announced for councils
- Section 30 independence vote urged
- FM 'can officially complain to BBC'
- McKinnon's ordeal like 'execution'
- Cash and drugs seized during raids
- No Army base 'would create outrage'
- Referendum views 'need to be aired'
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It’s repression with panache as Arkadag leads people to polls
His subjects call him Arkadag: the Patron. He is president, prime minister and commander of the armed forces; the undisputed leader of a country holding 4 per cent of the world’s gas reserves.
US repossessions deal £25bn slap in face for homeless, says campaigner
Struggling American homeowners are set for mortgage relief as part of a landmark multi-billion dollar settlement by banks over flawed and fraudulent home repossessions.
Last Soviet leader warns Russian PM ‘exhausted’
PRIME minister Vladimir Putin has “exhausted” his potential as Russia’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev has declared, saying Mr Putin’s inability to change the Kremlin’s political system might prompt more anti-government protests.
Race row heir is ‘man of generation’, says lawyer
An HEIR to the Guerlain perfume empire went on trial yesterday in Paris on charges he made racist insults on television.
Mourning day for Greenland
Greenland declared a day of mourning yesterday after an eight-year-old girl and two women were bludgeoned to death and two men seriously injured in a remote Inuit village.
Ukraine refusing jailed former premier painkillers, claims daughter
The daughter of jailed former Ukrainian premier Yulia Tymoshenko has accused prison authorities of subjecting her mother to “horrendous” suffering by denying her painkillers. Tymoshenko is serving seven years on charges of abuse of office after a trial that the West has condemned as being politically motivated. She has been bedridden at a prison in eastern Ukraine, complaining of severe back pain and accusing authorities of denying her proper medical care.
Crusading judge banned for 11 years over tapping
Spain’s Supreme Court disbarred Judge Baltasar Garzon for 11 years yesterday for illegally tapping defence lawyers’ conversations, a move which may effectively end his career in international human rights trials.
Maldives sanctions arrest of ex-president
A MALDIVES court has issued an arrest warrant for former president Mohamed Nasheed, after his supporters rampaged in the capital and his claim of being removed by a coup left unclear the stability of the fledging Indian Ocean democracy.
Iraqi Shiites rally after troops leave
FOLLOWERS of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr smashed symbolic British and Israeli flags as they celebrated the US withdrawal from Iraq in the Shiite stronghold of Sadr City in Baghdad yesterday.
Al-Qaeda’s new leader Zawahiri welcomes latest recruits: Somalia’s al-Shabaab
THE Somali militant group al-Shabaab has formally joined al-Qaeda, according to a video translation released yesterday of a message from al-Qaeda’s new leader.
Iran barters with gold and oil to pay for food
Iran is turning to barter – offering gold bullion in overseas vaults or tanker-loads of oil – in return for food as new financial sanctions have hurt its ability to import basics for its 74 million people, traders have revealed.
William Hague spells out Afghan security deal
BOTH the UK and US remain committed to a timetable for withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, Foreign Secretary William Hague has told MPs.
Deal on Greek austerity cuts
Greece has reached a tentative agreement on new austerity cuts demanded by creditors to release a €130 billion (£109 bn) bailout, hours before a crucial meeting of finance ministers in Brussels.
Sack cabinet, army is urged
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on the ruling generals to sack the military-appointed interim government, saying it has failed to manage the deteriorating security and economic situation in the country.
Gaddafi linked rebels take town in Mali
Malian government forces have been forced to flee a Tuareg insurgency.
Germans drown in leisure sea trip
Three German tourists have drowned after their sightseeing submarine sank off the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Hurghada.
SS flag row marines ‘have moved on’
The US Marine Corps has said that one of its scout sniper teams in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the Nazi SS.
Uganda refuses to back anti–gay move
Uganda’s government does not support an MP’s decision to reintroduce a bill that originally proposed the death penalty for some homosexual acts, the government has said.
Beijing sets out air pollution measures
China’s heavily polluted capital, Beijing, plans to cut air pollution levels by 15 per cent by 2015 and 30 per cent by 2020 through phasing out old cars, relocating factories and planting forests, state media has said.
US drone strike hits its Taleban target
A SECOND US drone attack in two days in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region killed five people yesterday, including a senior militant commander with links to al-Qaeda, Pakistani intelligence officials and Taleban sources said.
Power cut fear in big freeze
Serbia is struggling to keep its power system going after weeks of record low temperatures, at times reaching -36C.
Building destroyed by earthquake did not meet safety standards
A BUILDING that collapsed and killed more than 100 people in Christchurch following the New Zealand earthquake did not meet standards when it was built, the country’s government said today.
Syria: Government bombardment of Homs intensifies video
BETWEEN rocket blasts and mortar fire, Syrians used loudspeakers to call for blood donations and medical supplies yesterday in the besieged city of Homs.
Syria: Words and rhetoric amid the bloodshed video
SYRIA’S army pounded the rebel city of Homs yesterday as Turkey sought international action to protect civilians from former ally president Bashar al-Assad, a move that risks the wrath of Russia and China.
760m years old, this fossil may be our earliest ancestor Picture gallery
RESEARCHERS at the University of St Andrews have discovered what they think are the remains of our earliest known ancestor.
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Grouchy tiger, hidden dragon: Party boss and top cop fall out
ONE of China’s most famous gang-busting policemen has disappeared after trying to seek asylum in America following a fall-out with one of China’s most powerful local politicians.
Analysis: Veil of anonymity for those who shelter the refugees
SHE found the newly-weds sleeping in a park. Frightened and with nothing but the clothes in which they had fled, they lay together, shivering against the cold.
China hits out at Hague’s criticism of UN veto
CHINA has lashed out at Foreign Secretary William Hague, saying his criticism of Beijing’s veto of a United Nations resolution pressing Syrian president Bashar al-Assad to abandon power was “extremely irresponsible”.
Syria: Putin condemns west’s ‘policy of interference’
Vladimir Putin has said the world faces a growing “cult of violence” and Moscow must not let events such as those in Libya and Syria be repeated in Russia, warning the west against interference in a country he intends to lead for years to come.
Norway’s relation with China still frozen over Nobel award
Norway’s prime minister has said its rift with China has not healed since the row over the 2010 award of the Nobel Peace Prize to jailed Chinese dissident, Liu Xiaobo.
Turkmen police is dad’s army
TURKMENISTAN has named a police unit after the authoritarian president’s father.
Piracy costs $7bn, mostly to benefit of security firms
Somali piracy in the Indian Ocean costs the global economy around $7 billion (£4.4bn) a year, a new study has said, with ships forced to travel faster over longer routes and hire armed guards.
Winter freeze hits crime in Serbia
Serbia’s interior minister has said the big European freeze has cut crime in Serbia by some 40 per cent.
Iran MPs want to cut off oil to EU
More than two-thirds of Iran’s MPs have endorsed a statement calling for cutting off oil sales to the European Union before EU sanctions go into effect.
Somalia car bomb claims eight lives
A CAR bomb killed eight people and injured two MPs in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu yesterday, in an attack claimed by a spokesman for Somalia’s Islamist insurgency.
Wedding guests die in bus collision
At LEAST 23 members of a wedding party were killed after their bus collided with a truck in northern India.
Czech presidency vote is approved
The Czech parliament has approved changing the constitution to let the public elect the country’s presidents instead of MPs.
Self–immolation in Tibet continues
An ETHNIC Tibetan has set himself on fire in south-western China in protest against Chinese rule, an exiled rights group said yesterday.
Nato to extend Baltic umbrella
NATO has decided to extend an operation to protect the airspace of Baltic members Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania with fighter jets.
Watching porn costs politicians their posts
Three Indian politicians from a morally conservative party, including a women’s affairs minister, have resigned after being caught watching pornography on a mobile phone during a session of state parliament.
Senegalese president’s motorcade is attacked
Clashes erupted between Senegalese security forces and anti-government demonstrators in the regional capital of Thies, where the country’s president was planning to hold a campaign rally yesterday.
Breakthrough in search for life miles below Antarctic ice
After more than two decades of drilling in the Antarctic wastes, Russian scientists have reached a huge freshwater lake – hidden under miles of ice for 20 million years – that may hold clues to the first life on Earth.
Egyptian PM defies US over prosecution of aid workers
Egypt’s military-backed prime minister has said it will not halt its crackdown on foreign-funded pro-democracy groups despite “threats” by western and Arab countries to cut off aid.
Italian MEP backs curb on credit rating firms
AN ITALIAN politician wants to ban the publication of sovereign credit ratings for countries that do not want them.
CIA drone attack kills ten fighters
AN AMERICAN drone aircraft killed ten suspected militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border yesterday, the fifth such strike this year.
Immigrants swell Canada’s population
Canada’s population grew by 5.9 per cent to 33.5 million over the last five years on the strength of immigration, the fastest growth rate in the Group of Eight leading industrialised nations
Arizona poll row brews
Arizona’s supreme court has ruled that a city council candidate with limited English skills could be kept off the ballot in a predominately Spanish-speaking town on the Mexico border.
Kenyans to sue UK over ‘abuse’ in 1950s uprising
Thousands of elderly Kenyans are preparing to sue the British government over abuses – including torture, illegal detention and rape – its forces allegedly committed during its suppression of the 1950s Mau Mau rebellion, a lawyer representing the group said yesterday.
Analysis: More women in political leadership will mean better government
Would the world be more peaceful if women were in charge? A challenging new book by the Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker says that the answer is “yes”.
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