BELGIUM: UN Security Council needed in Iran atomic row - EU
BRUSSELS, (Reuters): THE EUROPEAN Union called yesterday for the U.N. Security Council to step into the nuclear dispute with Iran, but stopped short of calling for Tehran's formal referral to the top world body for possible sanctions.
MIDEAST: Christians: Hamas win will bring Israel, evangelicals closer
JERUSALEM (AP): THE VICTORY of the militant Islamic Hamas in last week's Palestinian election will likely strengthen the relationship between Israel and evangelicals, Israeli parliament members and Christian leaders said yesterday.
CHILE: Court grants bail to Pinochet daughter charged with tax evasion
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP): A CHILEAN court granted bail to the oldest daughter of former dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet yesterday, ending her two-day arrest after returning home from the United States to face tax evasion and false passport charges.
CANADA: All 72 miners trapped in mine rescued
TORONTO (Reuters): ALL 72 miners who had been trapped underground by a fire in a Western Canadian potash mine were being reunited with their families yesterday, amid relief no one was injured during the 30-hour ordeal.
UKRAINE: Yushchenko blames officials for week-long heating outage
KIEV, Ukraine (AP): UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT Viktor Yushchenko yesterday blamed local officials in an eastern Ukrainian city for mismanagement that left tens of thousands of residents shivering in unheated apartments during last week's record-breaking cold...
UNITED KINGDOM: Hamas asks for foreign aid, US says no
LONDON (Reuters):HAMAS AND President Mahmoud Abbas urged foreign donors yesterday to lift threats to cut vital aid to a new Hamas-led Palestinian government but the United States stood firm, saying it would not directly aid the militant group.
MIDEAST: Saddam will boycott next trial session
AMMAN, Jordan (AP): SADDAM HUSSEIN and his lawyers will boycott the next session of the deposed leader's trial in Baghdad to protest the alleged 'bias' of the new chief judge appointed to hear the case, his chief lawyer told The Associated Press...
BELGIUM: Soft drink firms to drop ads for children
BRUSSELS (Reuters): EUROPE'S SOFT drinks industry unveiled proposals on Wednesday to drop advertising aimed at children under 12 and remove vending machines from primary schools, to help fight growing obesity in the European Union.
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