PAKISTAN: Gov't rebuts terrorist claims by Afghanistan
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP): PAKISTAN'S MILITARY government challenged neigh-bouring Afghanistan yesterday to identify terrorist hideouts that Afghanistan claims exist in Pakistan, and used an audience with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice...
UNITED STATES: Tens of thousands flee as sectarian violence rages
NEW YORK (AP): SOME 150,000 Iraqis have been displaced in a surge of sectarian violence sparked by the bombing of a Shi'ite shrine four months ago, the United Nations said yesterday.
SPAIN: Anti-corruption raids continue
MADRID, Spain (AP): POLICE ARRESTED 30 people, including 13 former politicians, yesterday in the second phase of a crackdown on corruption and real estate fraud centreing around the southern city of Marbella.
UNITED STATES: Second-hand smoke can kill, says report
WASHINGTON (Reuters): SECOND-HAND smoke clearly kills people and the only way to control it is to ban all smoking in workplaces, the United States Surgeon-General said yesterday in a report that puts the Bush administration on the side of smoking...
KUWAIT: Women to fight for Parliament seats
Kuwait KUWAIT (Reuters): WOMEN candidates are determined to make headway in Kuwait's parliamentary elections on Thursday, despite an uphill battle against experienced male opponents and a tradition uneasy with equal roles for women.
DENMARK: Family convicted for honour killing
COPENHAGEN (Reuters): A DANISH court yesterday convicted a man of Pakistani origin for murdering his teenage sister and attempting to murder her new husband in what the prosecution said was an honour killing.
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