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Editorial

Stop lecturing the Greeks

Prime Minister David Cameron has never been short of bare-faced cheek.

Features

Meeting the Tory challenge

by Martin Mansfield

Wales is ready to fight the austerity imposed by Westminster

Attack of the drones

by Chizom Ekeh

The immoral and irresponsible use of unmanned aerial assault vehicles

World

Macedonia votes on local self-rule for Albanians

Monday 08 November 2004

MACEDONIANS voted yesterday in a referendum on whether to grant local autonomy to ethnic Albanians or risk undermining a peace pact with the country's restive minority.

Mobs run riot in Ivory Coast cities

Monday 08 November 2004

HUGE machete-waving mobs looted and burned in Ivory Coast yesterday, venting their fury on French targets after a day of ground and air clashes between forces of France and its former colony.

Russians march to defend Revolution Day holiday

Monday 08 November 2004

RUSSIANS marked the anniversary of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution yesterday with marches, communist rallies and protests against a parliamentary proposal to scrap what was once the most sacred Soviet holiday.

Saudis plan illegal demos

Monday 08 November 2004

THOUSANDS of Saudis are planning illegal protests later this month in Riyadh and Jiddah to call for political and social change within their ultra-conservative Gulf kingdom, exiled Saudi dissident Saad al-Fagih said at the weekend.

Sudan rules out agreeing to Darfur no-fly zone

Monday 08 November 2004

SUDAN'S government said at the weekend that it would not budge from its rejection of a no-fly zone for its war-torn Darfur region, threatening hopes of a partial peace accord after months of African Union-sponsored talks.

Arafat 'can have Gaza burial'

Saturday 06 November 2004

ISRAEL will permit Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to be buried in the Gaza Strip, but it will keep him out of Jerusalem, Israeli Justice Minister Yosef Lapid said yesterday.

Arafat 'in coma but not brain-dead'

Saturday 06 November 2004

PALESTINIAN President Yasser Arafat is in a coma but is not brain-dead, his spokeswoman said yesterday, acknowledging that the ailing Palestinian leader was "between life and death."

EU urges new peace talks

Saturday 06 November 2004

EUROPEAN Union leaders emerged from a two-day summit yesterday to urge the revival of moribund peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

Tank shell kills Palestinian boys in Gaza

Saturday 06 November 2004

TWO Palestinian boys, aged seven and eight, were killed in an explosion yesterday.

Al-Jazeera announces freeing of hostages

Saturday 06 November 2004

ARABIC television station Al-Jazeera said yesterday that a Filipino and a Nepali who had been kidnapped earlier in the week have been released by their captors.