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Editorial

Exploit Tory woes, Labour

Lord Feldman says that he didn't call grassroots Tories "mad swivel-eyed loons" while his accusers stand by their stories that he did.

Features

Let's get Britain back on track

by Mick Whelan

As Aslef's annual assembly of delegates begins in Edinburgh tomorrow the general secretary explains the challenges his members - and workers across the country - face

The vicious cycle of eurozone decline

by Tom Gill

France is the latest to face clamour from the EU to enforce crippling 'structural reforms.' The medicine is killing the patient

World

'Possessed' Romanian nun dies in exorcism rite

Saturday 18 June 2005

A 23-YEAR-OLD Romanian nun died after she was tied to a cross in an apparent exorcism ritual and left in a cold room for three days without food, police said yesterday.

Amnesty hits out at United States over Guantanamo expansion

Saturday 18 June 2005

AMNESTY International attacked the US administration yesterday over its decision to to expand the Guantanamo Bay prison camp.

Musharraf admits ban on rape victim

Saturday 18 June 2005

PAKISTANI President Pervez Musharraf said yesterday that he had ordered a travel ban on the victim of a village council-ordered gang rape to protect his country's image abroad.

EU leaders clash in row over budget

Saturday 18 June 2005

EUROPEAN Union leaders clashed over how much each nation should pay into EU coffers yesterday, undermining their efforts to rally around the embattled EU constitution.

IAEA fights proliferation

Saturday 18 June 2005

THE International Atomic Energy Agency agreed yesterday to create a committee to crack down on nuclear proliferators, but without any of the enforcement powers sought by the United States.

Refugee family policy shift

Saturday 18 June 2005

AUSTRALIAN Prime Minister John Howard said yesterday that his government is relaxing its policy of mandatory detention of asylum-seekers, which human rights groups have long criticised as inhumane.

KKK trial can hear old testimony

Friday 17 June 2005

THE trial of ex-Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen, who is accused of killings of three civil rights workers four decades ago, can hear testimony from a 1967 trial, Judge Marcus Gordon ruled yesterday.

Israel blasts EU contacts with Hamas

Friday 17 June 2005

ISRAEL said yesterday that it had protested over increasing European Union contacts with Palestinian militant group Hamas.

Gunmen seize school in Cambodia

Friday 17 June 2005

MASKED gunmen seized dozens of children at an international school in north-western Cambodia yesterday, killing a three-year-old Canadian boy and threatening to shoot the others one by one before police rescued the remaining hostages.

Tsunami aid row splits Sri Lanka's ruling coalition

Friday 17 June 2005

SRI LANKA'S ruling coalition broke up yesterday over President Chandrika Kumaratunga's plan to share tsunami relief with separatist Tamil rebels.