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BRUSSELS (Thomson Financial) - The European Commission has urged Moscow to address accusations of electoral irregularities surrounding Russia’s weekend legislative polls, which were won by President Vladimir Putin’s party.
‘Everybody is aware that observers have denounced irregularities,’ said Johannes Laitenberger, spokesman for the EU’s executive arm.
‘It is in the interest of Russia to completely clarify all […]

The anti-poverty group Oxfam says global warming is altering the human food supply and threatening some of the world’s poorest people with hunger. At the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Bali, the group argued developed countries should pay to address the problem, and costs could top $50 billion a year. Trish Anderton reports […]

Pakistan’s two main opposition rivals met Monday for the first time since both returned from their years in exile, accusing President Pervez Musharraf of plotting to fix the Jan. 8 vote and vowing to muster a “people power” movement that would take to the streets to challenge any election they deem unfair.
Sitting side by side […]

DETROIT - In another blow to the Motor City’s tarnished image, Detroit pushed past St. Louis to become the nation’s most dangerous city, according to a private research group’s controversial analysis, released Sunday, of annual FBI crime statistics.
The study drew harsh criticism even before it came out. The American Society of Criminology launched a pre-emptive […]

BALANCE is being invoked as the unofficial mantra of this election campaign, but it’s not so much a tale of balance as a story of contrasts.
Yesterday was a case in point. John Howard was present, admonishing The Chaser boys in rabbit suits on his morning walk, powering through low-level campaign events. Kevin Rudd was ominously […]

Benazir Bhutto, the Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister, on Wednesday reaffirmed her determination to return to Pakistan the next day after an eight-year absence, despite threats from militants and pressure from the government to delay.
“This time tomorrow we’ll be on board the plane to Karachi,” she said at a news conference in […]

Michael Howard in the Matin mountains, northern Iraq, and Julian Borger
The Guardian
The Turkish parliament yesterday gave its government the green light for cross-border attacks into Iraq to destroy Kurdish rebel bases, defying US calls for restraint.
The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, quickly pointed out that the vote did not signify an operation was imminent. But […]

President Bush expressed optimism on Wednesday that the Israelis and Palestinians could negotiate a peace agreement as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice ended four days of talks here with a spasm of discord between the sides.
After what appeared to be a tense meeting with Ms. Rice, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, accused Israel of failing […]

The U.S. government has asked China to clarify its intentions following the successful test of an anti-satellite weapon last week, that was reported this week by the publication Aviation Week and Space Technology. The State Department has also expressed concern about the space debris that resulted from the missile hit on an old Chinese satellite, […]

WASHINGTON: The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed sweeping changes to ethics and lobbying rules, overcoming bipartisan reluctance to ban many of the favors that lobbyists do for lawmakers and to illuminate the shadowy legislative practice of earmarking money for special projects.
The Senate’s action makes the start of the 110th Congress a watershed moment in the […]

North Korea said talks between its Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan and chief U.S. nuclear negotiator Christopher Hill this week to prepare for new six- nation talks reached “a certain agreement.’’
The two days of discussions in Berlin took place in a “positive and sincere atmosphere and a certain agreement was reached there,’’ the official […]