world news

• Russian navy works to free mini-submarine crew

  The Russian military is still working to rescue seven sailors trapped on a mini-submarine stranded… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Protests spread against Israel’s resettlement plan

  With Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and the West Bank less than two weeks away, settlers remain… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• The horror of Hiroshima – remembered 60 years on

  August 6 1945 was the day hell came to Hiroshima. With Japan refusing to give up its Second World… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Iran ups the ante in nuclear crisis

  A defiant Iran has announced it will pursue uranium enrichment activities despite a meeting of the… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Al Qaeda threat adds to London commuter jitters

  The latest al Qaeda video carrying warnings of more explosions in London will do little to reassure… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Israeli soldier lynched after Arab killings

  A soldier from a Jewish settlement has shot dead four people on a bus in a northern Israeli-Arab… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• US President dismisses al Qaeda video threat

  A video tape threatening more al Qaeda attacks has been dismissed by the US President who says it… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Ukraine’s ‘Orange Revolution’: a victim of privatisation ?

  It is causing a scandal in Ukraine. The ‘Orange Revolution’ has apparently been privatised – and by… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• UK outlines tough anti-terror measures

  The British government is considering reviewing its human rights legislation to fight terrorism… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Hiroshima survivors pass on memories of first atomic bombing

  Sixty years after the world’s first atomic bombing, on Hiroshima in western Japan, survivors are… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• African Union punishes Mauritania over coup

  The African Union has suspended the membership of the Islamic republic of Mauritania after army… 05/08/05 07:08 CET

• Fears grow for air supply of Russia mini-sub crew

  The Russian navy has launched an operation to rescue seven crew members of a deep sea diving vessel… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

• New terrorist laws for Britain

  Britain’s Prime Minister, Tony Blair has outlined new plans to protect the UK against further… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

• Violence returns to the streets of Belfast.

  At least 40 police officers have been injured trying to calm riots in the Northern Irish capital… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

• No end in sight to Portugal wild fires

  Some 21 separate wild fires are now raging out of control across Portugal’s parched forests… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

• Enola Gay prompts mixed emotions, 60 years after nuclear bombing

  Almost 60 years to the day after the nuclear age was unleashed with an attack on the Japanese city… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

• UN watchdog to discuss Iran’s nuclear defiance

  The governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the nuclear watchdog of the United… 05/08/05 01:08 CET

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