TRIPOLI – NATO admitted yesterday that its weapons destroyed a house in Tripoli in which Libyan officials said nine civilians were killed, an incident likely to sow new doubts inside the alliance about its mission in Libya.
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ATHENS/LUXEMBOURG – Prime Minister George Papandreou asked Greeks yesterday to support austerity steps and avoid a “catastrophic” default, as European finance ministers discussed extending tens of billions of euros of aid to Athens.
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AMMAN – Syrian forces swept through a northwestern border region yesterday to stem an exodus of refugees to Turkey that is raising international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and a rights activist said.
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KHARTOUM – Satellite images showed the north Sudanese military massing in the Southern Kordofan border state, a monitor said, and rebels in Darfur accused Khartoum of attacking them with military vehicles and warplanes yesterday.
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WASHINGTON – Republican U.S. Senator John McCain, his party’s 2008 presidential nominee, ripped into the current crop of Republican White House contenders, accusing them of breaking party tradition by preaching “isolationism.”
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MOSCOW – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed talk of a deepening rift with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin in remarks published on Monday, strongly hinting they would not run against each other for president next year.
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PONTIDA, Italy – Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s coalition allies said on Sunday they would stay in his struggling centre-right government for just now despite two crushing electoral losses in recent weeks.
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LONDON – British unions will be making a “colossal mistake” if they push ahead with threats to stage the biggest strikes in nearly a century over public cuts and pension reforms, a senior minister said yesterday.
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