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- Model's former agent's evidence labelled 'a complete pack of lies' NAOMI CAMPBELL’S former agent’s testimony to the Charles Taylor war crimes tribunal was branded “a complete pack of lies” as she admitted that parts of her evidence linking Taylor to a mysterious gift of diamonds were either mistaken or based on her own assumptions.
- Pentagon to scale down costs but overall defence spend grows The Pentagon, trying to make savings in the face of a yawning US deficit, has unveiled a series of cost-cutting measures that will shed thousands of jobs and shut down an entire military command.
- Zardari returns home to flooded Pakistan and chorus of criticism
President Asif Ali Zardari returned home yesterday from foreign visits to a chorus of criticism over his government’s response to the country’s worst flooding in 80 years.
- Irish public donates €1m for aid DONATIONS FROM the Irish public to aid agencies involved in relief work in Pakistan have surpassed €1 million.
- WHO declares swine flu pandemic over The H1N1 pandemic is over and the global outbreak turned out to be much less severe than was feared just over a year ago, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said yesterday.
- Videos indicate Israel played a role in killing of Hariri, Hizbullah claims HIZBULLAH SECRETARY general Hassan Nasrallah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese premier Rafik Hariri and has backed up his charges with circumstantial evidence.
- Execution of flotilla raid work of IDF, says Barak ISRAEL’S DEFENCE minister, Ehud Barak, yesterday said he took “overall” responsibility for the deadly raid on the Gaza aid flotilla which resulted in the deaths of nine Turkish activists.
- Up to 100,000 protest over wage demands
A DAY-LONG strike yesterday called by unions representing 1.3 million civil servants was described as a “warning shot” to the government by Zwelinzima Vavi, general secretary of South Africa’s largest union, Cosatu.
- Secularists protest at site of air disaster memorial Thousands of people protested in Warsaw on Monday night urging the removal of a cross erected to honour victims of the air crash in Russia that killed president Lech Kaczynski and dozens of national leaders in April.
- Spanish mayor plans toll on visitors and traffic to Gibraltar THE PEOPLE of Gibraltar may soon find themselves having to pay to leave and enter their peninsula as the Spanish mayor of neighbouring La Linea, in Spain, plans a toll charge on traffic to The Rock.
- Far from Bangkok, rebel Red Shirts prepare for a comeback Despite claims of restored order, Thailand remains bitterly divided between rich and poor, writes DAVID McNEILL in Lamphun Thailand
- Former US senator Stevens among five killed in Alaska light airplane crash Former US senator Ted Stevens, who served Alaska for four decades in the senate, died in the crash of a small aircraft in Alaska on Monday night, according to a family friend.
- Rescue bid hit by lake threat after landslide RESCUERS ARE continuing their frantic efforts to stabilise an unstable lake created by the landslide in Zhouqu at the weekend, which killed hundreds in China’s deadliest landslide in decades.
- France ends height rule for joining police force France has ended restrictions barring people under 1.6 metres (5ft 3in) from joining the police force.
- Initial results give Kagame 93% of votes
RWANDAN PRESIDENT Paul Kagame was set for a second seven-year term in office yesterday, as preliminary results showed him running away with a 93 per cent share of the vote.
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