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Associated British Ports considers bids from two suitorsA bidding battle is on the cards as two big investment consortiums made competing and equal bids… 15/06/06 06:06 CET
European car sales show major gains in MayEuropean car sales jumped by 9.6% last month, helped by new models from Fiat, Toyota and… 15/06/06 06:06 CET
europa
Lithuania presses on with early euro entry bidNew Lithuanian Prime Minister Zigmantas Balcytis is determined to broach the question in Brussels… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
world news
Belgian man charged with kidnapping two girlsThere is still no sign of the two girls Stacy Lemmens, 7, and Nathalie Mahy, 10, but a man has been… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
Date set for Spain-ETA peace talksThe Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero says he will make contacts for peace talks… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
UN hears evidence of widespread atrocities in DarfurWritten evidence of the massacre and rape of thousands of civilians in the western region of Sudan… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
Guantanamo is bad for our image, says US PresidentGeorge W. Bush has acknowledged that the United States’ military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
Crucial warlord stronghold falls to Somali Islamic militantsIslamic militants in Somalia have captured the town of Jowahr from a coalition of warlords, a week… 15/06/06 07:06 CET
Peacekeeping plan in SomaliaWith their country gripped by internal conflict and political instability hundreds of Somalis have… 15/06/06 06:06 CET
Taliban uses Iraq-style attacks against workers in AfghanistanFears that Afghanistan is sliding towards a violent insurgency similar to the one in Iraq seem… 15/06/06 06:06 CET
Taliban claims deadly Kandahar bombingThe upsurge of violence continues in Afghanistan. Today a bomb tore though a minibus carrying… 15/06/06 01:06 CET
- Scores killed in bus attack
At least 61 people have been killed in a suspected mine attack on a civilian bus in Sri Lanka. Many… 15/06/06 01:06 CET
EU Summit: Is there life in the Constitution after all?All 25 European leaders meeting at a two day summit in Brussels will try to work out whether it’s… 15/06/06 01:06 CET
Iran’s leaders come to Shanghai looking for allies.Looking to break out of his international isolation, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is… 15/06/06 01:06 CET
