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21 Jun 09 | FRENCH President Nicolas Sarkozy's Government is to consider banning the burka and other Islamic clothing, which MPs claim are degrading to women.
21 Jun 09 | US PRESIDENT Barack Obama has warned Iran that "the world is watching" after its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei ordered protesters to stop post-election demonstrations.
20 Jun 09 | They say love conquers all. But can your love extend to a panpipe cover version of Sexual Healing? Charlie Brooker issues a challenge.
20 Jun 09 | AN INDIAN leader has called for an end to protests that left dozens dead in Peru's Amazon after Congress revoked two decrees that indigenous groups said would spur oil and gas exploitation and other development on their ancestral lands.
20 Jun 09 | THE vast sums ploughed into fighting diseases such as AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in the past 10 years have saved many lives but have also sometimes undermined health systems in poor countries, according to a survey by the World Health Organisation and others published yesterday.
20 Jun 09 | THE post-election stand-off in Iran has pitted two cousins and long-time rivals against each other in a renewed personal and political battle almost as old as the Islamic Republic itself. But the career trajectories of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the reformist leader, and Ayatollah Ali Husseini Khamenei, the country's Supreme Leader, have carried them in diametrically opposed directions.
20 Jun 09 | Unlike many of their neighbours, at least the people of Iran were able to vote, reports Middle East Correspondent Jason Koutsoukis.
20 Jun 09 | ZIMBABWE'S Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, will return almost empty-handed from his fund-raising tour of Europe and America, diplomats in Harare have said.
20 Jun 09 | DILI: A new film about the killing of five journalists by Indonesian troops in East Timor in 1975 fails to depict the true cruelty of their deaths, the East Timorese President, Jose Ramos-Horta says.
20 Jun 09 | London is in uproar at Charles's latest architecture move, writes Paola Totaro.
20 Jun 09 | LOS ANGELES: New images suggest Mars had a sizeable lake on its surface billions of years ago, providing further evidence the planet had a watery past.
20 Jun 09 | MORE a symphony of agreement than a vigorous exchange of ideas, Indonesia's first direct debate between presidential candidates was widely panned as bland, even if it marked a maturing of the country's fledgling democracy.
20 Jun 09 | RANGOON: The Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi spent her 64th birthday in prison yesterday as global campaigns demanding her freedom erupted across Twitter, Facebook and other websites and at rallies worldwide.
20 Jun 09 | IRAN'S Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, said the people had picked the candidate they wanted in last week's presidential election as he made his first public appearance after daily protests over the official results.
20 Jun 09 | NORTH and South Korea have resumed talks on the fate of their last remaining reconciliation project as the US moved to defend itself in the event of a North Korean missile strike on Hawaii.
20 Jun 09 | ITALIAN prosecutors investigating a health kickback scandal have interviewed another three women who say they were paid to attend parties at the homes of the Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, in Rome and Sardinia.
20 Jun 09 | The US Federal Reserve must assess whether the world's biggest economy needs more tuning, writes Anne Davies.
20 Jun 09 | Barack Obama would do well to borrow from Machiavelli's observation that to be loved is good, to be feared is better, writes Michael Fullilove.
20 Jun 09 | WASHINGTON: George Bush has broken his vow of silence on President Barack Obama to attack him over the recession, health reform and Guantanamo in a speech to a business convention.
20 Jun 09 | WASHINGTON: The Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has again been non-commital on whether Australia will take prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, despite the US Vice-President, Joe Biden, reiterating the Obama Administration's desire to close the controversial camp this year.