A round-up of today's other world news in brief:
BNP party membership list published
LONDON - The entire membership list of the far- right British National Party has been leaked by disgruntled former employees and published online, the Guardian website reported yesterday.
The party said the names, postal and e-mail addresses of more than 10,000 supporters, including Irish supporters, had been posted in breach of a court injunction obtained in April, the website said. A complaint had been made to police and the BNP said it was seeking legal advice. - (Reuters)
Israel reseals Gaza border
GAZA - Israel has resealed border crossings with the Gaza Strip despite warnings from world aid groups of looming shortages of food and fuel supplies in the coastal territory. It cited as its reason continued rocket fire at its towns.
Israel had allowed 33 truckloads of supplies into Gaza for the first time in two weeks on Monday, and Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert told Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas he would not permit a humanitarian crisis to develop there.
"The crossings are shut because of ongoing rocket fire", said defence spokesman Peter Lerner, referring to several barrages of rockets fired from Gaza into Israeli towns, causing no injury. - (Reuters)
Beaten reporter 'received threats'
MOSCOW - A Russian reporter who is in a coma after a savage beating told the authorities a week ago he had received threats to his life because of his investigative reporting, a friend told Reuters yesterday.
Press freedom campaigners say Mikhail Beketov, editor of a local newspaper just outside Moscow, is the latest in a series of reporters to suffer for daring to challenge officialdom.
Mr Beketov is in Moscow's main intensive care unit with pieces of his skull embedded in his brain. Doctors have amputated his leg and a breathing machine is keeping him alive.
Doctors believe Mr Beketov, whose newspaper published exposés on corruption and campaigned on environmental issues, was beaten with metal poles and that he may have lain in his garden for at least a day.
- (Reuters)
10 Sudan papers close in protest
KHARTOUM - Ten Sudanese newspapers have suspended publication as part of a growing protest against state censorship, journalists said.
Reporters said it was the biggest voluntary shutdown of the media since the days of British rule in the 1950s.
The protest came a day after 63 journalists and newspaper staff were held for more than three hours by police after staging a rally outside Sudan's parliament. - (Reuters)
Most Poles against adoption of euro
WARSAW - A majority of Poles oppose plans to introduce the euro in 2012, according to a poll published yesterday that underlines the political risks dogging the project.
Prime minister Donald Tusk's centre-right government has said it may call a referendum on joining the euro in 2012 if the eurosceptic main opposition party refuses to help amend the constitution, a crucial legal step before euro adoption. - (Reuters)