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  • The recriminations have started among the Allies

    It's been a while since we heard the phrase "shock and awe". In retrospect, some of the harsher critics would say it should have been "cock and bull". Deaglán de Bréadún reports from Doha p
War on Iraq

  • One Republican Guard's arduous journey to a safe surrender

    For a member of the Republican Guard, he did not look like one of the fearsome soldiers picked by Saddam Hussein to act as the last line of defence against the allied advance towards Baghdad. p

  • Iraq is a dying regime, says Gen Franks

    The senior US military commander has said he does not know how long the war with Iraq will last but that it will end in victory for the allies. He claimed the endorsement by the Baghdad government of a suicide-bombing was typical of "a dying regime". Deaglán de Bréadún , reports from Doha p

  • Rumsfeld put in firing line as Iraqis refuse to play ball

    The fact that Bob Schieffer would recall the comment by Mussolini's aide, Count Ciano, that "victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan" in a CBS interview with US Gen Richard Myers yesterday indicates just how big a mood swing there has been in the United States after 11 days of war in Iraq. p

  • Terror and desperation in a city under siege

    Although Saddam Hussein's troops have pulled their northern front lines back from Zorga Zrar, their ability to hurt, injure and maim persists. p

  • Change of tactic vital as Iraqis fail to rise against Saddam

    The advances made by US and British troops in Iraq after a week and a half of fighting have brought them to within 50 miles of Baghdad. But contrary to expectations, Iraqi citizens have failed to rise up against Saddam and his ruling Baath party, writes Dr Tom Clonan p

  • Search hots up for billions Saddam may have hidden

    As the US scrambles to find funds to rebuild Iraq after the war, there is a tantalising pot of money which government investigators believe may be squirreled away in bank accounts and investments around the world. p

  • 'All they can do is turn themselves into bombs'

    Iraqi officials say the suicide car-bombing that killed at least four US Marines in the Shia holy city of Najaf at the weekend is but a taste of things to come. p

  • Group sends suicide mission fighters

    The radical Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad, said yesterday it had sent a first wave of suicide-bombers to Baghdad to help Iraqis fight US and British troops. p

  • Restrictions tightened on journalists in a new twist to the propaganda war

    The words "Ministry of Information" always had an Orwellian ring to them, nowhere more so than in Baghdad, writes Lara Marlowe p

  • Cook qualifies demand to bring troops home

    Mr Robin Cook staged a strategic retreat yesterday after calling for the return home of British troops before more of them died in "bloody and unnecessary" war in Iraq, Frank Millar reports from London p

  • UK may face war crime charges

    Iraq said this weekend it would institute war crimes proceedings against Britain - and legal experts say London could be in trouble, writes Chris Stephen from  The Hague p

  • British claim chemical warfare material find

    A stash of Iraqi training equipment for nuclear, biological and chemical warfare was discovered by British troops yesterday, including a Geiger counter, nerve gas simulators, gas masks and protective suits, British army sources said. p

  • Pope makes fervent plea for peace

    Pope John Paul II made yet another fervent appeal for peace in Iraq yesterday, arguing that the war undermined "mankind's hope for a better future", writes Paddy Agnew in Rome p

  • Jakarta anti-war demonstration estimated at quarter-million

    Tens of thousands of Indonesians, many carrying children, jammed the streets of central Jakarta yesterday, shouting anti-American slogans as they marched toward the US embassy to protest at the war in Iraq. p

  • Protests in Latin-American capitals

    Anti-war and anti-US sentiments flowed in Latin America on Saturday as protesters took to the streets. Meanwhile journalists from the region took aim at their US colleagues for perceived biased reporting. p

  • Low-key ceremony as bodies of servicemen return to UK

    The bodies of the first British servicemen to die in the Iraq war arrived back in the UK at the weekend. p

  • San Francisco witnesses rally in support of war

    Carrying American flags and stepping to the sounds of country music, a small but determined group of people rallied in San Francisco on Saturday to show support for US troops in Iraq in a city that has been home to perhaps the most active US anti-war movement. p
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  • Muscovites not so hot on six-storey primus stove

    LETTER FROM MOSCOW: Strolling beneath the lime trees which line the walkway around Patriarch's Ponds, residents of this tranquil corner of Moscow are quietly celebrating a rare Russian victory for public opinion over political power, writes Dan McLaughlin p

  • Moscow silence over wife of Milosevic

    Russian officials refused yesterday to confirm that the wife of ousted Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic was in Moscow, after Serb police demanded she return immediately to Belgrade to face questions over the murder of a top politician, writes Daniel McLaughlin , in Moscow p

  • China jailed most journalists in 2002, study finds

    CHINA: Nineteen journalists were killed worldwide in 2002 and 136 jailed by the end of the year, with China remaining the leading jailer of journalists for the fourth successive year, according to the annual report of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), writes Conor O'Clery p

  • Hong Kong confirms 60 new SARS cases

    HONG KONG: Health officials in Hong Kong yesterday said that 60 more people had fallen ill with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), more than half of them in one apartment complex, pushing the number of infections worldwide past 1,600. p

  • Opposition protests as Harare suburbs vote

    ZIMBABWE: Residents of two populous suburbs of the Zimbabwe capital, Harare, voted for a second time yesterday in key by-elections, amid opposition claims that the polls were not free and fair. p

  • Suicide bomber injures over 30 in Israel

    ISRAEL: A Palestinian suicide-bomber blew himself up in a crowded pedestrian mall in the northern coastal town of Netanya yesterday, wounding more than 30 people and killing himself, in what the militant Islamic Jihad group, which claimed the attack, called a "gift" to the Iraqi people. p
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