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Iran nuclear programme expanded
TEHRAN - Iran has started enriching uranium in a second network of centrifuges, Iran's student news agency ISNA has reported, expanding a programme which the West fears is intended to make nuclear bombs.
ISNA quoted an "informed source" as saying "the injection of gas was carried out" in the past week. "We have obtained the product of the second cascade," the source said. - (Reuters)
Iraqi PM speaks of 'timelines'
BAGHDAD - Iraq's prime minister has said in a joint statement with the US
ambassador that his government has "timelines" for the resolution of the country's problems after the two men met following days of diplomatic tension.
"The Iraqi government has made clear the issues that must be resolved, with timelines, to take positive steps forward on behalf of the Iraqi people," a spokesman said, reading from a joint statement by prime minister Nuri al-Maliki and envoy Zalmay Khalilzad after their meeting. - (Reuters)
Judge orders arrest of Pinochet
SANTIAGO - A judge has ordered the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet for crimes related to a secret detention centre used after his 1973 coup, according to court sources.
Judge Alejandro Solis ordered the arrest of Gen Pinochet for 36 cases of kidnap, one of homicide and for 23 cases of torture at the Villa Grimaldi, a political detention centre run by his secret police where thousands of people were tortured between 1974 and 1977. - (Reuters)
Buses set alight on Paris anniversary
PARIS - Two public buses were set on fire in a Paris suburb yesterday, the anniversary of the two deaths that ignited weeks of riots in largely immigrant housing projects across France a year ago.
Both buses were burned in Blanc Mesnil, a northern Paris suburb not far from Clichy-sous-Bois where last year's violence began, police said. - (AP)
Airport named for Oliver Tambo
JOHANNESBURG - Liberation songs rang out at Johannesburg airport on yesterday when Africa's busiest international gateway was renamed after South African anti-apartheid hero Oliver Tambo.
Oliver Reginald Tambo was president of the African National Congress at the height of the anti-apartheid struggle. He died in April 1993. - (Reuters)
Costa del Sol building protest
MADRID - An entire town on Spain's cement-clogged Costa del Sol went on strike for a day to protest at the planned construction of two golf courses, 800 luxury homes and two hotels.
The 1,853 residents of Cuevas del Becerro, outside Malaga, closed shops, bars, the town's only petrol station and even the elementary school this week, as part of a backlash against rampant building. - (Guardian)