 Poland's ruling conservatives are setting about forming a new government after Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski dismissed his populist deputy. Andrzej Lepper had repeatedly criticised Mr Kaczynski's Law and Justice party over the budget. Mr Lepper, a former pig farmer famous for organising farmers' protests, urged more help for rural areas and opposed sending extra troops to Afghanistan. The ruling coalition has only been in power for four months. "I decided to ask the president to dismiss Andrzej Lepper," Mr Kaczynski said late on Thursday. He said Mr Lepper had "gone back to his old practices of sowing discord". In response, Mr Lepper accused the prime minister and his party of belittling him and not consulting him on major policy moves. "They are not made for constructing, but for destroying. They will agree only with people who are on their knees before them," he said. ...
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 Bush 'Taken Aback' By Musharraf Claim |
President Bush said Friday he was "taken aback" by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's contention that the U.S. threatened to bomb Pakistan back to the Stone Age if it did not cooperate right after the Sept. 11 attacks. Musharraf said in an interview to air Sunday on CBS' 60 Minutes that Richard Armitage, who was then deputy secretary of state, told a Pakistani official that the U.S. would attack Pakistan if it didn't back the war on terror. Musharraf wouldn't comment on his statement, saying he has a book coming out and that he's promised the publisher he wouldn't talk about it. Mr. Bush accepted that answer and told reporters to "buy the book," CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller reports. ...
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| Aboriginal groups deny Australian land grab |
Aboriginal groups have hit back at claims that a controversial court ruling granting traditional land rights to metropolitan Perth, could lead to a "land grab" across Australia."No one's going to lose their backyard," said Wesley Aird, an Aboriginal leader and member of the National Indigenous Council."It's business as usual, native title isn't as scary as people may have thought," Mr Aird told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.On Tuesday, a federal court judge ruled that the Noongar people were the traditional owners of Perth, and large parts of south-west western Australian. The decision by Justice Murray Wilcox means that the Noongar people - with a population estimated at 30,000, or half the state's indigenous population - are the traditional owners of the land and have been granted the right to use it for traditional purposes....
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| New terror that stalks Iraq's republic of fear |
The republic of fear is born again. The state of terror now gripping Iraq is as bad as it was under Saddam Hussein. Torture in the country may even be worse than it was during his rule, the United Nation's special investigator on torture said yesterday. "The situation as far as torture is concerned now in Iraq is totally out of hand," said Manfred Nowak. "The situation is so bad many people say it is worse than it had been in the times of Saddam Hussein."The report, from an even-handed senior UN official, is in sharp contrast with the hopes of George Bush and Tony Blair, when in 2003 they promised to bring democracy and respect for human rights to the people of Iraq. The brutal tortures committed in the prisons of the regime overthrown in 2003 are being emulated and surpassed in the detention centres of the present US- and British-backed Iraqi government...
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| The Big Question: Is this 3.3 million-year-old fossil of an ape-girl the missing link? |
Scientists in Ethiopia have discovered the fossilised remains of a child 3.3 million years old that represents an intermediate stage between chimpanzees and humans. Dubbed "Selam", which means "peace" in the local language, the little girl has a lower body much like a human, well adapted to walking upright, while the upper body is closer to that of a chimpanzee - which may indicate that she was able to climb trees like a chimp. She also has a face, and her chewing teeth are much closer to those of a human than to the large pointed canines of a chimpanzee. She is expected to be "a veritable mine of information about a crucial stage in human evolutionary history", as Bernard Wood, of the Department of Anthropology in George Washington University, puts it in the current issue of Nature, where the discovery was announced. ...
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| Bush threatened to bomb Pakistan, says Musharraf |
The Bush administration threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" after the September 11 attacks if the country did not cooperate with America's war on Afghanistan, it emerged yesterday.In an interview to be aired on CBS television this weekend Pakistan's president, General Pervez Musharraf, said the threat was delivered by the assistant secretary of state, Richard Armitage, in conversations with Pakistan's intelligence director."The intelligence director told me that (Mr Armitage) said, 'Be prepared to be bombed. Be prepared to go back to the stone age'," Gen Musharraf was quoted as saying. The revelation that the US used extreme pressure to secure Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror arrived at a time of renewed unease in the US about its frontline ally.Gen Musharraf told CBS he was stunned at the bluntness of the US approach in the aftermath of the attacks. "I think it was a very rude remark," he said. But he yielded to the request....
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