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Debate touches on Iraq, Iran, but centres on tax and spending cuts
GOP: it’s the economy

DEARBORN, MI — Republican U.S. presidential hopefuls Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani clashed over tax and spending cuts yesterday, each saying he was more committed than the other as they competed for conservative support in a debate in the U.S.’s auto-manufacturing heartland.
Eight of the Republican (GOP) candidates said they support... Read More

UK under worse terror threat

LONDON — Terrorists are plotting more numerous and deadlier attacks against Britain each year, London’s police chief warned lawmakers yesterday.
Ian Blair told a committee examining changes to detention laws that his officers face a sharply rising threat from terrorism.
‘‘The number of the conspiracies, the number of conspirators within those conspiracies... Read More

New spying rules?

UNITED STATES

WASHINGTON — The rights of U.S. citizens swept up in U.S. President George W. Bush’s warrantless domestic spying program would be given new safeguards under a bill introduced yesterday by top Democratic lawmakers.
But civil liberties advocates complained the measure did not go far enough, while a top Republican... Read More

French, German scientists for nanotechnology work
Europeans share physics Nobel

STOCKHOLM — France’s Albert Fert and Germany’s Peter Grünberg won the 2007 Nobel Prize for physics yesterday for a breakthrough in nanotechnology that lets huge amounts of data be squeezed into ever-smaller spaces. Gadgets from powerful laptops to iPods owe their existence to the discovery.
The 10-million Swedish crown ($1.54 million)... Read More

Sri Lankan violence spiking, reports show

COLOMBO — An air strike by Sri Lankan warplanes killed 69 Tamil Tiger rebels at a training camp last month, the military said yesterday, the biggest single-day rebel casualties in months of renewed fighting.
An air force spokesman said the raid was carried out on Sept. 25 in the northern Kilinochchi... Read More

ETA up to old tricks — bomb car in Bilbao

BILBAO – A car bomb exploded yesterday in the northern city of Bilbao in Spain’s Basque country, burning the bodyguard of a Socialist councillor, police and government officials said. Spain has been waiting for the other shoe to drop since police swooped in and arrested virtually the entire leadership of... Read More

Pakistani attack near Afghan border bloodiest since it joined US-led campaign in 2001
Blast kills more than 50

MIRAN SHAH — Pakistani aircraft bombed a village bazaar near the Afghan border yesterday, killing more than 50 suspected militants and civilians and wounding scores of others during the most deadly fighting since Pakistan threw its support behind the US-led war on terror six years ago.
Four days of clashes with... Read More

Militants follow through on Ramadan violence

BAGHDAD — Violence jumped across Iraq yesterday as Ramadan neared an end, suggesting rgw group that calls itself al Qaeda in Iraq was trying to make good on its promised offensive during the holy month of fasting. At least 57 Iraqis were found dead or killed in bombings and shootings.
Guards... Read More