Deal clears way for trying terrorism suspects: Bush

Friday, September 22, 2006, 8:39 [IST]

ORLANDO, Sep 21 (Reuters) US President George W Bush said an agreement reached today with Senate Republicans ''clears the way to capture terrorists, to detain terrorists, to question terrorists and then to try them.'' Bush, speaking at a political fundraiser in Orlando, urged Congress to approve legislation on foreign terrorism suspects before it wraps up its legislative business next week.

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France's Sarkozy under fire over violent crime

Friday, September 22, 2006,8:39 [IST]

PARIS, Sep 21 (Reuters) Judges and political rivals today branded French presidential frontrunner Nicolas Sarkozy a failure as interior minister after a brutal attack on a police officer triggered a fresh outcry over rising crime. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin summoned Sarkozy and other senior ministers after a score of top government officials warned of a rise in violence in tinderbox suburbs. A police officer suffered serious head and eye injuries late on Tuesday in.....

Polish coalition on brink, early polls loom

Friday, September 22, 2006,8:39 [IST]

WARSAW, Sep 21 (Reuters) - Poland's conservative-led ruling coalition moved close to a collapse today because of an escalating war of words over its 2007 budget and the plan to send more troops to Afghanistan. The senior Law and Justice conservatives of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said they could no longer treat junior leftist Self-Defence as reliable coalition partners, hinting that early polls could be on the cards. ''We cannot treat Self-Defence led.....

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Dutch ministers quit after immigrant deaths report

Friday, September 22, 2006,8:39 [IST]

AMSTERDAM, Sep 21 (Reuters) Two Dutch ministers resigned today after a report into a fire at a detention centre which killed 11 illegal immigrants last October condemned serious safety lapses. The long-awaited report into the blaze at the centre at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport criticised failings by the Justice Ministry and other departments and was a major embarrassment for the government just two months ahead of a national election. ''There would have been few or.....

CIA officers refused to work at secret prisons -FT

Friday, September 22, 2006,8:39 [IST]

WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (Reuters) The Bush administration emptied its CIA prisons and transferred top terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay partly because CIA officers refused to carry out interrogations, the Financial Times reported today. CIA officers were concerned they could be prosecuted for using illegal interrogation techniques and refused to continue their work until their legal situation could be clarified, the newspaper said in an article quoting unnamed former spy agency officials. Critics have.....

Leading Bush critic at home calls Chavez a "thug"

Friday, September 22, 2006,8:40 [IST]

WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (Reuters) One of President George W Bush's fiercest political opponents at home took his side today, calling Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez a ''thug'' for his remark that Bush is like the devil. ''Hugo Chavez fancies himself a modern day Simon Bolivar but all he is is an everyday thug,'' House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said at a news conference, referring to Chavez' comments in a UN General Assembly speech yesterday. ''Hugo.....