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Ministers predict hot world economic growth in 2006

Finance ministers from Asia and Europe predicted another bumper year of global economic growth on Sunday despite persistently high oil prices.

Reuters 09.Apr.06
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US bomb threat raises Iran tension

The head of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog is to travel to Iran as tension increases with claims that Washington has drawn up plans to bomb Tehran's underground nuclear plants.
A report in The New Yorker magazine by one of the best known investigative reporters in the US that President George Bush is planning a huge bombing campaign is certain to raise the temperature of the nuclear stand-off between the two countries.

Age 10.Apr.06
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Israel declares PA 'hostile entity'

The Israeli government says it has severed all ties with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority, declaring it a "hostile entity".
However, the government will maintain contacts with Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, although it has ruled out full peace talks with the leader of the Fatah faction.
The decision was announced following a security cabinet meeting on Sunday.
In a statement issued after the meeting Ehud Olmert, the acting Israeli prime minister, also said that his government would shun foreign diplomats who meet members of the Hamas administration.

Aljazeera.net 09.Apr.06
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Army of the Poor Marches

With Washington nervously watching the leftward swing of its long-neglected backyard, Ollanta Humala, the front-runner in tomorrow's general election, is proposing to transform his impoverished country with nationalism and populism.
It is a recipe that would put him on a collision course with the US and propel Peru into the camp of leaders such as Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan President who enjoys vast oil wealth and close ties to Fidel Castro of Cuba and Evo Morales, the indigenous coca farmer who last year became President of neighbouring Bolivia.

Hider/TimesUK/commondreams 08.Apr.06