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Czech senators opposed to the EU’s Lisbon Treaty have filed a new complaint against it with the country’s constitutional court.
The complaint could create a new delay to treaty ratification, even if Irish voters back the treaty in a referendum on Friday.
Czech President Vaclav Klaus, a Eurosceptic, says he will not sign the treaty until the [...]

Guinea’s government has promised an investigation into why members of the military opened fire on an opposition protest killing, by some accounts, more than 150 people.
Moussa Dadis Camara, Guinea’s military leader, apologised for the violence and announced two days of national mourning to begin on Wednesday, but also banned any further “subversive” gatherings.
“Any mass gatherings [...]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – A series of tsunamis smashed into the Pacific island nations of American and Western Samoa killing possibly more than 100 people, some washed out to sea, destroying villages and injuring hundreds, officials said on Wednesday.
President Barack Obama declared a major disaster in American Samoa, a U.S. territory, and ordered federal aid to [...]

Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said Americans should set aside any doubts about the commitment of other Nato members to the war in Afghanistan.
In his first speech in the US as secretary-general, Mr Rasmussen said the campaign in Afghanistan was one of necessity, not choice.
The speech comes after the top US and Nato commander [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Xerox Corp plans to buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc for $5.5 billion to move into the outsourcing business, but shares of the printing company plunged on concerns that it was gambling on a major shift in strategy.
The cash-and-stock deal, Xerox’s biggest ever and the first major move by new CEO Ursula [...]

Manuel Zelaya, the ousted president of Honduras, has addressed the UN General Assembly by telephone, appealing to the world body to restore the rule of law in his country.
“I call on the United Nations to restore the rule of law and the freedom that Honduras deserves,” he said on Monday from the Brazilian embassy in [...]

Iran has test-fired two long-range missiles which defence analysts say are capable of hitting Israel or US bases in the Gulf region.
The state-sponsored Press TV news channel said that the Shahab 3 and Sejil missiles were fired on Monday, the second day of military exercises by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.
Britain, France and the European Union all [...]

At least 58 people are reported to have been killed after security forces opened fire on opposition protesters in Guinea, a human rights group has said.
The unrest on Monday occurred near a stadium in Conakry, the capital, where demonstrators had massed to protest against the expected decision of Moussa Dadis Camara, the country’s military [...]

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country will sign a deal to establish diplomatic relations with Armenia on 10 October.
Mr Erdogan said the deal would still need parliamentary approval in Turkey and Armenia after being signed by their foreign ministers.
The two countries remain deeply divided over the fate Armenians suffered under Turkish [...]

Roman Polanski, the award-winning film director, has been arrested in Switzerland on a US arrest warrant, dating from 1978, for unlawful sex with a 13-year-old girl.
The Swiss justice ministry on Sunday confirmed the arrest of the film-maker, whose life has on occasion resembled the often violent world of his work.
A Swiss justice ministry spokesman said: [...]