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Iraqi exiles plan to elect government

Kuwait lashed out at Western oil consuming nations yesterday for high fuel costs and staunchly defended Opec's efforts to calm soaraway crude prices.

"Have you noticed how often Israel kills a Hamas activist and the victim is described by Israelis as 'a senior Hamas official' or a 'key operative'?"

Khalifa visits historic British Cabinet war rooms

Less than 24 hours after Hans Blix, chief UN inspector, reported to the UN Security Council on the progress his team had made concerning Iraq's disarmament, millions of demonstrators took to the streets in major world capitals.

Britain said yesterday Israel had rebuffed Prime Minister Tony Blair's personal plea to let Palestinians attend Middle East peace talks in London next week but vowed that dialogue would go ahead "in one form or another".

Lebanon said yesterday it had smashed a plot to attack the U.S. embassy and Britain banned flights to Kenya as fresh terror alerts rang out across the world after the bloody suicide bombings in Saudi Arabia.

A global slump in demand for jet fuel is forcing European refineries to consider switching output to diesel and heating oil, traders said yesterday. They warned that a sustained severe downturn in aviation oil demand could force refinery cutbacks that would restrict supplies of all fuels.

The euro lurks far down the agenda of most British voters, as the last general election demonstrated. Yet it will probably decide the outcome of a long-winded contest for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

World oil prices rebounded tentatively yesterday in a correction to Monday's biggest single day's drop since the 1991 Gulf War.

UK trade gap widens despite weaker pound

Manuel Pellegrini’s team to face injured Foxes in Tuesday’s clash