World Highlights

¤ The US military in Iraq said yesterday media reports that America and Britain planned to pull all troops out of Iraq by spring next year were "completely false", reiterating that there was no timetable for withdrawal. ¤ Interim Israeli Prime Minister...

¤ The US military in Iraq said yesterday media reports that America and Britain planned to pull all troops out of Iraq by spring next year were "completely false", reiterating that there was no timetable for withdrawal.

¤ Interim Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert plans a unilateral withdrawal of some settlements in the occupied West Bank if he wins a March 28 general election, Israeli officials said yesterday.

¤ Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke to President George W. Bush and Israel's interim prime minister yesterday about the Middle East peace process as leaders of the militant group Hamas continued their Moscow visit.

¤ The US government will begin this week to detail how much it knew before the September 11 attacks at a trial to decide if Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in the US in connection with the hijackings, will receive the death penalty.

¤ Leading lawmakers yesterday called the secretive US government foreign investment review process that approved an Arab company's deal to assume terminal operations at six US ports flawed and in need of overhaul.

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