World highlights

• A suicide bomber targeting poor labourers killed 70 people in Baghdad yesterday, a day when US President George W. Bush was talking to his military chiefs in Iraq to help him draft a new US strategy. • President George W. Bush will delay...

• A suicide bomber targeting poor labourers killed 70 people in Baghdad yesterday, a day when US President George W. Bush was talking to his military chiefs in Iraq to help him draft a new US strategy.

• President George W. Bush will delay announcing a new strategy for Iraq until the new year, aides said yesterday amid new polls showing Americans are more pessimistic about the war and want a change.

• Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas traded gunfire with Hamas policemen in Gaza yesterday as tensions soared after the killing of three young sons of one of Mr Abbas's top intelligence officials.

• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday told delegates at an international conference questioning the Holocaust that Israel's days were numbered.

• The head of the Arab League met Lebanese leaders yesterday in an effort to mediate an end to a political standoff between the government and the Hezbollah-led opposition.

• German Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday the international community must use all diplomatic options, including sanctions, to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons.

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