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‘Enrika: Sweet as sugar and bright as the sun’ A 1,000-strong congregation burst into spontaneous applause last night after hearing heartfelt tributes to a mother and daughter brutally murdered at the weekend.
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Counties facing funding cuts unless managers’ charter agreedFour counties have been warned they risk having funding withheld if they don't devise a managers' charter.
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Iran: Israel will vanish some day
Iran’s president today said that Israel’s government was a regime based on evil, but also said he was ready to negotiate with the US and other countries over his country’s nuclear programme.Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has previously said Israel should be wiped off the map, told a cheering crowd of students that the Middle Eastern country is “a regime based on evil that cannot continue and one day will vanish.”
Students in the crowd held up posters saying “Iran in our hearts” and “nuclear for peace”.
Ahmadinejad, known for his fiery rhetoric, was visiting Indonesia amid a deepening stand-off over his country’s nuclear programme and suspicions it is developing nuclear weapons.
Key UN Security Council members agreed to present Tehran with a choice of incentives or sanctions in deciding whether to suspend uranium enrichment.
The Iranian leader told Indonesia’s Metro TV station that he was unconcerned about the possibility of UN sanctions, saying the West had more to lose than Iran did if the country was isolated.
“We do not need to be dependent on others,” he said, adding that international isolation would serve only to ”motivate” the country’s nuclear scientists.