Hillary Clinton yesterday waded for the first time into the bitter controversy
about Barack Obama's pastor, even as she tried to cover her own
embarrassment at being caught exaggerating the risks of her trip to Bosnia
in 1996, writes Tom Baldwin in Washington.
Nicolas Sarkozy became the first world leader to suggest that he might boycott
the Beijing Olympics yesterday as Britain and France increased the pressure
on China over Tibet.
The Pentagon admitted yesterday that it had mistakenly shipped four triggers
for inter-continental nuclear missiles to Taiwan, an island with which
Communist China maintains a state of war.
It had all the trappings of a Frederick Forsyth thriller. A little before
dawn, an amphibious invasion force of about 400 African conscripts swept on
to the sandy beaches of the rebel-held tropical island of Anjouan.
