The Guardian
Triumphant White House now looks to Europe
Julian Borger in Washington
Tuesday February 1, 2005
The Guardian
The high turnout in the Iraqi election has strengthened President Bush's hand at home and abroad, administration officials and the president's supporters said yesterday.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1402989,00.html
Video claims to show RAF plane being shot down
Richard Norton-Taylor and Rory McCarthy in Baghdad
Tuesday February 1, 2005
The Guardian
British and American investigators last night were continuing to search the wreckage of an RAF Hercules aircraft which crashed in mysterious circumstances in the single biggest fatality of British troops since the invasion of Iraq.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1403022,00.html
Flood risk could make 300,000 homes uninsurable
No new river defences, no mortgages, says report
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Tuesday February 1, 2005
The Guardian
The insurance industry has said the government's plans to build 85,000 homes in the Thames Gateway must be modified - to include safeguards such as only occupying homes above first-floor level - due to the high risk of flooding.
http://money.guardian.co.uk/insurance_/story/0,1456,1402956,00.html
Sudan's Darfur crimes not genocide, says UN report
Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Tuesday February 1, 2005
The Guardian
The Sudanese government should be referred to the international criminal court for alleged crimes against humanity in Darfur, a United Nations-commissioned report has concluded.
But the study, which is expected to be debated by the UN security council today, falls short of describing the situation in the western region of Sudan as genocide.
The report by a five-member commission, headed by the Italian judge Antonio Cassese, is due to be published today.
The study was set up by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, in October to investigate whether genocide was being conducted in Darfur, where tens of thousands have been killed and 1.8 million displaced.
A UN source said yesterday that the commission's conclusion was that the testimony it took did not amount to proof of genocide. "But it does say crimes against humanity of an ethnic nature have been committed and recommends going to the ICC."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sudan/story/0,14658,1402997,00.html
Exxon makes $25bn profit
David Teather in New York
Tuesday February 1, 2005
The Guardian
Exxon Mobil, the world's largest publicly quoted oil and gas firm, yesterday said it made $25bn (£13bn) in 2004, the highest profits in the company's history.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/oil/story/0,11319,1402979,00.html
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