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Greece has warned that last week's promise of European Union support might not be enough to stop its debt problem from undermining the single European currency, the Euro. As eurozone Finance Ministers began a meeting on the crisis, the Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou said that potential rescue plan must be more explicit to stop the markets attacking Greece. ... Smith reports.
International confidence in not only Greece, but also the stability of the 16 member eurozone has been badly shaken since member nations pledged aid to Greece last week without revealing specifics. The eurozone Ministers say they will check Greece's progress in March, but in fact what they really want is the ability to order Greece's public finances. Just in Greece's ability to do what it's says, as been wrote by an official report that chilled Greece have falsified data to hide the extent of last year's deficit.
The American Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has been holding talks in Saudi Arabia with King Abdullah about Iran's nuclear program. Mrs.Clinton was expected to seek his help in getting international backing for new sanctions against Iran. Earlier in Qatar, she said the United States feared Iran was becoming a military dictatorship.
"We see that the government of Iran,the supreme leader, the President, the parliament is being supplanted and that Iran is moving toward a military dictatorship. So what we are trying to do is to send a message to Iran that we will not stand idly by while you pursue a nuclear program that can be used to threaten your neighbors and even beyonds."
A BBC correspondent traveling with Mrs.Clinton says gulf countries are worried about Iran's nuclear ambitions, but do not want to provoke Tehran.
NATO countries have reported a mixed progress on the third day of a major offensive in southern Afghanistan. British and Afghan troops have said to be advancing swiftly in the district of Nad Ali in Helmand province. But American forces around the Taliban stronghold of Marjah have been hampered by snapper fire. and improvised explosive devices on IEDs. An independent Afghan MP ... said the use of such explosives and weaponry was making the local population more vulnerable.
The Taliban now use a lot of IEDs. A certain leading Afghan forces and international community will also use different weapons and it could mean to win this war. This will put the Afghan nation, the nation in ..., more vulnerable ... of civilian casualties.
In an incident unrelated to the offensive in Helmand, NATO says an air strike against suspected insurgents in Kandahar province has killed five civilians. It said the patrol of NATO and Afghan troops saw people digging a path and mistakenly thought they were planting explosives.
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The United Nations Agency UNICEF says its central relief teams into Mongolia to help the authorities cope with the affects of an exceptional severe winter freeze. Pedy Clark has more.
Cold winter has to be expected in Mongolia, but this one is way out of the ordinary, on worsen in the severe freeze of 2001. Thick snow and temperatures are minus 40 have killed too many large stock and left isolated herders and villagers without food, fuel or medical care. UNICEF says it's trying to get an aid convoy through to one area where 4,000 children are in urgent need of help. The Mongolian authorities say 9 children have already died from the cold in one province alone. At least 11 other provinces have been badly hit, but figures from these are not yet available.
European Train Operators say services through Brussels were on main suspended on Tuesday after a rail crash on the outskirt of the Belgian capital in which at least 18 people were killed. Two commuter trains collide earlier Monday. A BBC correspondent in Brussels says initial inquiries are likely to focus on reports that one of the train has passed a stop signal and gone onto the track along which the other train was coming in the opposite direction.
The daughter of the mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kiev says she had more than 6 million dollars worth of jewels stolen in Paris. Christine Chernovtsy told police she was being driven into the French capital from the airport when a man called open the door and store her hand back as they were caught in traffic.
A French anti-doping agency says an arrest warrant has been issued for the American cyclist Floyd Landis in connection with a computer hacking incident at an anti-doping laboratory in 2006. The same laboratory was responsible for test result earlier that year. They said Mr.Landis being strip to victory in the Tour de France for doping offenses. Mr.Landis has consistently denied any wrong doing.
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