In Brief

* NUKE ROW – The US government demanded that the international community act to prevent Iran from making nuclear weapons, with a senior official saying Tehran had already “crossed the international red line”.

* WAR CRIMES – Former Croatian Serb leader Milan Babic, 50, who pleaded guilty to crimes against humanity perpetrated during the 1991-95 war in Croatia, committed suicide in the detention centre of the UN war crimes court in the hague. * HAMAS VOW – The supremo of the Palestinian radical group Hamas vowed to continue armed struggle against Israel and declared that the Palestinian Authority had accomplished nothing by recognising the Jewish state.* WAR ON TERROR – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called neighbouring Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai oblivious to events in his own country, stepping up a war of words between the two US allies in the “war on terror”.* TENSION OVER TAIWAN – China’s military leaders have ordered the army to step up preparations to prevent Taiwan’s independence following a recent rise in cross-strait tensions, state press reported.* FLU IN CATS – Austrian officials confirmed the H5N1 bird flu was found in cats but said the felines had managed to fight off the virus, while world health experts prepared for the dread possibility of it mutating into a form capable of devastating humans.- Nampa-AFP* HAMAS VOW – The supremo of the Palestinian radical group Hamas vowed to continue armed struggle against Israel and declared that the Palestinian Authority had accomplished nothing by recognising the Jewish state.* WAR ON TERROR – Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf called neighbouring Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai oblivious to events in his own country, stepping up a war of words between the two US allies in the “war on terror”.* TENSION OVER TAIWAN – China’s military leaders have ordered the army to step up preparations to prevent Taiwan’s independence following a recent rise in cross-strait tensions, state press reported.* FLU IN CATS – Austrian officials confirmed the H5N1 bird flu was found in cats but said the felines had managed to fight off the virus, while world health experts prepared for the dread possibility of it mutating into a form capable of devastating humans. – Nampa-AFP