● GAZA POST Israel to give medicines to Palestinians

The Israeli Cabinet approved the transfer of $11 million worth of medicine and health supplies to the Palestinians to help ease the deteriorating humanitarian conditions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Israel stopped transferring $55 million in taxes and customs to the Palestinian Authority monthly after the anti-Israeli Hamas group was elected in January. The money, which Israel collects for the Palestinians, is a key source of funding for the Palestinian government.

● DAILY MAIL Galloway: «Bombing Blair would be justified»

George Galloway has said that bombing Prime Minister Tony Blair would be «morally justified» over his decision to go to war in Iraq. The Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow made the controversial remarks in an interview with GQ magazine. He was asked: «Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?»

Mr Galloway replied: «Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of July 7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did.»

● LE FIGARO Chirac dénonce les chantres du déclin

La situation politique pourrait difficilement être plus compliquée pour Jacques Chirac. Mais le président de la République a choisi de ne pas laisser les vicissitudes de l?affaire Clearstream, venant après celles du CPE et de la crise des banlieues, freiner son action sur la scène extérieure. Ni miner son moral. Il a même ironisé sur ce «culte du misérabilisme» si répandu en France «où l?on chagrine, où l?on rechigne» ; une propension que le chef de l?État juge «déconnectée par rapport aux réalités? a-t-il déclaré lors de sa visite officielle au Brésil.

● USA TODAY Senate passes immigration bill

A bipartisan coalition held together to give President Bush the comprehensive immigration bill that he says he wants. But the president may have to shatter his own party?s unity in the House of Representatives if the bill is to become law.

«The ball is in the president?s court,» Senator Charles Schumer, said. The Senate bill would add staff and technology at the nation?s borders, expand opportunities for foreigners to work in the USA and give millions of illegal immigrants who have lived here since January 7, 2004, a chance to become citizen

● KASHMIR TIMES Separatists groups call it a waste of time

Reacting to the two day round table conference over the Kashmir conflict various separatist groups have termed the conference as waste of time.

Syed Ali Geelani, chairman of the Hurriyat Conference has termed the conference as a non-serious approach of government of India towards the resolution of Kashmir issue.

The senior separatist leader has blamed the government of India for not being sincere about the Kashmir issue in its totality and unless the issue is not being discussed under the ambit of United Nation?s resolution on Kashmir, the issue can never be solved, once for all.

● LA LIBRE Meurtres racistes d?Anvers

Pratiquement un mois jour pour jour après la marche silencieuse en mémoire de Joe Van Holsbeeck, assassiné à la gare centrale pour son MP 3, et qui avait réuni 80 000 personnes, les Belges ont à nouveau été conviés à une manifestation dans les rues d?Anvers. Depuis plusieurs jours, les appels à marcher silencieusement pour dénoncer le crime raciste qui a coûté la vie à Oulemata Niangadou (24 ans) et Luna Drowart (2 ans) ainsi que blessé grièvement Songül Koç fusent de toutes parts. La marche a pour mot d?ordre: «le chagrin d?Anvers».