Six In The Morning

Netanyahu on Iran: 'None of us can afford to wait much longer'
Israel has waited for the international community to resolve the issue, Netanyahu said in his address, but diplomacy and sanctions have failed

Chris McGreal in Washington guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 6 March 2012 06.04 GMT
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, invoked the spectre of Auschwitz as he chided those who question whether Iran is in pursuit of a nuclear weapon and warned that "none of us can afford to wait much longer" to act against Tehran. In an address to the powerful pro-Israel lobby in Washington, Netanyahu derided the effectiveness of sanctions hours after a meeting with Barack Obama at which the US president appealed for time for diplomacy to pressure Iran to open up its nuclear programme to inspection.

'Putin is a thief' cry Russians as inspectors attack vote
Protesters arrested as problems emerge with landslide win

Moscow Tuesday 06 March 2012
A day after Vladimir Putin won a return to the Kremlin for six years, thousands of Russians took to a central Moscow square last night to decry Vladimir Putin's reelection as illegitimate, while the only international observer body monitoring the elections said that there were "serious problems" with the vote. Mr Putin's supporters waved Russian flags and danced outside the Kremlin for a second evening but 10 minutes' walk away at Pushkin Square, the anti-Putin opposition gathered around 20,000 Muscovites who chanted "Putin is a thief" and "Russia will be free". Some stayed behind afterwards, and police arrested over 200 people at the square, including the protest leader Alexei Navalny.

Mother hopes tale of a fortunate son will keep the focus on tsunami victims


Danielle Demetriou and Nick Meo March 6, 2012
WRAPPED in a beige blanket and surrounded by sea-soaked debris, broken homes and smashed cars, Yuko Sugimoto had only one thing on her mind: how to find her four-year-old son. She had not seen him for more than 24 hours, since the tsunami had swamped almost half of the city of Ishinomaki in north-eastern Japan - with her son's kindergarten among the submerged buildings. As Mrs Sugimoto's eyes scanned the wreckage of her home town, her haunting expression was captured by a photographer who she does not recall seeing. The result was an iconic image of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan on March 11 last year.

Wade minister quits to join opposition leader
DAKAR

By TAMBA JEAN-MATTHEW III NATION Correspondent
Senegal opposition candidate Macky Sall got a boost after a key minister in President Wade’s government resigned and joined him in his campaign ahead of the March 25 run-off poll. “We have decided to team up for the simple reason that Macky Sall, with whom I worked during his tenure as premier between 2005 and 2007, is an excellent successor to complete the wonderful works started by President Wade,” Adama Sall told reporters on Monday.

Holes in North Korea nuke deal
Korea

By Naoko Aoki
Last week's agreement between the United States and North Korea over Pyongyang's nuclear program - the first negotiated progress on the issue in four years - has spurred debate about whether the new deal will stick. While there has been widespread speculation about whether North Korea will really suspend work at its uranium enrichment plant at Yongbyon, refrain from nuclear and missile testing, and allow the return of international inspectors in exchange for 240,000 tons of US food aid, little attention has been given to the impact those actions would actually have on Pyongyang's nuclear program.