In a rejoinder to an article by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, Masooda Bano argues that Musharraf is telling Muslim nations to follow Washington's dictates

The opponents of President Hugo Chavez scored a small victory when they gathered enough votes to trigger a plebiscite which could impeach him. But it may be too early to celebrate, Hisham El-Naggar writes from Buenos Aires

The Italian government may have clinched a deal with the abductors of three Italian nationals in Iraq, reports Samia Nkrumah from Rome

Two "secret" Bush administration memos link top-level US officials to the Abu Ghraib case, writes Faiza Rady

If EU parliamentary elections are a barometer of the public mood in Italy, the results do not augur well for the Berlusconi administration. Samia Nkrumah reports from Rome

Voters in the majority of EU states stayed at home on elections day, except for those in three eastern Mediterranean countries. Michael Jansen reports from Nicosia