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Germany
Senator Barack Obama on Thursday addressed around 200,000 people in Berlin and issued a call for cooperation, imploring America and Europe to bridge differences and rekindle old alliances in an effort to restore global stability and better confront existing and unforeseen threats.
United Kingdom
Britain's ruling Labour Party lost a parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds, an electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed on Friday.
Philippines
A Qantas Airways flight from Hong Kong to Melbourne made an emergency landing in Manila on Friday due to problems with cabin pressure, airport officials said.
U.S.A.
Hurricane Dolly, which lashed the US-Mexico coastline, weakened to a tropical depression on Thursday over South Texas, but concern remained over flooding along the populous Rio Grande Valley.
U.S.A.
A man shot three people Thursday in a computer room at a Phoenix community college, injuring two of them critically, authorities said. The gunman fled but a suspect was arrested nearby.
Thailand
Cambodians go to the polls on Sunday in an election overshadowed by a row with neighbouring Thailand over a 900-year-old temple.
Pakistan
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday that Pakistan needed to do more to help curb the flow of militants across its border into Afghanistan.
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Editorial/World
Pakistan should ensure that people are not held on mere allegations.
Columns/World
Worried Swedes feel their freedom is threatened by an over-bearing government.
Columns/World
There is no safeguard in Indo-US nuclear deal against transfer or replication of imported nuclear technology to the military side
Columns/World
Worldview
Columns/World
To pursue the battle against Al Qaida by military means is to awaken the powerful tribal and Muslim resentments.
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