MUMBAI - India's prime minister pointed a finger on Thursday
at "external linkages" for the attacks in Mumbai that killed
more than 100 people, as militants holding hostages in a Jewish
centre offered to hold talks.
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BANGKOK - Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat declared a
state of emergency on Thursday at two Bangkok airports besieged
by anti-government protesters, a minister said, as rumours of a
coup swirled round the capital.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq's parliament passed a law approving a
controversial security pact with Washington on Thursday, paving
the way for a U.S. troop withdrawal by the end of 2011, state
television showed.
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LONDON/SINGAPORE - China warned on Thursday its economic
downturn was deepening and pressure grew on the European Central
Bank (ECB) to make a big cut in interest rates to help contain
the global financial crisis.
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COLOMBO - The defiant leader of the Tamil Tiger rebels said
in his annual address on Thursday that a military onslaught
against him would be defeated, as air force jets bombed a rebel
radio station for the second year running.
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BEIJING - China on Thursday said French President Nicolas
Sarkozy's planned meeting with the Dalai Lama forced it to
postpone a China-EU summit and warned Sarkozy that his country
has a big stake in close ties with Beijing.
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KINSHASA - Europe heard growing appeals on Thursday to rush
a military force to east Congo until the arrival of U.N.
reinforcements, from which diplomats said Kinshasa wants to
exclude Indian troops.
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PETACH TIKVA, Israel - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
came under pressure from his own party on Thursday to step aside
after the attorney-general announced he was considering
indicting him on fraud and bribery charges.
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MOSCOW - Islamist militants claimed responsibility on
Thursday for killing a mayor in Russia's North Caucasus, an
attack that prompted security services to warn that violence in
the region could destabilise the entire country.
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KABUL - A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of foreign
troops near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Thursday, killing four
civilians, the government said.
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