LONDON/NEW YORK - China vowed renewed measures to revitalize
its economy on Wednesday after exports tumbled and domestic
demand shrank, with bleak figures from Europe showing how badly
its major trading partners were faring.
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ATHENS - Protesters threw fire bombs at police outside
parliament on Wednesday during a general strike which paralysed
Greece and piled pressure on a conservative government reeling
from the worst riots in decades.
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ABUJA - Nigeria's Supreme Court will on Friday deliver a
final judgment on legal challenges to President Umaru Yar'Adua's
April 2007 election victory, opposition lawyers said on
Wednesday.
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MOGADISHU - Somalia's moderate Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif
Ahmed returned to Mogadishu for the first time in two years on
Wednesday and a local rights group said fighting had killed
16,210 civilians since then.
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OSLO - Nobel Peace Prize winner Martti Ahtisaari urged U.S.
President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday to delve into solving
the Middle East conflict in his first year in office, calling it
a knot that could be untied.
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ISLAMABAD - Pakistan confirmed on Wednesday the arrest of
two men named by India as planners of the militant attack on
Mumbai, but a senior Indian official described Pakistani actions
so far as "eyewash".
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BEIJING - Talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear
weapons ambitions failed to break an impasse over rules for
probing its atomic activities, negotiators said on Wednesday,
offering dim prospects of a breakthrough.
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HARARE - The death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak
soared to nearly 800 on Wednesday and a court ordered police to
find a missing rights activist, piling more pressure on
President Robert Mugabe's government.
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BUCHAREST - Romania's president picked liberal economist
Theodor Stolojan on Wednesday to head a probable coalition
between centrist and leftist parties with a history of bitter
rivalry.
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BRUSSELS - Differences are narrowing in the European Union
over how to tackle the economic slowdown and global warming but
a final deal on both issues is proving elusive before a summit
starting on Thursday.
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MENA - More than two million Muslims performing the haj
pilgrimage entered the final stage of the rituals on Wednesday,
visiting the Grand Mosque in Mecca and stoning walls
representing the devil one more time.
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