Merkel to win second term
Faces a tough battle:
German Chancellor Angela Merkel looks set to win
a second term in Sunday’s election, but faces a tough battle to
secure the centre-right government she says is needed to nurture
Europe’s largest economy back to health.
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Over 51 dead, 280,000 displaced:
Tropical storm lashes Manila
At least 51 people were killed and more than a
quarter of a million displaced after tropical storm Ketsana dumped
the heaviest rainfall on capital Manila in more than four decades,
officials said Sunday. Manila and surrounding areas were lashed with
heavy rains for nine hours Saturday, leading to flash floods that
inundated about 80 percent of the capital of more than 12 million
inhabitants.
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Indians ask Obama to free the Cuban Five
All Indian Lawyers Union, AILU has sent an open
letter to US President Barack Obama, with a demand to release the
antiterrorist Cuban Five unjustly held in US since 1998.
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