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AFP - Thousands of stuck travellers were preparing to leave Bangkok's main airport as it resumed full operations, but political uncertainty dragged on after the king cancelled his annual birthday speech.
Read Tourists flood out of Thailand but turmoil remains (AFP) (Links)
AP - A Pakistani militant group apparently used an Indian operative as far back as 2007 to scout targets for the elaborate plot against India's financial capital, authorities said, a blow to Indian officials who have blamed the deadly attacks entirely on Pakistani extremists.
Read India names Pakistani masterminds (AP) (Links)
PC World - The European Commission has set up an advisory panel including executives from Google and Intel to help it revise European Union laws on data protection.
Read Intel, Google Asked to Help Revise EU Data Protection Laws (PC World) (Links)
AP - Israeli defense officials say the military has been placed on alert to head off settler violence in wake of the evacuation of a disputed building.
Read Israel's military on alert for settler violence (AP) (Links)
AP - Australia's driest state has been forced to purchase water for the first time to ensure adequate supplies in the midst of a drought, a government official said Friday.
Read Drought forces Australian state to purchase water (AP) (Links)
AP - A security pact with a timetable for pulling U.S. forces from Iraq won final government approval Thursday, even as suicide bombers killed 17 people and wounded more than 100. Two Americans were among the dead.
Read Iraq OKs pact with timetable; attacks kill 17 (AP) (Links)
AFP - Zimbabwe's government pleaded for international help after declaring a national emergency over a cholera epidemic that has left 560 dead, as Britain warned the country had become a "failed state."
Read Zimbabwe pleads for help amid growing cholera epidemic (AFP) (Links)
AP - Fidel Castro said Thursday that President-elect Barack Obama is a man Cuba can talk with and indicated that communist officials would be willing to meet with him wherever he wants.
Read Fidel Castro says Cuba can talk with Obama (AP) (Links)
AP - Knut the superstar polar bear turns two on Friday looking nothing like the button-eyed ball of white fluff who captured hearts around the world.
Read Boot Knut? Ex-cuddly polar bear cub faces uncertain future (AP) (Links)
AP - Countries around the world are looking to Barack Obama for leadership in reaching a global climate treaty next year, but no nation will be able to singlehandedly deliver a final agreement, a senior U.N. official said Thursday.
Read Countries looking to US leadership on climate (AP) (Links)
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