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Morning News


Dec.24   Uzbekistan   Karimov wins 'sham' election
  Authoritarian President won a new term in office with 88.1% of the votes in an election dismissed by critics as a sham


  Thailand   Thaksin party 'can form alliance'  People Power Party (PPP) which won most seats in election has claimed it has the backing of enough smaller parties to form a ruling coalition

  Southern Italy Firm quits Sicily to spurn Mafia  An Italian cement firm Italcementi is pulling out in protest at what it says is extortion

  Germany Thousands sought over child porn  Prosecutors are investigating 12,000 suspected members of a child sex abuse network on the WWW - the biggest in the country's history

  Taiwan Chiang Kai-shek mausoleum closed  Authorities closed the mausoleum of late leader amid the ruling party's vigorous campaign to downgrade the legacy of the dictator

Day News


  Kashmir   Mosque besieged
  A standoff in village of Palnu is continuing with three militants holding a pair of hostages. Indian security forces are outside the mosque


  Northern Iraq     Iraq Kurds warn Turkey over raids  Massoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, has warned Turkey to halt its strikes against rebel Kurdish positions in the border area

  Vatican Millions celebrate Christmas Day  In the West Bank town of Bethlehem, the site of Jesus' birth, thousands of worshippers gathered to celebrate midnight Mass

  Washington Bush sees 3-way fight against PKK  U.S., Turkish and Iraqi leaders all held talks about Kurdish rebels using northern Iraq as a launchpad for cross-border attacks

Evening News


  Hong Kong   Thaksin considers Thailand return  Former Thai PM, who was forced from power by a military coup more than a year ago, says he is considering returning home from exile

  Zimbabwe   Hours-long lines to get scarce currency  Thousands of Zimbabweans waited for hours to get currency from the banks so they could buy food and board buses for Christmas trips

  Canada Jazz legend Oscar Peterson dies  Jazz pianist and composer has died of kidney failure at his home in Toronto, at the age of 82

  South Korea 14 sailors missing  The Eastern Bright, a 13,000-ton freighter, a ship carrying nitric acid, sank off the coast of South Korea in rough seas

  Somalia French journalist freed  Cameraman Gwen Le Gouil, kidnapped eight days ago by tribal clan, was producing a television documentary about human trafficking
San Francisco Bay Area , December 24, 2007 Timeline