Musharraf imposes emergency rule
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf imposed emergency rule yesterday, deploying troops and sacking a top judge in a bid to reassert his flagging authority against political rivals and Islamist militants.
Russian pensioners protest
About 1,500 people, half of them pensioners, marched through Russia's second city yesterday chanting anti-Kremlin slogans and banging saucepans in protest against rising food prices.
T&T election may create new power broker
A new power broker could emerge in Trinidad and Tobago when the energy-rich Caribbean country, whose politics have long been divided along racial lines, holds a general election on Monday.
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