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World Headlines
- Passengers rescued from Canadian-owned ship in Antarctic
- All passengers and crew members aboard a Canadian-owned cruise ship were rescued Friday after the vessel struck ice in Antarctic waters near Argentina.
- Lebanon declares state of emergency as political crisis looms
- Lebanese President Emile Lahoud declared a state of emergency and gave control of the country to the army on Friday night, less than four hours before his term was set to expire.
- Howard seeks 5th term in Saturday's Australian elections
- Polls suggest Australian Prime Minister John Howard's re-election is in doubt, despite a sound economy and near record-low unemployment rates under his leadership.
- Harper alone on climate change at Commonwealth summit
- Prime Minister Stephen Harper is facing heavy political pressure to agree to binding targets for greenhouse gas emissions as Commonwealth summit delegates in Uganda attempt to form a strong, united front in the fight against climate change.
- Philippines, Vietnam brace for dual typhoons
- Almost half a million people fled coastal villages in Vietnam and the Philippines on Friday as two separate typhoons roared towards the southeast Asian countries.
- Saudis to attend U.S.-sponsored Mideast summit
- Saudi Arabia will attend next week's Middle East summit in Maryland, fulfilling a key U.S. goal to show strong Arab support for reviving stalled peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.
- Trains roll again as French strike eases
- Traffic on French trains, subways and buses started returning to normal Friday after striking transport workers ended a nine-day walkout over President Nicolas Sarkozy's reforms.
- Pakistan denounces Commonwealth suspension as 'unreasonable'
- Pakistan's Foreign Ministry is denouncing the Commonwealth's suspension of its membership as "unreasonable and unjustified."
- At least 13 lawyers killed as blasts hit 3 Indian cities
- A series of near-simultaneous explosions ripped through courthouse complexes Friday in three north Indian cities, with blasts in Lucknow, Varanasi and Faizabad killing at least 13 lawyers and injuring dozens more, officials said.
- Bromide poisoning sickens 400 in Angola, WHO suspects
- Nearly 400 people, most of them children, have become ill in Angola in what medical investigators suspect is an outbreak of bromide poisoning, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday.