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Dubai - A Sudanese aircraft reportedly hijacked with more than 80 passengers aboard landed in Libya, the al-Jazeera news agency reported.

Bucharest - Ford Motor Co’s Romanian plant saw profits drop by more than 26 per cent in the first half of 2008 on weaker sales, news reports said Tuesday.

Belgrade - Around 10 people were injured in an explosion in an ammunition factory in the central Serbian town of Krusevac, local media reported on Tuesday.

Vienna - Former boxing world champion Edip Sekowitsch died Tuesday of multiple stab wounds outside a pub he owned in Vienna, Austrian media reported.

Pristina: There are indications that Kosovo’s status “could be frozen” – says an influential Kosovo Albanian journalist.

Researchers reported that burning incense, apart from giving a sweet fragrance, could increase the risk of respiratory tract cancers. Researchers from Statens Serum Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark studied more than 61,000 Chinese living in Singapore for a 12 year period to try to discover a link between heavy incense use and respiratory cancers.

Brussels - French car manufacturers are the closest to hitting proposed European Union targets for reducing their carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, while Japanese makers are the furthest away, a study by a Brussels pressure group released Tuesday said.

Jerusalem - Israeli settlement construction in the occupied West Bank has nearly doubled this year, with 2,600 housing units being built in settlements, the Peace Now group said in a report Tuesday.

Berlin - German economic confidence slipped again, two key surveys to be released Tuesday are forecast to show, amid worries about the outlook for Europe’s biggest economy.

Washington - US President George W Bush on Monday sharply criticized the Russian parliament’s resolution recognizing the independence of the Georgian breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.