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Jakarta - Trading on the Indonesia Stock Exchange was suspended for a second day Thursday although it might resume Friday if conditions allow, a cabinet minister said.

Rome - The Italian government late Wednesday forged a stabilization package as a “precautionary” measure to secure banks and bank deposits.

Madrid - The Spanish parliament Thursday approved a controversial plan to encourage immigrants to return home amid rising unemployment.

Washington - The US Senate approved a 700-billion-dollar financial rescue package Wednesday night that members said was essential to keep the world’s largest economy from near-total collapse.

Tbilisi/Moscow - EU observers started their mission Wednesday to monitor the Russo-Georgian ceasefire agreement one and half months after conflict flared between the two countries over Georgia’s breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Copenhagen - The Danish foreign ministry confirmed that a Danish diplomat was among the injured in the apparent suicide bomb attack on the five-star Marriot hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday.

Islamabad - At least 50 people were killed and around 200 injured Saturday in an apparent suicide bomb attack on the five-star Marriot hotel in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad, witnesses and officials said.

Moscow - Russia’s military successfully launched its Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile from a nuclear submarine in the White Sea to hit a target in the Pacific thousands of miles away, the Russian Defence Ministry said Thursday.

Sydney - Australian shares gave up 3.3 per cent at the opening bell Thursday in response to the plunge on Wall Street.

Tel Aviv - Transport Minister Shaul Mofaz will demand a recount of Wednesday’s primary vote in Israel’s ruling Kadima party, supporters said early Thursday after he narrowed his gap behind front-runner Tzipi Livni.