26.12.2009 - Germany joins in commemorating Asian tsunami victims
German survivors and relatives of victims of the devastating 2004 tsunami gathered for a memorial service at the Johannes church in the western German city of Duesseldorf on Saturday. The remembrance marked five years since giant waves claimed some 230,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands of others at Indian Ocean coastline settlements on Boxing Day in 2004...

26.12.2009 - Fears of new Russia-Ukraine gas dispute mount
DW-WORLD: Ukraine promises to keep gas flowing west this winter At a meeting between the EU and Ukraine, Kiev vowed to avoid a repeat of fuel shortages in Europe this winter by keeping its gas pipelines open. One-fifth of EU gas supplies travel to Europe from Russia via Ukraine...

26.12.2009 - Fears of new Russia-Ukraine gas dispute on the rise
DW-WORLD: Ukraine promises to keep gas flowing west this winter At a meeting between the EU and Ukraine, Kiev vowed to avoid a repeat of fuel shortages in Europe this winter by keeping its gas pipelines open. One-fifth of EU gas supplies travel to Europe from Russia via Ukraine...

26.12.2009 - Security stepped up at airports worldwide after airline incident
The US has called on airlines and airports worldwide to instate heightened security measures, including frisking all passengers headed to the US and extra checks on carry-on luggage. The request came after an incident in which a Nigerian passenger tried to detonate an explosive device as his plane began its descent into Detroit...

26.12.2009 - Iraq at a crossroads: A return to chaos or are better times ahead?
Iraq had once seemed condemned to a near-endless cycle of slaughter. At their most lethal the heavy years of the gun and the bomb were a brutal combination of terror attacks, internecine sectarian fighting, rampant criminal activity and combat with and military action by coalition forces that collectively, according to the British Medical Journal the Lancet, may have caused between 600,000 to over a million, mostly civilian fatalities...

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