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Sarkozy and Brown call for global market changes
British PM Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy have issued a joint call for urgent global reform of financial markets.
Suicide blasts hit Pakistani cities
Five people were killed in a blast in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, and another bombing later killed two people in the city of Rawalpindi in the northwest.The explosion in Rawalpindi occurred outside a shrine visited by Shia Muslims
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Karzai vows to fight corruption after re-election as Afghan leader
Hamid Karzai vowed to tackle corruption in his government and reach out to his political opponents today, but gave no commitments to specific action in his first speech since being re-appointed as president of Afghanistan.
Speaking at the presidential palace in Kabul, Karzai echoed the commitments that his western backers had pushed him to accept, including appointing a clean government and making progress in peace negotiations with the Taliban.
He said his government would be one of national unity and hoped that "no one feels themselves isolated from this future government". But he did not offer a place in the government to his main opponent in the elections, Abdullah Abdullah, and he pointedly avoided commenting on any role for his rival..
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