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...angry, that the government has lost all credibility by doing this." That's certainly what Anwar's supporters believe, including office worker Hanifah Majid, who showed her solidarity by bringing her sleeping children with her to the lobby of a hotel where Anwar was strategizing his defense well past midnight. Still, it's not yet clear how parliamentarians who were tempted to join the opposition will react to the sodomy accusation. Already, Anwar has indefinitely delayed plans to publicly introduce National Front lawmakers whom he says have defected to his camp. Malaysians may have just experienced...
...Kreuzberg waving both Turkish and German flags, chanting through megaphones. A convoy of Turkish cars waved a giant Turkish flag and a smaller German one. Tayfun Kaleci, a young, well-built fan outside an all-night Turkish bakery grinned at a parade of noisily honking cars cruising by after midnight. Turkey was the better team, he says. But in the final, he knows he'll be rooting for Germany - "Definitely!" -With reporting by Olga von Schubert/Kreuzberg
...political crisis, postponed parliamentary elections and helped install a caretaker government of state-appointed bureaucrats known as "advisers," headed by a former World Bank executive, Fakhruddin Ahmed. Since then, Bangladesh has remained under emergency rule: civil liberties have taken a hit and thousands of suspected troublemakers picked up in midnight sweeps. Behind all this, it's commonly understood that Moeen and the military really run the show. The Harvard-trained general was made army chief just under three years ago and is coy about the extent of his power. In his first major interview with foreign media, he told TIME...
...Israel responded with three air and artillery strikes. Says one Islamic Jihad rocket-man named Mohamed, limping from a piece of Israeli shrapnel in his foot: "We had a busy day. Our commanders told us to fire off as many rockets as we could." Mohammed was injured shortly before midnight by an Israeli artillery shell two minutes after he fired his ninth rocket under a glaring full moon...
...retail price of diesel and gasoline by just 9% since January 2007. (Over the same period, the price in the U.S. has jumped 77%.) Observers say China will probably stand pat at the pump until after the Beijing Olympic Games in August. That could keep Chinese happily burning the midnight oil - and keep global oil prices high, since growing demand from China has contributed significantly to crude's price run-up in the past few years, according to economists. It's too early to say, but the recent spike in oil prices could be another nail in the coffin...