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Daily Times Monitor LAHORE: In a meeting with some journalists, United States President George W Bush has "conveyed the following impression, that he thought the next president's biggest challenge would not be ...

The Bush administration says it has already cleared one in five detainees at Guantanamo Bay for release from the military-run facility in Cuba.

The EU should set up a network of anti-terrorism centres across the Union to share intelligence gathered by secret service agencies to tackle terrorism, writes Jamie Smyth in Cannes. It also needs to beef up security measures to protect citizens from the threat of a biological or nuclear attack from terrorists by screening more freight arriving at ports and conducting background checks on transport employees. Full Story

Somali pirates have released a German-owned ship and its 15-man crew after a receiving a hefty ransom payment. "The information we have is that the MV Lehmann Timber was released on Tuesday when a ransom of $750,000 (478,000 euros) was paid," Andrew Mwangura of the Kenya-based East African Seafarers' Assistance program told DPA news agency on Wednesday, July 9. Full Story

Gunmen opened fire on Turkish security guards outside the United States Consulate in Istanbul, and at least three officers were killed, a governor said.Full Story

Sri Lankan public sector unions on Wednesday threatened to cripple all state services in a July 10 general strike for a pay increase, but the government said it could not meet their demands without hurting its war effort. Full Story

Heavy fighting erupted again Wednesday between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern lebanon, killing at least three people and wounding 32 others and shattering a fragile truce that lasted just two weeks, security officials said. Full Story

Six-nation talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear activities were to resume in Beijing on Thursday amid cautious optimism they would move a step closer to securing complete disarmament. The talks have not been held for nine months amid delays in securing from the reclusive North Korean regime a declaration of its nuclear activities, as agreed in a landmark six-nation accord reached last year. Full Story

Philippine troops held talks with Muslim secessionist rebels in an emergency meeting on Wednesday in an attempt to defuse rising tensions that could further derail negotiations to end nearly 40 years of conflict, both sides said. Full Story

Despite a string of successes against allies of Al Qaeda, Indonesia is on alert for fresh attacks as it hunts an escaped extremist and braces for possible retaliation if it carries out the execution of three men convicted in a 2002 bombing. Full Story