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The federal government of the Union of Comoros claims that it has taken control of the breakaway island of Anjouan after an assault by a force backed by African Union troops.
Troops are still facing pockets of resistance, officials said on Tuesday.
Gunfire and explosions were heard on the island since dawn, reporters say.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Thornburg Mortgage Inc (TMA.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which is scrambling to raise nearly $1 billion this week to avoid bankruptcy, said it has changed its by-laws to allow a single investor to buy up to $300 million of stock.
In a filing late Monday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Thornburg [...]

Polls have closed in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan after voters in the world’s newest democracy overcame reluctance to bring an end to a century of absolute monarchy.
About 61 per cent of 318,000 Bhutanese eligible to vote had cast their ballots by early Monday afternoon, Deki Pema, an election commission official, said.
The king had called [...]

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s National Assembly elected as prime minister on Monday Yousaf Raza Gilani, a top official in assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s party, five weeks after it won a general election.
In an immediate challenge to President Pervez Musharraf, Gilani said he would order the immediate release of judges Musharraf detained after he [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The pace of existing home sales in the United States rose in February to a 5.03 million-unit annual rate while prices took a record fall, the National Association of Realtors said in a report on Monday that painted a mixed picture for the housing market.
While February broke a six-month streak of decreasing [...]

A large explosion has been heard in the capital of Yemen, Sanaa.
The blast on Saturday morning was said to have set the Sydney hotel in Sittin Street ablaze.
Ambulances and police vehicles were seen attending the site of the explosion, which has been cordoned off by police.
When contacted by Al Jazeera, the Yemeni authorities declined to [...]

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc’s and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc’s credit rating outlooks were cut on Friday by Standard & Poor’s, which said volatile markets could result in lower profit and revenue.
S&P revised its outlook to “negative” from “stable” on Goldman’s “AA-minus” and Lehman’s “A-plus” long-term credit ratings, suggesting a possible downgrade [...]

KANGDING, China (Reuters) - China said 19 people were killed in riots in the Tibetan capital last week and official media warned against the unrest spreading to the northwest region of Xinjiang, where Uighur Muslims bridle under Chinese control.
Eighteen were burnt or hacked to death in the Lhasa violence, Xinhua news agency said.
The rising toll [...]

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan’s opposition Nationalist Party’s (KMT) presidential candidate, Ma Ying-jeou, has won more than half the vote in Saturday’s election, the party said, auguring improved ties with diplomatic rival China.
Ma had won more than 7 million votes, the party said, more than half the total 13 million people who cast their ballot.
The Central [...]

The new president of Cyprus and the Turkish Cypriot leader have agreed to reopen a key crossing in the island’s divided capital of Nicosia.
The crossing is at Ledra street, a pedestrian thoroughfare in the heart of the city.
The deal was reached during a meeting in Nicosia between Cypriot President Demetris Christofias and Turkish Cypriot leader [...]