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Another major European bank is close to collapse following the failure of talks to rescue Germany’s second largest mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate. The announcement comes as leaders of the major European economies agree to work together to help their troubled financial institutions. Emergency talks in Paris failed to bring an announcement of any big bail-out plan similar to that in the United States. Alasdair Sandford reports from Paris.

Not long after the end of the summit came a reminder of how serious the crisis is, Germany’s second largest mortgage lender Hypo Real Estate is in trouble again after banks and insurers pulled out of a state-led rescue plan. Earlier, the four European leaders agreed at the summit that there would be no European bail-out fund for banks in trouble. President Sarkozy said they had promised to work together instead to support institutions that get into difficulty. President Sarkzoy and the Head of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, said that the EU’s strict budget rules would be applied flexibly during the current exceptional circumstances.

Police in the Mexican city of Tijuana say they have discovered ten more murder victims in the city where gang-related violence has escalated in the past week. Police say five of the bodies were found in an abandoned van near a shopping center. Warren Bull of our America’s desk reports.

It’s been a particularly bloody week even by the standards of Tijuana, a key transit point for drugs trafficked to the United States. More than 50 people have been killed in the city in seven days. And the brutal treatment of the victims has shocked residents used to violence. State prosecutors blamed the murders on rival drug factions, including members of the Arellano Felix drug cartel. On Tuesday, the Mexican President Felipe Calderon send a series of measures to Congress aimed at fighting the wave of drug-related violence in Mexico, that’s killed over 3,000 people this year.

North Korea’s reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is reported to have made his first public appearance since rumors surfaced that he had suffered a stroke. Here is Steve Jackson from our Asia Pacific desk.

It’s seven weeks since Kim Jong-il last appeared in public. And his absence has fueled much speculation that he is in poor health. South Korean Intelligence reports say he fell ill in August, but had since made a slight recovery reportedly after a brain surgery. North Korea’s tightly-controlled state media say Mr. Kim went to a football match in Pyongyang. But no details were given on his health. The rumors have raised questions about who’s been running the country in the interim and who will eventually succeed the 66-year-old autocrat.

Israel has accused North Korea of helping at least 6 Mid-eastern countries to acquire weapons of mass destruction. An Israeli envoy told the annual conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency that North Korea was a dangerous and threatening proliferator of such weapons.

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The Indian army has deployed troops in two areas of the northeastern state of Assam after 11 people were killed in riots between local tribesmen and migrants of Bengali dissent. Among the dead were three people killed when police opened fire. The trouble began later on Friday when rumors spread that the migrants had kidnapped one of the local Bodo tribesmen. Several villages where the migrants have settled were attacked and they in turn attacked Bodo communities.

The Turkish government says that the destruction of the Kurdish separatist rebels will now be its main priority. They are fighting for a homeland in the southeast of the country. The statement followed an emergency meeting of Turkey’s political and military leaders. Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Erdogan is cutting short his regional tour to go home after Friday’s attack, the deadliest by the Kurdish forces for a year.

We were in meetings when we heard this information. This is similar to an event last May in the same region. The news we have is that we have 50 martyrs. Two other soldiers are lost. 23 terrorists were put out of action and we have 20 wounded soldiers that were injured during the fight.

The United States military says two of its helicopters have crashed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad following a collision. A spokesman said the Black Hawk helicopters went down after dark in the Sunni district of Adhamiyah. Officials said an Iraqi soldier was killed and four others were injured, two of them, American military personnel.

The government in Italy has deployed 500 troops around the southern town of Caserta near Naples where thousands of people have been demonstrating against racism and the apparent mafia killing of six African immigrants last month. Italian police say they believe the Neapolitan mafia, the Camorra, shot dead the immigrants to warn off Africans who got involved in the drugs trade.

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