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December 10, 2008 Wednesday
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MUMBAI - AT one entrance to Mumbai's main train station, police stand guard behind sand bags. At another, they search baggage. But come in a different door and there's almost no security at all.

Since gunmen rampaged through the city, security has been visibly beefed up and politicians are promising reform. But critics say police forces across India are so poorly staffed, trained and funded that only a complete overhaul can bring them into the 21st century.

 
Supporters hold vigil for Chen

TAIPEI - ABOUT 400 supporters of Taiwan's former president held a candlelight vigil outside a suburban Taipei prison on Wednesday, a rare gesture of sympathy for a man whose detention on graft allegations has provoked little public condemnation.

A three-judge panel ordered Chen Shui-bian jailed Nov 12 to allow prosecutors to investigate the allegations, which include money laundering, looting a special presidential fund and accepting bribes.

2 top terror leaders caught

ISLAMABAD - PAKISTAN has arrested two leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group considered the prime suspect behind the Mumbai attacks, the country's prime minister confirmed on Wednesday.

The two men are senior members of the banned Islamist group and have both been named by Indian media as key planners of the devastating attack on Mumbai in which 172 people died.

HK to review flu vaccine

HONG KONG - HONG KONG'S government said on Wednesday it was looking at whether there was a need to change the vaccine used to protect chickens against avian flu after the latest outbreak at a local poultry farm.

Health secretary York Chow said the bird flu virus had mutated, a day after the government confirmed that some chickens from a farm in the New Territories area of Hong Kong, near the border with mainland China, had died of the H5 virus.

   
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