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Luxembourg Backs EU Constitution Luxembourg voters approved the EU's constitution Sunday, according to official results of a referendum, perhaps giving the moribund charter a new lease on life. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1645382,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Last chance to play! DW-WORLD's "Click Back" monthly review quiz for July is waiting for you and will test your knowledge of stories we've written. If you answer all questions correctly, you can also win a great prize. To play, please go to: http://www.dw-world.de/english ---------------------------------------------------------------------- At least 20 hurt in Turkey bomb attack At least 20 people have been injured in a bomb attack in the popular Turkish resort of Cesme. Officials said two foreigners were among the wounded. The explosive device was reportedly placed in a waste bin near a bank. Bomb experts are still investigating at the scene of the blast and police have sealed off the area. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. In the past, Islamist militants and a Kurdish separatist group have been blamed for bomb attacks in Turkey in the past. Security scare in Birmingham Police have lifted an evacuation order in the British city of Birmingham. Some twenty thousand people had to leave the main entertainment centre there because of a security scare. Police carried out a controlled explosion on an object abandoned on a bus but it was later found to be harmless. They said the incident was not connected to the terrorist bombings in London on Thursday. Meanwhile, British officials say dozens of people are still missing following the terrorist bombings on the London Underground and a bus. The death toll from Thursday's attacks stands at over 50, but officials said it could be weeks before all of the dead are identified. At least 25 die in Iraq suicide attack A suicide bomber has killed at least 25 people and wounded dozens more at an Iraqi army recruiting centre in western Baghdad. The attack was claimed by al Qaeda's Iraq wing in an Internet posting. Baghdad's Muthanna airfield recruitment station, near the city centre, has been struck before, as part of a campaign by Sunni Arab insurgents against the Shi'ite-led government's new security forces. US, UK look at possible troop reductions A document from Britain's Defence Ministry discussing possible troop withdrawals in Iraq has been leaked to London's Mail on Sunday newspaper. A memo apparently written by British Defence Secretary John Reid stated that the British and American governments had plans to reduce their troop levels in Iraq by more than half by mid-2006. Operations would be handed over to Iraqi forces. In response to the leaked information, Reid said British forces would stay in Iraq as long as possible. Defence officials at the Pentagon in Washington said there was no definite time-line for a US troop withdrawal. Yes votes ahead in Luxembourg EU vote Early results from Luxembourg's referendum on the EU constitution show 59 percent in favour. The figures are based on counting in half of the country's polling stations. If the results are confirmed, the vote would make the tiny country, the first to ratify the treaty by popular vote since it was rejected by French and Dutch voters a little over a month ago. Some 230,000 citizens were eligible to vote. Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker said he would resign if the country rejected the constitution. German Greens put faith in Fischer Germany's Green Party, the junior partner in Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's coalition government, has agreed its election programme for national polls expected on September 18. Delegates at a party congress in Berlin put their faith in prominent Greens member and foreign minister Joschka Fischer to head the campaign. On Sunday, Fischer urged partymen to ignore opinion polls showing their coalition with Chancellor Schroeder's Social Democrats far behind the conservative opposition. For the first time ever, the Greens put the environment in second place on the election manifesto, giving greater importance to the growing problem of unemployment. The party also wants to raise taxes on high-income earners by 3 percentage points to 45 percent. US concerned about China military US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, on a visit to Beijing, has said the US government was concerned about the size and pace of China's military buildup. She added that the US did not view it as a threat but was more concerned about the balance of power in the region. Also in her meetings with Chinese leaders, Rice said she had discussed US concerns over China's human rights record. She also said she had encouraged Chinese leaders to engage in dialogue with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, adding that he was not a threat to China. Mourners gather for Srebrenica memorial Thousands of people have begun to arrive in the eastern Bosnian town of Srebrenica to commemorate the massacre of thousands of Bosnian Muslims by Serb forces 10 years ago. A memorial ceremony will take place on Monday which will also include the burial of 610 victims identified by DNA analysis over the years. Bosnian Serb troops, under the command of General Ratko Mladic and former President Radovan Karadzic, executed 8,000 Muslim men and boys in the final months of the war, which took place from 1992-95. 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