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Germany Divided Over Security Response While 51 percent of Germans express concern at the prospect of their country becoming a target for terrorists, politicians are bickering over what action to take to secure the country from attack. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1647904,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- British police seek more suspects British news sources report that police were still searching sites for suspects in last week's bombings in London. Police have already said four suspects were seen on closed-circuit television arriving at King's Cross station in central London shortly before last Thursday's rush-hour blasts, which killed at least 52 people. At least three of the suspects are believed to have been killed in the blasts. Britain urges new EU security laws British Home Secretary Charles Clarke is urging the European Union to speed up the passage and implementation of new security laws to better fight terrorism. Clarke is in Brussels to chair a special meeting of EU interior ministers in the wake of the London bomb attacks. Back in Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair said his government would urgently consider toughening entry procedures to combat extremism. Italian police launch security sweep Italian police have launched a crackdown on suspected Islamist militants following last week's deadly attacks in London. The details of the sweep, which is still underway, are not yet available. The operation comes a day after interior minister Giuseppe Pisanu warned that terrorism was "knocking on Italy's door". He urged parliament to strengthen security laws to help ensure the country did not become the next target. Pisanu called for beefing up controls at Italy's borders and an extension of the period a suspect can be detained for identification. Over 150 die in Pakistan train crash In Pakistan, at least 150 people have been killed and hundreds of others injured in a crash involving three passenger trains. Railway officials said human error was to blame for the crash near Ghotki in Sindh province. Police and rescuers are still searching for bodies in the mangled remains of carriages. Nineteen carriages were derailed in all. President Pervez Musharraf has ruled out sabotage. 24 Iraqi children killed by car bomb Twenty-four Iraqi civilians, most of them children, have been killed by a suicide car bomber targeting American soldiers. Some 20 more children were wounded in the blast, which also left one US soldier dead and three injured. The explosion took place as the US soldiers handed out sweets to children, after entering their Baghdad neighborhood precisely to warn of a possible attack. Meanwhile, a senior official in Iraq's Interior Ministry acknowledged that up to 10 Sunni Arabs suffocated in a police vehicle while in custody. He said those responsible would stand trial. The incident has angered many Iraqis as tension between Sunnis and the Shiite-dominated government is rising. Abducted Briton, Austrian freed in Gaza Palestinian officials say that two engineers from Britain and Austria who were kidnapped and held at a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip have been released. Witnesses said the two men, who were working on a water development project in Gaza, were seized from their car by masked gunmen in Gaza City. The kidnappers were allegedly trying to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to release jailed relatives. Anti-Arroyo protesters rally in Manila Tens of thousands of protesters have gathered in the Philippine capital Manila to call on President Gloria Arroyo to resign over charges that she rigged last year's election. An estimated crowd of about 30,000 people packed Manila's Makati financial district in the biggest protest since the political scandal erupted. Arroyo has apologised for what she called "a lapse in judgement" when she contacted an election official during the vote count. But she denies vote-rigging charges. Arroyo has refused to step down, saying that would result in political turmoil in the Philippines. Rice optimistic on North Korea talks US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that the United States and South Korea are optimistic North Korea might agree to scrap its nuclear plans through offers of energy aid. South Korea said it had offered to supply the North with electricity and food aid. Rice spoke after after meeting South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon in Seoul. After holding out for a year, North Korea agreed last weekend to return to the talks on ending its nuclear plans. Other countries taking part include China, which is hosting the meetings, the United States, South Korea, Japan and Russia. Australia to send troops to Afghanistan Australian Prime Minister John Howard has said his country will send 150 special forces and support troops back to Afghanistan. Howard told reporters in Canberra on Wednesday that the troops would help the United States hunt down a resurgent Taliban and al Qaeda. He said Australia would also consider sending up to 200 extra personnel to Afghanistan early next year to help with reconstruction and as part of increased efforts by his country to support the war on terror. No changes are planned to the current military commitment in Iraq, where over 1,300 Australian troops are deployed. Dozens killed in Kenya clan violence At least 55 people have killed in a raid by cattle rustlers and a subsequent revenge attack by locals in a remote village in northern Kenya. Local officials said most of the dead were women and children getting ready for school. The attack in the village of Turbi - populated mainly by the Gabra clan - is blamed on the rival Borana crossing the border from Ethiopia. The two groups have feuded over water and pasture in the semi-arid region. Police said locals from the Gabra clan later attacked a truck carrying people from the Borana clan and killed 10 of them in revenge. NASA shuttle to return to flight The US space agency NASA is set to launch its Shuttle Discovery from its base in Florida later on Wednesday. It will be the first human space mission since the fatal Columbia disaster in February 2003 that killed all seven astronauts aboard. Discovery's flight is meant to kick-start the stalled construction of the International Space Station and to be the first step on the road back to the moon and to Mars and beyond. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Send us your favorite picks for sight-seeing, museum hopping, historical edification – whatever you've got to share with others heading to Germany. Restaurants, hotels, back-country hideaways – write to us with your insider tips and tell us about what you liked best about traveling in Germany. 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