BUDAPEST, Hungary — Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany vowed Tuesday to stay in office after rioters angered by his admission of lying about the economy stormed the headquarters of Hungarian state television and briefly forced it off the air. Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra [official website; BBC profile] declared a state of emergency in Bangkok Tuesday after army tanks assembled around government buildings in the city, blocking traffic. In the face of a rumored coup in Thailand [JURIST news archive], Thaksin, who is in New York for the opening of the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, ordered the military not to "move illegally." Mogadishu - Gunmen killed an Italian nun at a children's hospital in Mogadishu on Sunday in an attack that drew immediate speculation of links to Muslim anger over the pope's recent remarks on Islam. The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced on Wednesday that a Sudanese staff member was abducted and killed after distributing food in North Darfur in mid-August. Sept. 19 -- The European Union's energy chief said he was taking ``very seriously'' the Russian government's cancellation of Royal Dutch Shell Plc's permit for the $20 billion Sakhalin-2 oil and gas project.
