Four parties cleared the threshold for seats in the eighty-member chamber. None of them is close to a majority, and the government will have to be assembled rather than won. Also in this edition: A satellite goes up to watch plants breathe — and ten items from the World in Brief. Written in-house from primary sources; every source is linked at harunagi.net. Read by a synthesised voice.

Helsinki’s defence ministry describes the arrangement as bilateral cooperation that carries no collective-defence obligation and no share of the cost, and leaves every nuclear decision in Paris. Also in this edition: Bird flu reaches an Australian sea lion, and it reaches it at Seal Bay — and ten items from the World in Brief. Written in-house from primary sources; every source is linked at harunagi.net. Read by a synthesised voice.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention closed its investigation on 11 September. The last illnesses began in mid-August, and the parasite had arrived on processed iceberg lettuce. Also in this edition: Sweden has counted nineteen districts in twenty, and three seats separate the two sides — and ten items from the World in Brief. Written in-house from primary sources; every source is linked at harunagi.net. Read by a synthesised voice.