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BBC World News, I'm Roy Lamad.

People of East Timor are choosing a new head of state in the country's first presidential election since it became independent 5 years ago. Two candidates are in the running to succeed the independence leader Xanana Gusmao, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, Jose Ramos-Horta, and the speaker of parliament, Francisco Guterres. Lucy Williamson reports from the capital Dili.
The sun has come up over this polling station in the center of Dili. Hundreds of people gathered here before the polls opened, and they are continuing to arrive in twos and threes, forming three neat lines into the school building where the poll is being held. There is a quiet determination amongst voters here. It's the first time they've had the chance to vote in a new president since the country became independent five years ago, and turnout is expected to be high.

The former American President Bill Clinton has announced that his charity foundation has negotiated a major deal with two Indian drugs companies to provide much cheaper anti-HIV AIDS drugs to developing nations. The new generic drugs will be made available to more than 60 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. Kenya's Health Minister Charity Kaluki Ngilu said the deal would have a significant impact on her country's ability to treat HIV-AIDS patients.
"The very drugs you provide to people living with HIV and AIDS in New York is also available to people living with HIV and AIDS in Kenya. Making high-quality, desperately needed medicines affordable is an imperative piece of making treatment sustainable."

Iraqi security sources say several children were killed when a US helicopter opened fire on a primary school in Diyala Province, northeast of Baghdad. Eyewitnesses say 6 children have been killed and 6 others injured. Jame Shore reports from Baghdad.
One police officer said the helicopter was shot at from the ground around 10:30 in the morning. The school in the village of al-Nedawat , close to the Iranian border, is said to have been hit when the aircraft returned fire. A spokesman for US forces in Iraq said they did everything possible to avoid civilian casualties, which was why they were taking the reports seriously and conducting an investigation.

Nearly 5 years of torturous negotiations over Northern Ireland have culminated in its political leader's bitter enemies for decades forming a new power-sharing administration. In a brief ceremony before the newly elected Northern Ireland Assembly, the Protestant clergyman Ian Paisley, one of the most hard-line supporters of Northern Ireland's Union with Britain took the oath of office as first minister. He was followed by his Republican deputy Martin McGuinness who was closely associated with the IRA's violent campaign to break the British link and unite the whole of Ireland.

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Negotiations have begun in earnest at the UN over Kosovo 's future with Security Council diplomats meeting to discuss competing proposals. The US and the Europeans have suggested that the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan for supervised independence for Kosovo should be adopted, while Russia disagrees. From UN headquarters, our UN correspondent Laura Trevelyan.
Kosovo's future is the subject of a testy disagreement between Russia on one side and the US and its European allies on the other. The United Nations has run Kosovo since 1999 when NATO bombed Serb forces fighting ethnic Albanian seeking independence from Serbia. Now the Security Council must decide what to do with the UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's plan, which puts Kosovo firmly on the path to independence.

The Serbian President Boris Tadic has strongly criticised the election of an ultranationalist as the speaker of the Serbian parliament. Mr. Tadic said the choice of Tomislav Nikolic was very harmful to the state and threw into question the development of Serbian society.

The US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte has arrived in Colombia at the start of a four-nation tour of Latin America aimed at strengthening regional ties. Mr. Negroponte praised the efforts made by the Colombian government to tackle drugs cartels, and reiterated Washington's support for President Alvaro Uribe, who is currently embroiled in a scandal over alleged links to right wing paramilitary groups.

The White House has renewed its support for the embattled World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz as pressure from European governments for his resignation increased. A White House spokesman said the bank could continue to be effective with Mr. Wolfowitz in charge. But President Bush was not getting personally involved as the discussions going on at present well within the bank.

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