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BBC World News with Joe Mackintosh.

The Lebanese army has fired tank and artillery shells into a Palestinian refugee camp during the heaviest internal fight in Lebanon since the civil war ended seventeen years ago. Members of an Islamist group Fatah Al-Islam with alleged links to Al-Qaede are based in the Nahr al-Barad camp. The army says more than 20 of its soldiers were killed in a day of fighting in the camp nearby in the northern town of Tripoli. 20 Islamic militants and several civilians were also killed. The leader of the parliamentary majority Saad Hariri said the violence may have been linked to efforts to set up an international tribunal that would try those accused of killing his father, the former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
"What's happened today was an attempt to kill our soldiers and policemen. This is a blow to Lebanese security. The international tribunal is coming, no one will stop it. This is a conspiracy they're conducting."
In a separate incident, an explosion has killed a woman in the Christian eastern part of the Lebanese capital Beirut.

An Israeli warplane has fired missile into the home of a Hamas leader in Gaza city. The leader, Khalil al-Hayya was not at home when the missile hit, but members of his family are among the dead. More from Cartel Adella in Jerusalem.
Palestinian medical sources say 8 people were killed in the airstrike, most of them members of the extended al-Hayya family. Israel's defense force says it was targeting gunmen on the street it believes were involved in attacks against Israel. It says it's carrying out pinpoint operations at those planning to harm Israeli civilians. But in overcrowded Gaza, innocent bystanders can get caught in Israel's line of fire. Palestinians accuse Israel of carrying out collective punishment.

The World Food Program says an attack on a ship delivering food aid to Somalia has renewed worries about piracy in the area. Supplies to some one million people are said to be threatened. Grunt Ferret reports.
Somalia's poor roads and even worse security make sending in supplies by ship a favoured option. But the country's instability extends to its territorial waters. The World Food Program's representative of Somalia Peter Goossens says of his many worries about the aid efforts, piracy is now the biggest. One freighter which had just delivered relief supplies to a port south of Mogadishu was attacked by pirates on Saturday. One of the ship's security guards was shot dead.

The United States military in Iraq says a roadside bomb killed 6 American soldiers and their interpreter in western Baghdad on Saturday. The troops belong to a unit searching for insurgent weapons. Elsewhere in Baghdad on Sunday, 6 people were killed in 2 separate car bomb attacks, one in the mainly Shiite Suburb of Sadr City, the other near the Interior Ministry.

This is World News from the BBC.

Members of a Muslim seminary in Pakistan have threatened Jihad or holy war if police try to free two policemen they are holding. Students at the Red Mosque seminary in Islamabad kidnapped 4 policemen on Friday and released two of them on Saturday. Now a mosque's spokesman says the remaining 2 policemen will be freed in return for 9 seminary students in government custody.

In Bulgaria, the governing socialist party has suffered a setback in Sunday's elections to the European Parliament. A strong challenge by their coalition partners, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms which represents the large Turkish minority of the opposition citizens for the European development of Bulgaria has left no clear winner. From Sofia, here is Nick Soap.
This election has proved more interesting than many had predicted - a low turnout, barely 30% of the electorate, almost tropical downpours and thunderstorms in parts of the country, and the strong showing for both the Ethnic Turkish Movement and for the mayor of Sofia, Boiko Borissov's new party, Citizens for the European Development of Bulgaria. Former King Simeon's Movement which governed Bulgaria until the last elections came at distant faith.

An opposition leader in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia has been shot dead in the capital Tbilisi. Reports say Guram Sharadze, a former member of parliament and the leader of "Faith, Motherland and Language" party was shot five times. Mr. Sharadze was an ultraconservative Georgian politician who led protests against closer ties with the west.

A gunman in the American city of Idaho has killed 2 people, including a police officer and wounded 2 other people. The gunman fired repeatedly into a courthouse in the town of Moscow near the Canadian border before taking refuge in a church. When police stormed the church, they found a rifle, cartridge and 2 bodies including that of the presumed gunman.

BBC World News.