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Iraq’s vice President Tariq al-Hashimi has welcomed a statement by the radical Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, in which he backed a peace plan with rival Sunni groups. The plan is a sign to end sectarian strife. Andrew Bolton reports.

Speaking in a BBC interview, Tariq al-Hashimi , a Sunni, acknowledged that Moktada al-Sadr was the most influential leader of the powerful Mahdi Army militia. But he expressed doubts about his ability to control all its members. Mr. al-Sadr’s statement came as he appeared in public for the first time in several months at a mosque south of Baghdad. One of his senior aids said that the organization had signed a charter with moderate Sunni leaders pledging an independent united Iraq that could be the basis over an agreement with other Iraqi groups.

The leader of the Shiite Hezbollah movement in Lebanon Hassan Nasrallah has urged the government not to storm a Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country where armed Islamic militants have clashed with the Lebanese army. Sheik Nasrallah said Lebanon risked getting dragged into America’s war against Al-Qaeda which he warned could draw in more militants, damage the army and destabilize the country. Sheik Nasrallah said the problem with the Fatah Islam group could be solved politically. “The army is a red line and should not be trespassed, and whoever killed its officers and soldiers should be tried and have a fair trial and should not be forgiven. But at the same time, Nahr el-Bared Camp is a red line. With Lebanese and Palestinian civilians, we can not accept a camp war of this kind.

Israel has kept up its air attacks in the Gaza Strip. The Hamas movement said two people who were killed in the latest attack on a car in Gaza city where its members are on their way to launch rockets into Israel. An earlier air strike took place near the home of the Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh for Hamas, but he was unharmed. The Israeli said he was not the target.

Talks between the President and the Prime Minister of Ukraine have ended after more than three hours amid international concerns over the power struggle in the country. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovich left without any comment. But the presidential spokeswoman said the talks have been constructive and that there would be further discussions. Earlier, President Yushchenko who favors closer ties with the west announced that he was taking personal control of all interior ministry troops. The move was condemned by Mr. Yanukovich who's seen as more pro-Russian. President Yushcenko has said that he hopes a solution could be found. “I am standing for earlier or later a sincere negotiation process that will allow an exit from the situation. In its framework, there will be decisions adopted which may satisfy all of us, or it will be enough for mutual understanding on key issues.”

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The Unites States Defense Department has expressed concern over China’s growing military power. The Pentagon says Beijing is spending far more on its military budget than its admitting and it calls for greater transparency. The Pentagon’s annual report on China’s military says it’s building a greater capacity to launch preventive attacks along its borders. The report also warns that a Chinese missile test in space in January posed a threat to all space fearing nations. China’s military spending is still far behind that of the United States.

There's been international condemnation of the further detention of the Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. Officials went to her home in Rangoon to tell her that she would be under house arrest for a further year.Aung San Suu Kyi has been detained for eleven of the past seventeen years since the Burmese military annulled elections that her party won.

The Danish cyclist and former Tour De France winner Bjarne Riis has admitted using performance enhancing drugs. He told a news conference in Copenhagen that he'd used EPO, a substance that increases the oxygen in blood for five years in the 1990s including the 1996 season when he won the Tour De France.“I was involved in doping, I have taken EPO. It was a part of my daily life during that period. I take the full responsibility myself. I have bought and used it myself.”

A court in Nice in the south of France has delivered verdicts in the case of the killing of a rich British aristocrat, the tenth Earl of Shaftesbury. His estranged wife Jamila M’Barek and her brother Mohammed were found guilty of murder. They were each sentenced 25 years imprisonment and are expected to spend at least 8 years in jail. During a four-day hearing, the prosecution said the killers were motivated by greed for the Earl's multimillion dollar fortune. He was strangled in November 2004.

BBC World News.