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BBC World News with Joe Mackintosh.

On the eve of the first bilateral talks for decades between the United States and Iran, Tehran has protested against the US spying networks it says it has discovered in the country. The Foreign Ministry summoned the Swiss ambassador to Tehran, Philip Volti, to receive the protest on Washington's behalf. What Mon... Monday's talks will concentrate on the security situation in Iraq. From Teh(ran).....(re)ports.

Iran first alleged that the US and its allies in Iraq were running spying networks into Iran on Saturday. Now it's taking the issue one step further by calling in the Swiss ambassador who represents US interests in Tehran in the absence of any diplomatic relations. According the state media, the ambassador heard a strong protest against what Iran called the hostile intervention of the US government. He was told Tehran had unearthed a number of spying networks aiming to infiltrate Iran and carry out sabotage actions in the west, southwest and centre of the country.

There's a big security presence on the streets of Venezuelan capital Caracas as supporters and opponents of President Chavez gather ahead of the controversial closure of a television station, RCTV. President Chavez has accused the station of actively trying to undermine his socialist government and has refused to renew its license. His critics say the move is an attack on free speech, but the Minister of Communications, William Lara insisted that there was no political motive behind the decision.
"It's a lie. The Venezuelan government has not closed down any media outlet, nor it is going to. RCTV's license to broadcast has run out. Don't buy into the lie being spread by the station's owner, who wants to present himself to the international community as a victim, rather than recognize Venezuelan law."

An international team of scientists has developed a faster, more accurate way of finding genes for breast cancer. They say this will lead to the development of a simple blood test to assess individual's risk of developing the disease. Palab Girsh reports.
Searching for genes used to be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Despite decades of research, scientists have found just two of them for breast cancer. Now using a new technique, three international teams have discovered five more in relatively short order. Some doctors believed that within a few months, all the genes involved with the disease will have been discovered. The discovery has been made possible because of a new way of analyzing all the significant parts of the human genome in one goal. It's a technique that is likely to speed the discovery of many more new genes for all common diseases.

The American military in Iraq says it has freed more than forty civilians from what it called an al-Qaede prison, north of Baghdad. The United States military spokesman, Major General William Caldwell said some had been held for months and showed signs of torture and broken bones.

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Hamas has rejected a proposal for a truce with Israel put forward by the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. It said it would continue to defend Palestinian people for as long as Israel carried out military operations in Gaza and the West Bank.

Bulgaria has welcomed the decision of a court in Libya, dismissing a defamation case against five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor. The case was brought by three Libyan police officers and a doctor after the defendants alleged they had been tortured into confessing that they'd infected at least four hundred Libyan children with HIV. From Tripoli, R.J reports.
This is the first victory for the foreign medics' defence lawyers in the numerous trial proceedings that have emerged from this long-standing case. The defamation trial against the five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor ended with the dismissal of the charges in this case. One of the Libyan police officers J.M described the verdict as being weird, claiming that there was a lot of political pressure on this case. But Mr. M was quick to add that the court was just.

Local and regional elections held in most of Spain appeared to have resulted in a virtual dead heat between the governing Socialists and the main opposition -- the conservative Popular Party. With more than ninety percent of the votes counted, both main blocs have won about thirty five percent of the vote and have returned their respective strongholds.

The tiny Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan is holding its second mock election today as it prepares for the first real election in its history next year. The mock polls were ordered by the former King Jigme Wangchuck, who wants Bhutan's seven hundred thousand people to familiarize themselves with democracy.

The top prize of the Cannes Film Festival, the Palm Door, has been awarded to "Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days" as just one film by the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu. It's the story of a woman having an illegal abortion in the last years of Romania.

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Vacabulary

Defamation：n. defaming or being defamed 诽谤；中伤 defamation of character 对品性的中伤
Dead heat: 不分胜负的比赛；同时达到终点