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President Musharraf of Pakistan says he will fully accept the decision by the Supreme Court to reinstate the chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, whom he had tried to remove from office. Mr. Chaudhry was accused of abusing his office since suspended from duty in March. But the Supreme Court said the move had been illegal and quashed all charges. The lawyer who represented Mr. Chaldery, Aitzaz Ahsan, said that the decision would bolster Pakistan’s legal system and damage Mr. Musharraf.
It will have a positive effect for the independence of the judiciary, for the strengthening of institutions, and for democracy. It's a big blow to the Musharraf regime and government, and it's a big blow to dictatorship.
President Bush has signed new orders on the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. The move follows an intense debate on what is permissible and legal on places like Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, which has been at the center of torture allegations. The White House says the new rules bang all cruel, inhuman and degrading practices. Duncan Kennedy reports from Washington.
President Bush has issued a new executive order to ensure the CIA complies with the Geneva Convention, specifically article-free which deals with the treatment of prisoners. According to a White House spokesman, the new rules ban cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. The Director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, says this gives the agency the clarity it was seeking, so officers can conduct, what he called, their essential work within the laws of the United States.
The United States and EU have halted their attempts to get a consensus on Kosovo at the United Nations, and have called for another four months of direct talks between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.
Britain's UN ambassador, Emyr Jones Parry, said there was no point in putting the fourth US and European draft resolution to a vote, while Russia was still opposing the plan by the UN Special Envoy, Malty Altizalry, for supervising dependence. The French UN ambassador, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, said that a speedy solution was needed.
The people of Kosovo should be given, their opportunity to realize the political and economic development. The timely resolving of Kosovo's status will also enable Serbia move beyond the conflict of the 1990s, and towards a brighter European and new Atlantic future. Therefore we believe that resolving Kosovo's status must be achieved as soon as possible.
Campaigning is ending in Turkey before Sunday's general election, which is seen as one of the most important in the country's history. An early poll was called after the last parliament failed to elect a new president because of disagreements between secular parties and the government, whose leaders have a past in political Islam.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
In Ethiopia, Thirty eight opposition leaders and activists pardoned by the government and released from prison are enjoying their first night of freedom. They've been convicted in 2005 when about 200 people died in a violent protest over the way the elections were held. They were sentenced to life imprisonment last Monday, and pardoned by the president on Thursday after admitting that their attempts to change the government by unconstitutional means had been wrong.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in what's been described as the "biggest ever" protest in Bolivia's main city La Paz, they are angered by a proposal to transfer the executive and legislative branches of government to the city of Sucre. Daniel Schweimler reports.
Bolivia already has 2 capitals; La Paz is only the administrative capital where President Evo Morales has his presidential palace. The constitutional and judicial capital is Sucre; a much smaller colonial city which sits in the center of Bolivia, and neither is even the country's largest city that one belongs to Santa Cruz in the heart of the wealthy oiling gas producing region to the east. Politician Inez said that La Paz was its strong indigenous culture, doesn't fairly represent their interest, and the single capital of Bolivia should be Sucre.
The 7th and last book of the massively popular Harry Potter series has gone on sale and fans who've been queuing outside bookshops for up to 3 days are poring over their fresh copies, to find out the boy wizard's final fate. The book was published at mid-night, British Time, in more than 90 countries and presale orders alone have run to tens of millions. Despite some critics' concerns about the repetitive and pedestrian style of the Harry Potter books, the first 6 novels have sold hundreds of millions of copies and spawned 5 hugely successful films, making JK Rowling the world's first billionaire author.
BBC World News.
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President Musharraf of Pakistan says he will fully accept the decision by the Supreme Court to reinstate the chief justice, Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, whom he had tried to remove from office. Mr. Chaudhry was accused of abusing his office since suspended from duty in March. But the Supreme Court said the move had been illegal and quashed all charges. The lawyer who represented Mr. Chaldery, Aitzaz Ahsan, said that the decision would bolster Pakistan’s legal system and damage Mr. Musharraf.
It will have a positive effect for the independence of the judiciary, for the strengthening of institutions, and for democracy. It's a big blow to the Musharraf regime and government, and it's a big blow to dictatorship.
President Bush has signed new orders on the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects. The move follows an intense debate on what is permissible and legal on places like Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, which has been at the center of torture allegations. The White House says the new rules bang all cruel, inhuman and degrading practices. Duncan Kennedy reports from Washington.
President Bush has issued a new executive order to ensure the CIA complies with the Geneva Convention, specifically article-free which deals with the treatment of prisoners. According to a White House spokesman, the new rules ban cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment. The Director of the CIA, Michael Hayden, says this gives the agency the clarity it was seeking, so officers can conduct, what he called, their essential work within the laws of the United States.
The United States and EU have halted their attempts to get a consensus on Kosovo at the United Nations, and have called for another four months of direct talks between Serbia and Kosovo's ethnic Albanian majority.
Britain's UN ambassador, Emyr Jones Parry, said there was no point in putting the fourth US and European draft resolution to a vote, while Russia was still opposing the plan by the UN Special Envoy, Malty Altizalry, for supervising dependence. The French UN ambassador, Jean-Marc de la Sabliere, said that a speedy solution was needed.
The people of Kosovo should be given, their opportunity to realize the political and economic development. The timely resolving of Kosovo's status will also enable Serbia move beyond the conflict of the 1990s, and towards a brighter European and new Atlantic future. Therefore we believe that resolving Kosovo's status must be achieved as soon as possible.
Campaigning is ending in Turkey before Sunday's general election, which is seen as one of the most important in the country's history. An early poll was called after the last parliament failed to elect a new president because of disagreements between secular parties and the government, whose leaders have a past in political Islam.
You are listening to the World News from the BBC.
In Ethiopia, Thirty eight opposition leaders and activists pardoned by the government and released from prison are enjoying their first night of freedom. They've been convicted in 2005 when about 200 people died in a violent protest over the way the elections were held. They were sentenced to life imprisonment last Monday, and pardoned by the president on Thursday after admitting that their attempts to change the government by unconstitutional means had been wrong.
Hundreds of thousands of people have taken part in what's been described as the "biggest ever" protest in Bolivia's main city La Paz, they are angered by a proposal to transfer the executive and legislative branches of government to the city of Sucre. Daniel Schweimler reports.
Bolivia already has 2 capitals; La Paz is only the administrative capital where President Evo Morales has his presidential palace. The constitutional and judicial capital is Sucre; a much smaller colonial city which sits in the center of Bolivia, and neither is even the country's largest city that one belongs to Santa Cruz in the heart of the wealthy oiling gas producing region to the east. Politician Inez said that La Paz was its strong indigenous culture, doesn't fairly represent their interest, and the single capital of Bolivia should be Sucre.
The 7th and last book of the massively popular Harry Potter series has gone on sale and fans who've been queuing outside bookshops for up to 3 days are poring over their fresh copies, to find out the boy wizard's final fate. The book was published at mid-night, British Time, in more than 90 countries and presale orders alone have run to tens of millions. Despite some critics' concerns about the repetitive and pedestrian style of the Harry Potter books, the first 6 novels have sold hundreds of millions of copies and spawned 5 hugely successful films, making JK Rowling the world's first billionaire author.
BBC World News.
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