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...series of agreements including plans for defense cooperation and the development of a nuclear reactor for civil use. The French president Nicolas Sarkozy speaking in Tripoli said he wanted to help Libya return to the international community. Ronald Java reports.
These agreements are follow-ups that will activate previous deals signed between Libya and France. The Libyan Foreign Minister Abdelraham Shalgham described the French president's visit as an important one to Libyan-French relations, saying the new agreements will enable both countries to cooperate for the next ten to twenty years.

49 doctors in Kazakhstan have resigned in protest of what they call uNPRecedented pressure on them following an outbreak of HIV among young children who had blood transfusions. 123 toddlers have been tested positive for HIV and ten have died since the virus was discovered in hospitals in the south of the country last September. Last month, 21 medical workers were found guilty of corruption, mismanagement and recklessness. The doctors who've resigned said individuals shouldn't be held responsible for the failure of the region's battered and under-funded healthcare system.

The leader of the Tour de France Cycle Race, the Danish rider Michael Rasmussen, has been sacked by his own team Rabobank and thrown out of the competition. He was said to have given incorrect information of where he trained last month and to have missed random drug tests. Ben Lloyd reports.

Rasmussen had looked confident about holding on to the leader's yellow jersey until the finish in Paris on Sunday. But doubts about Rasmussen's credibility emerged last week when the Danish national cycling team announced it was dropping him from their squad. It said Rasmussen hadn't told Anti-Doping authorities of his whereabouts during the training season.

Iraqi police say at least 50 people were killed and more than 130 injured in two bomb blasts targeting groups of football fans in Baghdad. The fans have been celebrating the Iraqi National Team's victory over South Korea, taking the side into the final of the Asian Cup.

Officials in Afghanistan say one of the South Korean hostages being held by the Taliban for nearly weeks has been found shot dead. A group of more than 20 South Koreans, mostly female Christian charity workers were kidnapped in the central province of Ghazni six days ago. The governor of the province Mirajuddin Pathan told the BBC the hostages would have been safer if they'd notified the government of their movements.
"They have killed one of the hostages and we found the body in the Ghazni province. These Korean nationals, they were riding on a bus without even letting our Ministry of Interior. They didn't contact anyone in our areas, if they want to go there we will ask them to notify us so we can watch them, you know, we provide protection for them. "

World News from the BBC.

The judiciary committee of the US House of Representatives has voted to file a rarely used contempt of Congress charge against two White House aides. It seems as an escalation of a row over executive privilege which president Bush in vote earlier this month to prevent his chief of staff and former legal counsel from complying with subpoenas to testify the Congress over the firing of federal prosecutors.

The Egyptian government has said it is allocating 175 million dollars to extend drinking water networks to all villages and remote areas in the country. The announcement follows weeks of protests in villages in the Nile delta where residents have been complaining about water shortages. From Cairo, H S reports.

Some of the villages in the northern delta have had water problems for years. These have been exacerbated by the summer heat and villagers have been angered by what they described as the indifference of local officials. The announcement that new funds will be allocated to bringing clean water to all villages is not going to mean fast relief. An official said these projects will take time to complete.

An explosion has ripped through a major gas pipeline outside the Russian city of St. Petersburg. There've been no reports of any casualties but witnesses say a large fire is burning. It sounds certain where the gas exports will be affected by the blast although the main pipeline for Russian gas to Europe is well to the south of the site of the blast, a second shipping gas to Finland is in the area. Hundreds of people are reported to be fleeing the scene and the local roads are clogged with traffic.

The Nigerian government has filed criminal charges against the US-based drug manufacturer Pfizer, accusing it of responsibility for the deaths of more than 10 children during trials for a new drug to combat meningitis. The authorities in Abuja say some of the children suffered brain damage or died. Pfizer has denied the allegations.

BBC world News.