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...unanimously approved a plan to send a new peacekeeping force of up to 26,000 troops and police to the Sudanese region of Darfur. The first of them will arrive in October. The UN will have to find funding for the force. Matthew Welth reports in the United Nations in New York.

This was the fourth draft resolution on the new hybrid force for Darfur to be put forward in recent weeks. But this time the Chinese government had given it general approval before the vote was taken, in effect ensuring its passage through the 15-member Security Council. It was passed unanimously. The Sudanese ambassador accepted title wording which limits the practical use of force against militias but still allows for the joint UN and African Union force to protect civilians and aid workers deemed to be under threat in Darfur.

A former three-star general in the United States Army, Philip Kensinger, is being censured over the military's handing of a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan, in which Pat Tillman, an American football star who is enlisted in the US Army was killed. General Kensinger will now be refered to a special review board for a possible demotion. From Washington, Venesy Heney reports.

When Pat Tillman was killed in Afghanistan, American mourned his death. Five months after the tragedy, his family learned he had died in a friendly fire. One man retired Army Lieutenant General Philip Kensinger, who was head of army special operations, has been singled out for punishment. General Kensinger has been found guilty of deception of making false statements about what he knew and when he knew it during the investigations following Pat Tilman's death.

The media tycoon Rupert Murdoch will find out shortly whether he has won control of one of the world's most influential business papers the Wall Street Journal. Mr. Murdoch has bid $5 billion for the paper's parent company Dow Jones in which the Bancroft family has a controlling stake. The journalists are reporting that none family members have now decided to back the deal. The BBC's Mark Gregory explains what their initial reservations were.

Dow Jones, the company that publishes the Wall Street Journal, has been controlled by the Bancroft family, the descendents of the original founder, and they are very much seeing themselves as the guardians of this newspaper's editorial independence so that concern has been that if the Wall Street Journal gets gobbled up by a large international media empire, that / integrity will disappear and there will be particular concerns about Rupert Murdoch, some people have seen that once he takes over a company, whatever editorial guarantees he gives at the time are those disappear.

In a few hours time, the British army will end its longest running military operation supporting the police in Northern Ireland. British troops were first deployed in the province in 1969 after sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics overwhelmed the police.

World News from the BBC.

A senior figure in the German government has strongly criticized plans by the United States to supply more weapons to America's allies in the Middle East. Castern Vote, who coordinates Germany's relations with the US government, said it wasn't weapons that the Middle East lacked but stability. He said it was contradictory of the America to urge countries to pursue democracy while rewarding states like Saudi Arabia with arm sales. The Kingdom has been accused of aiding Sunni insurgents in Iraq and democrats like Geral Nedlor are warning Mr. Bush that Congress will not approve any deal. "The administration must realize that despite it's rally for the country, Saudi Arabia is not our friend. Yes, the Saudi Arabians may present the rosy picture of their own, and they may speak nicely in English, but the facts do not match the fiction of what they are saying. / Arabian will not be repeating in English."

The Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero is due to arrive in the Canary Islands to inspect the damage caused by five days of forest fires. The authorities have evacuated more than 12,000 people in the main islands of Gran Canaria and Tenerife. In Greece, meanwhile, the government has declared a state of emergency in another popular tourist destination, the island chain known as the Cyclades, because of severe water shortages.

A transplant surgeon in California has been charged with attempting to hasten the death of a disabled patient in order to extract his organs. It's believed to be the first case of its kind in the United States. The doctor, Hootan Roozrokh, is accused of having prescribed excessive doses of morphine and sedatives to the 25-year-old man. Dr. Roozrokh's lawyers have described the charges as unfounded.

One of India's best know film actor Sanjay Dutt is beginning a six-year jail term for acquiring guns from bombers who brought carnage to the city of Mumbai. An Indian Court found him guilty of illegally possessing automatic rifle and pistol. His lawyer says he will appeal.

BBC World News.

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